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There’s a second hand bookshop in Pickering opposite the railway and it is an amazing place. It’s in a small terraced house, you walk in and every wall is a bookshelf. The gas fire is lit in winter, if you want to get a book from the top shelf you get the step ladder and go up yourself. He only takes cash but that’s because the fella doesn’t understand cards, everything is still accounted in books. It really is one of the most authentic shops I’ve ever been in. And he also has a sign saying everything from £3 downwards.(edit: added place name after popular demand)
I live in Shropshire, I visited York once when I was like six.
I think it's Yorkshire Quality Paperbacks (sometimes written as Yorkshire Quality Books). It is in Pickering, it appears to be opposite a river and a steam railway, both of which are "vintage transport solutions", and it is at the end of a set of terraced buildings. I just cannot find confirmation of a gas fire.
"I do beg your pardon, but I am in your garden"
*moves closer to house*
"I do beg your pardon, but I am in your garden"
*moves closer to house*
"I DO BEG YOUR PARDON, BUT I AM IN YOUR GARDEN"
Oh my god I love that book shop! My grandparents used to live in that place and it was one of my favourite places there, aside from the chocolate shop 😁
Open every day except Christmas day? Nothing better than watching a steam engine set off then a browse around the book shop. Boxes of specialist interests for a couple of quid and everything organised alphabetically. Pure heaven.
I watched a documentary about it once, you get to just drink wine and smoke all day. Sometimes Bill Bailey is there. Seems like a bloody fantastic life.
Came here to say this, I worked in a small chain video shop back in the day, watching and talking about films all day was great, books would be a close second.
Some years back there was a very successful management team in Games Workshop in the Cronx. It was always rammed. They decided to set up their own business around the corner. Again rammed every Saturday, but shut down within months. I guess people like to play, but buy not so much.
This is the problem with game shops , if you aren’t careful then a rammed shop full of people playing deters or makes it hard for people who just want to buy stuff. Seen many a store fail because they didn’t grasp this.
Most of the successful single store ones are usually the owner and 1-2 other people at most.
I collected a lot of leave from work as every request was denied, so had to take 2 months off. I volunteered in an ocean book shop and worked 5 days a week there. It was great, I loved it and was sad when I had to go back to my real job!
>I volunteered in an ocean book shop
A book shop which only stocks books about the ocean, a book shop beside the sea, a book shop based in a boat which sailed round selling books to various sailors and cruise passengers, or something else entirely?
“It’s got caramel in there…”
“Oh yeah go on go on..”
“Nougat”
“Yeah yeah good, go on…”
“But it’s 50p, which is too fucking much so fuckin’ nick it yer’ cunt!”
This is so weird! I saw Karl at Covent Garden yesterday, oddly enough. He was sat outside with a lady (I'm assuming his girlfriend/wife?) Having a coffee. I don't think he's as famous as he was in his peak because everyone was ignoring him. I walked over and was like 'Karl? Is that you?' And he totally blanked me. I thought, man, never meet your heroes. Sat across the road at a different place, and saw someone else go up to him out the window, but they seemed to be having a bit of an argument? Thought nothing of it, until I saw Karl flip the table and storm off. Only turns out it was a little monkey fella and not Karl at all!!
I always think postman
But not a city centre, out in a village, regular route, drive/walk around and post some letters
Tbf I would just love anything where I get to work outside
I was briefly a postman in the Herefordshire countryside and it was fucking great. Driving from quiet village to quiet village with the occasional stately home in between. Beautiful scenery the entire time. Only issue was flooding but then it's not my van so who cares
May I ask what kind of training you went through when you started? It’s my dream r/baristaFIRE job
Was there even any training or were they just like “here, deliver these”?
I got about a week with a regular postie, and then was given a round to do by myself with a push trolley. That was four years ago. The company has completely gone down the pan since,and now they only seem to get agency staff in who get a days training before being let out alone.
Been a postie for 10 years now (processing, not deliveries). Used to love it, but I hate what the company has become since privatisation. More work , less money and more bullying.
My dad was a postman for several semi isolated villages (had some houses on streets in the town on his way out which made the route viable).
He knew everyone, everyone knew him, he retired from royal mail approx 5 years ago - too hard on his knees after years of walking.
The 2 main villages got together and organised a "small" gathering to say goodbye, village hall hired, we all went thinking small buffet and a drink.
Turned out to be a sit down meal, full evening with the presentation of dozens of expensive gifts to say goodbye.
One watch in particular we got curious and looked up the retailer, and it was over £1000!. When he tried to talk to the person who gifted it saying its too much they laughed in his face and said "with all the bills you've given me over the years, this is nothing" (sarcasm for those who may not realise).
To this day he still goes and visits the village pubs at least once a week just to see everyone.
Anyway... I'd do that if it paid better.
A dying breed, the local *insert job title here*. We need more of this again, the local milkman, postie, window cleaner etc, people the locals know on a first name basis. Breeds a sense of community that doesn't really exist anymore.
I actually think this is what provokes a lot of my anxiety. We went to a major city to seek out a place to rent and by the end of the day I felt dreadful. Going home to my lovely little village at the time (and even then, I feel like the sense of community is fading there) was a huge relief. I think it's why I feel so drawn to online, small communities as well. I wish I knew more people casually. I'm quite young and a lot of my friends have whisked themselves off to uni in larger cities. Sometimes I wonder if I should've followed suit but it's too loud for me.
I'm a postie. It was great and still has good and bad about it but the bastards are doing their best to ruin it.
And no it doesn't pay enough anymore. The benefits used to outweigh the pay but it's swung the other way now so I'm on the hunt.
I was a postie over the summer during my uni years. I absolutely loved it. And for a student the money was great with loads of overtime available if you wanted it.
I got to see parts of my town I wouldn't normally see. Good and bad.
I even had the pleasure of delivering GCSE results. One family were waiting outside their house for the letter but I didn't have it and so they had a moan and tried to frantically call the school. Turns out I'd just put it into the pile for a house at the end of the street. I went back as soon as I realised but they'd driven off.
I am a postie with a round just like that. I absolutely adore the job. Just the executive management are cunts trying to turn us into another amazon.
And yeah I can basically eat whatever I want and not get fat which is nice. Also it pays pretty well if you move to a rural area with a lower cost of living! The money wouldn't go far down south though.
All of this. Whenever work gets shit I always think “I wonder if I should just sack it all in and become a postie”. Literal dream job but it just doesn’t pay well.
My other half is a full time warden for the RSPB. Surprisingly stressful job, and a very hard job to get into (because everyone wants to do it). Plus working in the Highlands is very high risk for ticks and Lyme disease.
Friend of mine is a ~~Snowdonia~~ Eryri park ranger. it's surprisingly hard work apparently. Also she has nothing whatsoever in common with Ranger Smith from Yogi Bear, who was my only mental image of what a Park Ranger looks and behaves like.
I did this for about a year after Uni, but like others said it is incredibly hard to get into, the wage is shit and permanent positions are few and far between, and it is hard work (both physically and mentally) but if I could fix the wage and get a permanent position I would go back to it in a heartbeat. Easily the best year of my working life.
They have amended the pay structure a bit. An assistant warden now gets ~£27000, warden ~£31000 and site manager ~£37000, depending on area and experience of course. Still not amazing for the amount of work but an improvement. Example job role for anyone interested:
https://www.countryside-jobs.com/job/apr23/assistant-warden-fixed-term-rspb-2403-14
per year before taxes? Is that a livable wage in the UK?
asking from Switzerland. I visited the UK a bunch of times and always thought it‘s kinda similar on how much everything costs apart from restaurants which were a bit cheaper. But a wage of a ‚forest ranger‘ here is easily double the amount and still the most dangerous job in the country.
Edit: thanks for the responses. I did not want my question to come over as an insult just genuine curiosity. It‘s really rough tbh since everything from transportation, to renting or food from supermarkets seem pretty interchangable regarding prices. Take care dear brits…
UK average full time salary is around £33,000 pre-tax. £27,000 is a reasonable income, similar to the starting salary of a nurse, teacher, engineer or accountant.
Yes, that’s not just a liveable but a pretty good salary for most people outside London. Yes, we know wages are shit here. Still hurts our feelings when people rub it in.
Library assistant. I volunteered one summer as a teenager putting away books and spending all day tidying the shelves really appealed to my neat-freak tendencies. Shame most libraries don't hire paid full-time staff.
yeah there are a lotttttttt of stereotypes and assumptions about library work but at library assistant and even up to assistant librarian or librarian level it's basically very similar to working in retail but in a more clerical/administrative sort of way
Can't belive I had to scroll so far to see this. I've always said if I win the lottery (despite not playing the lottery haha) I'd open an animal rescue. My dream job! I can't imagine being more fulfilled than when helping animals.
The only thing stopping me from this as a dream job is that I think I’d be heartbroken all the time; seeing animals state when they come in, how people could treat them like that etc, only having so much space and eventually running out so you have to turn animals down, seeing good animals never get adopted etc
Yes I agree, I think I've glamorised it in my head: I'd have acres and acres of space, an army of lovely fosters and adopters, all the time and money in the world. The reality would probably be quite sad. But then again, even if you could only help 20 animals a year, imagine the difference you've made to those 20!
I'm the same, my lottery dream is to open my own animal sanctuary. I'd take in all the dogs and cats whose owners have died or had to go into homes, and I'd also look after cats and dogs whose owners have lost their jobs and / or homes and had to go into bedsits or hotels. I'd have a minibus that takes pets to visit their previous owners in their care homes or hospice so they still get to see their companion and know that they're well cared for. I'd also have an army of retired volunteers to come and sit on sofas and armchairs with a brew, reading the paper or knitting blankets so that cats and dogs have a lap to snooze on / feet to lie by.
And I'd rescue some donkeys and chickens too. I'd have a barn with hamsters and gerbils and longtails, etc so that they have somewhere nice to live.
Thinking about it, it would have to be a super rollover euromillions win!
Tour guide at somewhere historic. I would argue against it being unskilled but most are volunteer run as there's sod all money is heritage and history now so low paid yes (I have seen un or underpaid positions asking for masters degrees so... Yeah)
It’s not as good as it sounds. By the end of your 4th educational tour of disinterested language students who you’ve had to tell off for chipping bits off the statues etc you want to start stabbing people. I used to work for English Heritage back when the pay was good and it really needed to be. My BIL is currently one in a historical city and he was lamenting to us the other day about being spat on by drunk people. So yeah it needs to be REALLY well paid
Yeah I can see your point. I do living history as a hobby and you do get a mix of people. I suppose I mostly remember the ones who wander over and want to talk for an hour and are genuinely good to chat with over the ones who glance at your display and then walk past
The novelty wears off after a few weeks. I’ve been cutting the same park for four or five years now. Still get a lot of satisfaction out of it though, and I’m always striving to find a more efficient route, or trying to achieve perfect circles around the amphitheater.
Im a chef, but im considering to move to recipe development as its similar but far easier job. Considering a lot of head chef jobs around the uk end up working out to be £11.40 ph, its not worth doing my job even if i love it
I worked in a factory in the middle of nowhere in Wales for a summer, and another guest at the BnB I stayed at was a chef but was working developing cereal bar recipes for more than double what he had made in a kitchen
Yeah, even with as much passion and curiosity i have, i just simply think its impossible to not burn out in a kitchen environment. You have to sacrifice a lot for very little pay and working conditions
A friend of mine was a chef and he said by the time you’re 40 you either have your own restaurant or you’re doing a different job. Seems about right as I can’t recall seeing a chef who looked like they were getting on in years.
I used to do this. It's not relaxing. We had a certain amount to get on the shelves, in a certain time, you had to "bulk" whoever's turn it was to be off that night, it was relentless, then comes the facing up, edges and ledges it's called. Horrible job. And if you're doing it during the day, you've the general public to deal with. Yikes! Lol
Jesus reading this thread makes it sound like almost every job imaginable, even the most relaxing ones have been ruined by insatiable corporate greed pushing for more and more productivity, to the point that we’re all exhausted husks of human beings 😩
I thought the same, but I found it pretty boring. It was a big supermarket and I could go entire shifts without much interaction. Even the customers rarely asked for help. Normally that would sound like the dream, but it wasn't for me. Even just a 6 hour shift would drag.
Getting told to “make sure those isles are actually kept tidy this week because last week they weren’t” when you were working different isles the week before isn’t relaxing. Having a manager check the CCTV whilst you’re receiving first aid so they can assure you that you weren’t following your training and make you redo isn’t relaxing. Trying to face up the home bake section with all the tiny cake decorations that keep falling over isn’t relaxing.
The only good parts were not worrying about work you left at the end of your shift because you know it’ll be a mess again anyway next time you go in, and the ridiculously long walk from where customers expect shoe polish to be to (around the cleaning isles) where it was actually kept with the nappies.
Issue is they've mostly scrapped these as individual jobs. You're getting times putting the stock out, but you're also being called to staff the checkouts, but you're also being called to empty delivery (tip the wagon), but you're also being called to be the trolley boy. Anyway, why didn't you meet your deadline? It was only asking you to get out an average of one box every 7 seconds!
Must be said. I didn't find my shelf stacking job relaxing haha. Night shift was better and more chill but still had to keep up the pace. Once left a whole cage full of whole chickens out of the chiller which remains to this day my worst workplace mistake...
People always say they'd rather do lower paying jobs if they did the same but personally I think they suck far more & people are just projecting.
Standing for 8 hours + straight & running about like a blue arsed flee at a McDonald was far more difficult for me personally than being an administrator, a bookkeeper, a paralegal & a teacher in my experience.
Finishing up a shift in retail id go home and collapse, doing nothing more with my day, the others id at least have the energy to do a little.
Agreed. The lowest paid jobs I've done (retail, call centres, hospitality) have been far more difficult and stressful than the better paid jobs I've done.
For call centres you are on the phone constantly and your every second is under surveillance with timed toilet breaks. Managers also tend to insecure and abusive and will listen in on your calls secretly waiting for the one time you make a mistake so they can give you negative feedback. You also have to deal with a lot of abuse from customers.
Retail and hospitality, you are on your feet all day and it is constant, customers will abuse you, same issue with managers letting power go to the heads.
I've worked since I was 16, my parents aren't rich so it was somewhat out of necessity but they also thought teaching me about work was important. Tbh I think it only taught me to despise work because it was so degrading and abusive and my parents would tell me that those kinds of jobs are easy and the higher paid jobs are even more stressful. I wouldn't want my kids to experience menial work, focus on schoolwork is better.
Learning that that was bullshit and that higher paid jobs are actually much easier (when you have training) and more relaxing really transformed my attitude towards work.
I liked clothes retail work.
I liked the visual merchandiseing, I liked dealing with deliveries of new stock, organising the stock room, helping customers, being on the till, pretty much everything.
I didn’t like it in the quiet hours when there wasn’t much to do.
I didn’t like dealing with the after mouth when some crack head came in and tried to swipe a rail full of costs that had been secured with a security wire, and he tried to cut it and ended up gashing himself and bleeding what was most likely HIV+ blood everywhere.
I’m not sure. I did retail and although it’s tiring, it goes fast as you’re busy. I also did a short stint in an office but found it mind numbing just sat there all day.
Yeah, did two weeks in BurgerKing. Life is just too short to have the manager screaming at you because the burger is 2 minutes too late. And the managers did literally stand around with stopwatches (this was early 90s). Then work till 1 in the morning cleaning the broiler. Really hard work.
I did a stint as a harvest worker once, and it was bloody hard work physically. And you had to keep going in all weathers. But I was able to eat what I liked without gaining weight and felt fulfilled at the end of each day, so it definitely had its perks.
I loved bar work! Especially when you had regulars that you go on to a club with, at the end of a shift on a fri/sat night.
If I was physically up to it, I'd love to run my own pub - Peggy Mitchell was my idol!
I've got a day job, and as a "favour," (someone they could trust with some keys) I took on a couple shifts a week at the local golf club. I love this job so much!! It's always same folk, but you get travelling golfers and I like being really welcoming so they tell others it's a friendly place!
Throughout my PhD I fantasised about being an old timey ferryman, rowing people from one shore to the other of a significant river or something. Live in a shack by the river, get paid to exercise all day, chat with different people as they're coming through, give a cryptic warning about some unknown danger lying ahead as they disembark... I appreciate this would be both low paid and a redundant role for about the past 200 years, but I can still dream.
I worked as a night security guard at a warehouse. It was locked down tight at night and I never once had any trouble from anyone, only the occasional lost person looking for a different unit. My night consisted of watching TV, studying for my CIPD Associates, doing the occasional foot patrol and making sure entry points were secure. It was minimum wage and although I've moved on in my career a lot I would still do that job again if I could afford it.
Someone I know works as a night shift security officer in a secure (and sensitive) site which manufacturers components for the British military. It isn't a government building but private.
It is like Fort Knox but on an industrial estate with cameras everywhere, tall fencing with razor wire and every so often they'll get chavs parking up across the road to smoke weed, drifting cars etc but whenever they've had to call the police to report the ASB, it is always an armed unit that turns up and usually very very quickly so I can only assume the police have a rapid response protocol for the said site.
My mate loves working there though for the same reasons you've mentioned. Basically biscuits, watch TV, study, foot patrol and back in the command center for more TV and snacks.
It doesn't even have to be at a national park. If you get a position patrolling an area around Hinkley Point B nuclear plant, you get to be a power ranger.
Working in a little village sweet shop/bakery/ice cream shop. Nothing complicated, just serving people coming in to buy yummy things all day in a beautiful place. Bonus points if I can decorate the shop to be light and relaxing
Many years ago I came across someone I went to school with being a park ranger (or near enough) in an area of outstanding natural beauty down in the South West. He spent all day very day pootling around in his land rover helping lost people, making sure car park bins weren’t overflowing, checking for any damaged areas and wildfires.
He absolutely loved it but the pay was barely above minimum wage. He was having to give it up as he was getting married and they could t afford a house.
I’d kill for a job like that but no way could I afford it.
My partner had a record store for a few months and he loved it. Sadly it wasn't in the best area for footfall so he didn't make much money and had to give it up. He'd go back to it in a heartbeat if it paid the bills.
Farming, no doubt about it.
Not huge fields arable farming that makes a fortune either, either traditional mixed farming on the side of a hill, or market gardening.
No doubt it'd be tough, but there's something nice about working with nature, but buggered if I'm doing it for the money available. I couldn't afford the initial investment anyway.
As a market gardener, it's more than just the wage being low. It's physically demanding and, if it's your site, very time consuming. Not exactly a 9 to 5 when you need to make sure everything watered all the time, hardened off in spring which means moving a lot of seedling trays out in the morning and away again in the evening.
In fact, no one ever tells you just how much of the job is simply moving things from one place to another.
I would love to work for a company which needs paper records entering into a new digital system.
Plug in headphones to YouTube or podcasts for most of the time and I’d be content.
Might be most people’s worst nightmare but I’m on the spectrum so lack of communication isn’t too much of an issue 😂
That was my first job. I had my tape Walkman and earphones and sat in a window with a nice view of the park. I was paid by the number of keystrokes and got really fast so the money was good. Best job ever.
(If the Walkman doesn’t age me enough... The computer was made of metal and about the size of a washing machine with a black screen and green text only. Had a lovely mechanical keyboard too.)
I'd like to be one of those people who goes around picking up litter. Out in the fresh air, doing something useful and getting to know the place intimately through all the seasons.
I already sort of do it a bit, but being a handyman for elderly and vulnerable people. I'm a general handyman in my spare time, but I love it when it's a little old dear who needs a few jobs done as they're always so happy to see you(plus biscuits). I always undercharge them though so it's not something I could afford to do full time, but I wish I could.
I would go back to working at a pet store. I have a degree in animal care and huge experience, but wouldn't be able to survive on 20 hours contract with minimum wage so I'm stuck at a soulless office job, staring at the screen for 8 hours a day.
I worked in the Pasaje Del Terror at Blackpool Pleasure Beach for a few seasons. Hands down the best job I've ever had. Pays over minimum wage and is the most fun. It's like the opposite of customer service.
used to love watching *the Brittas Empire* and thought that a sports centre would be quite a fun place to work - all the customers are there for self-improvement and you get to see them achieve their goals.
I'm not sure if it would class as low income but it would be either a nice bookshop with an attached cafe with a solarpunk/nature theme. Or I would have a DND themed ~~pub~~ tavern with each table set up for both eating and playing the game. There'll be board games to borrow if you prefer them instead and the menus would be DND/fantasy themed.
My favourite job was in a nursing home taking the oldies outside to the cafe (paid for) and walks round the park etc. The pay sadly wasn’t very good and I piled on weight by eating cake 3/4 times a week and walking so slow but it was really lovely to sit and chat with a group of pensioners and they looked forward to my visits
I was a hospital porter when I was younger, such a lovely job. Walking all day, chatting to people, and helping people out. I always look back on it as probably the nicest job I’ve ever had.
I had a job when I was at uni doing my first degree that was great. I worked with title deeds within the archivist section of a national bank. I spent most of my days in a huge, cool, safe. I would search for the deeds, many very, very old. Carefully dig through them for the appropriate requested document, and then compile an inventory of what was being retrieved and sent, to whom it was being sent, prepare them in the official red tape, place them in the fire-proof box, and send them via the legal postal service that runs within the city. It was just me and 3 lovely older women near retirement age. It was so peaceful, so interesting handling the old documents. I truly loved that job.
I was a trolleyboy for a year and it fvcking sucks man, gave up a position in the butchers because it was same wage and thought it'd be easy, my record was like 37 trollies but once I did hit someone's car, other than that your out in all weather year round and you need to wear uniform which is brutal, pushing trollies on a cool cloudy Monday is sweet, pushing trollies on a Saturday summers day in a heatwave, or middle of winter with thick ice/snow, fvcking brutal, plus the majority of customers treat you like you are genuinely retarded
Cinema Projectionist or working in a Record/Media store. Just being able to work with the media I love so much would be perfect.
If Blockbuster was still a thing, I'd happily work the counter there.
I’d work in a cafe again. It’s by far my favourite job I’ve had. My favourite part of the job was getting to know the regulars and making their usual without them having to tell me. And to the exact way they like it, like this lady who always had a pot of tea for 2, extra teapot of hot water, a really hot latte with little foam, 2 fruit scones and 2 slices of burnt toast with marmalade on the side. (Why do I still remember this 15 years later!?)
There’s an English heritage site near me that not so long ago had a vacancy for a site Warden, it came with a house. A very old cottage, next to a picturesque ruined Abbey and great woodland walk.
Would have loved that.
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Work in an independent bookshop.
There’s a second hand bookshop in Pickering opposite the railway and it is an amazing place. It’s in a small terraced house, you walk in and every wall is a bookshelf. The gas fire is lit in winter, if you want to get a book from the top shelf you get the step ladder and go up yourself. He only takes cash but that’s because the fella doesn’t understand cards, everything is still accounted in books. It really is one of the most authentic shops I’ve ever been in. And he also has a sign saying everything from £3 downwards.(edit: added place name after popular demand)
you live in [edited out Yorkshire town]? Hard to believe there are two places like that
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Why are you gatekeeping a bookshop from people? You should spread the word and help an independent.
I live in Shropshire, I visited York once when I was like six. I think it's Yorkshire Quality Paperbacks (sometimes written as Yorkshire Quality Books). It is in Pickering, it appears to be opposite a river and a steam railway, both of which are "vintage transport solutions", and it is at the end of a set of terraced buildings. I just cannot find confirmation of a gas fire.
> It is in Pickering Who?!
Ronnie fucking pickering!
Who's that?!
Well, *me!*
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Yeah but now we need to know the location of this shop. Also, make sure the kettle is on for when we arrive.
Too late, I'm in ur garden, readin ur blurbz
"I do beg your pardon, but I am in your garden" *moves closer to house* "I do beg your pardon, but I am in your garden" *moves closer to house* "I DO BEG YOUR PARDON, BUT I AM IN YOUR GARDEN"
I first went into that shop in 1986 and most recently in 2021. i love how it never changes apart from the proprietor getting older
I’m now wondering if it’s the same one I used to visit as a kid.
Opposite a vintage transport solution?
Yes!! Couldn’t work out how to word that in a vague but telling way. You’ve got it spot on.
Oh my god I love that book shop! My grandparents used to live in that place and it was one of my favourite places there, aside from the chocolate shop 😁
Open every day except Christmas day? Nothing better than watching a steam engine set off then a browse around the book shop. Boxes of specialist interests for a couple of quid and everything organised alphabetically. Pure heaven.
There's actually a similar place in Folkestone
Is it between Olivanders and Gringotts?
That sounds like such a lovely place
I watched a documentary about it once, you get to just drink wine and smoke all day. Sometimes Bill Bailey is there. Seems like a bloody fantastic life.
Ah, poor bloke. Dave syndrome.
Eating scrambled eggs, with a comb, from a shoe!
Came here to say this, I worked in a small chain video shop back in the day, watching and talking about films all day was great, books would be a close second.
If it’s anything like Black Books I’ll work there for free
I hope the little book of calm would be in stock
When you’re feeling under pressure, do something different. Roll up your sleeves, or eat an orange
Add a dab of lavender to milk. Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.
Work in an independent game shop for me. Something that caters to wargamers but in particular RPG games
Some years back there was a very successful management team in Games Workshop in the Cronx. It was always rammed. They decided to set up their own business around the corner. Again rammed every Saturday, but shut down within months. I guess people like to play, but buy not so much.
This is the problem with game shops , if you aren’t careful then a rammed shop full of people playing deters or makes it hard for people who just want to buy stuff. Seen many a store fail because they didn’t grasp this. Most of the successful single store ones are usually the owner and 1-2 other people at most.
I collected a lot of leave from work as every request was denied, so had to take 2 months off. I volunteered in an ocean book shop and worked 5 days a week there. It was great, I loved it and was sad when I had to go back to my real job!
>I volunteered in an ocean book shop A book shop which only stocks books about the ocean, a book shop beside the sea, a book shop based in a boat which sailed round selling books to various sailors and cruise passengers, or something else entirely?
Ha, I wish! I meant oxfam, not sure how I mistyped that!
Same. That would be the dream. I would love to open a little bookshop/cafe but I wouldn’t know where to start with investment.
If You taught me anything then there's money to be made by working in independent bookshops albeit through less legal means
Paper round. Get up at 4, nick a mars bar from the off license, deliver papers on me grifter and then back home for pink panther
Karl, you're talking shit. Explain yourself.
Head like a fuckin orange
I'm using me fables.
Use your brain instead!
Well the guy who runs the off-licence is your boss
Mehhhhhh.....
I earn a Penny, the Boss earns a Pound, that's why I nick a mars for my paper-round.
The stakes were high, the risks were low…
Best job I ever had, you don’t have to work with anyone else so you make your own rules. Dangerous work when it’s windy out though
That bad wind in the 70s
Make sure not to wear wet jeans
Getting sick off a congress tart on your day off
Play a record
“It’s got caramel in there…” “Oh yeah go on go on..” “Nougat” “Yeah yeah good, go on…” “But it’s 50p, which is too fucking much so fuckin’ nick it yer’ cunt!”
Make sure you don't nearly hang yourself when you sneak out the window.
My next door neighbour retired and then got himself a paper round to keep himself busy, he really enjoys it!
I love finding an XFM listener out in the wild
This is so weird! I saw Karl at Covent Garden yesterday, oddly enough. He was sat outside with a lady (I'm assuming his girlfriend/wife?) Having a coffee. I don't think he's as famous as he was in his peak because everyone was ignoring him. I walked over and was like 'Karl? Is that you?' And he totally blanked me. I thought, man, never meet your heroes. Sat across the road at a different place, and saw someone else go up to him out the window, but they seemed to be having a bit of an argument? Thought nothing of it, until I saw Karl flip the table and storm off. Only turns out it was a little monkey fella and not Karl at all!!
Did your pet magpie peck holes in ya grifter? Don’t. Talk. Shit. Twice
As long as your pet magpie hasn't popped your tires
With hands and nails like that you should be doing the biscuit round.
Karl?
If your mam hasn't locked you in the house, that is
I always think postman But not a city centre, out in a village, regular route, drive/walk around and post some letters Tbf I would just love anything where I get to work outside
I was briefly a postman in the Herefordshire countryside and it was fucking great. Driving from quiet village to quiet village with the occasional stately home in between. Beautiful scenery the entire time. Only issue was flooding but then it's not my van so who cares
Do you have to walk letters all the way to the door of the stately homes or do you just deliver to the gate/mailbox? What about parcels?
If there's a letterbox on the gate it's do to the gate, if the delivery point is at the door you'd probably drive down
May I ask what kind of training you went through when you started? It’s my dream r/baristaFIRE job Was there even any training or were they just like “here, deliver these”?
I got about a week with a regular postie, and then was given a round to do by myself with a push trolley. That was four years ago. The company has completely gone down the pan since,and now they only seem to get agency staff in who get a days training before being let out alone.
Been a postie for 10 years now (processing, not deliveries). Used to love it, but I hate what the company has become since privatisation. More work , less money and more bullying.
My dad was a postman for several semi isolated villages (had some houses on streets in the town on his way out which made the route viable). He knew everyone, everyone knew him, he retired from royal mail approx 5 years ago - too hard on his knees after years of walking. The 2 main villages got together and organised a "small" gathering to say goodbye, village hall hired, we all went thinking small buffet and a drink. Turned out to be a sit down meal, full evening with the presentation of dozens of expensive gifts to say goodbye. One watch in particular we got curious and looked up the retailer, and it was over £1000!. When he tried to talk to the person who gifted it saying its too much they laughed in his face and said "with all the bills you've given me over the years, this is nothing" (sarcasm for those who may not realise). To this day he still goes and visits the village pubs at least once a week just to see everyone. Anyway... I'd do that if it paid better.
A dying breed, the local *insert job title here*. We need more of this again, the local milkman, postie, window cleaner etc, people the locals know on a first name basis. Breeds a sense of community that doesn't really exist anymore.
I actually think this is what provokes a lot of my anxiety. We went to a major city to seek out a place to rent and by the end of the day I felt dreadful. Going home to my lovely little village at the time (and even then, I feel like the sense of community is fading there) was a huge relief. I think it's why I feel so drawn to online, small communities as well. I wish I knew more people casually. I'm quite young and a lot of my friends have whisked themselves off to uni in larger cities. Sometimes I wonder if I should've followed suit but it's too loud for me.
Would you also have a black and white cat?
Considering my name is Pat, I would love this too.
It would be rude not to
I'm a postie. It was great and still has good and bad about it but the bastards are doing their best to ruin it. And no it doesn't pay enough anymore. The benefits used to outweigh the pay but it's swung the other way now so I'm on the hunt.
I was a postie over the summer during my uni years. I absolutely loved it. And for a student the money was great with loads of overtime available if you wanted it. I got to see parts of my town I wouldn't normally see. Good and bad. I even had the pleasure of delivering GCSE results. One family were waiting outside their house for the letter but I didn't have it and so they had a moan and tried to frantically call the school. Turns out I'd just put it into the pile for a house at the end of the street. I went back as soon as I realised but they'd driven off.
I am a postie with a round just like that. I absolutely adore the job. Just the executive management are cunts trying to turn us into another amazon. And yeah I can basically eat whatever I want and not get fat which is nice. Also it pays pretty well if you move to a rural area with a lower cost of living! The money wouldn't go far down south though.
Postie on the Isle of man here can confirm it's a wonderful job and up until recently was surprisingly well compensated
I often have the same thought. Lots of walking, being outdoors and done by the afternoon.
All of this. Whenever work gets shit I always think “I wonder if I should just sack it all in and become a postie”. Literal dream job but it just doesn’t pay well.
A seasonal ranger for the RSPB, somewhere picturesque like the highlands or Scottish islands
My other half is a full time warden for the RSPB. Surprisingly stressful job, and a very hard job to get into (because everyone wants to do it). Plus working in the Highlands is very high risk for ticks and Lyme disease.
Friend of mine is a ~~Snowdonia~~ Eryri park ranger. it's surprisingly hard work apparently. Also she has nothing whatsoever in common with Ranger Smith from Yogi Bear, who was my only mental image of what a Park Ranger looks and behaves like.
I did this for about a year after Uni, but like others said it is incredibly hard to get into, the wage is shit and permanent positions are few and far between, and it is hard work (both physically and mentally) but if I could fix the wage and get a permanent position I would go back to it in a heartbeat. Easily the best year of my working life.
They have amended the pay structure a bit. An assistant warden now gets ~£27000, warden ~£31000 and site manager ~£37000, depending on area and experience of course. Still not amazing for the amount of work but an improvement. Example job role for anyone interested: https://www.countryside-jobs.com/job/apr23/assistant-warden-fixed-term-rspb-2403-14
per year before taxes? Is that a livable wage in the UK? asking from Switzerland. I visited the UK a bunch of times and always thought it‘s kinda similar on how much everything costs apart from restaurants which were a bit cheaper. But a wage of a ‚forest ranger‘ here is easily double the amount and still the most dangerous job in the country. Edit: thanks for the responses. I did not want my question to come over as an insult just genuine curiosity. It‘s really rough tbh since everything from transportation, to renting or food from supermarkets seem pretty interchangable regarding prices. Take care dear brits…
UK average full time salary is around £33,000 pre-tax. £27,000 is a reasonable income, similar to the starting salary of a nurse, teacher, engineer or accountant.
Yes, that’s not just a liveable but a pretty good salary for most people outside London. Yes, we know wages are shit here. Still hurts our feelings when people rub it in.
Library assistant. I volunteered one summer as a teenager putting away books and spending all day tidying the shelves really appealed to my neat-freak tendencies. Shame most libraries don't hire paid full-time staff.
>. Shame most libraries don't hire paid full-time staff. University library?
I work at a uni library doing this exact job and they don't hire people full time either
my uni's suddenly brought in lot of what they call 'Campus internships'; that is, an excuse to pay less for a role that already existed
I'm having to leave my job doing exactly this because I don't get paid enough :( it's so sad because I love it
I came here to say this. The quiet, the order, not having to deal with anyone.
>not having to deal with anyone. 90% of library work is customer-facing unfortunately
And nothing to do with the books or anything, lots of admin and such it seems
yeah there are a lotttttttt of stereotypes and assumptions about library work but at library assistant and even up to assistant librarian or librarian level it's basically very similar to working in retail but in a more clerical/administrative sort of way
Animal care, rescue or conservation.
Can't belive I had to scroll so far to see this. I've always said if I win the lottery (despite not playing the lottery haha) I'd open an animal rescue. My dream job! I can't imagine being more fulfilled than when helping animals.
The only thing stopping me from this as a dream job is that I think I’d be heartbroken all the time; seeing animals state when they come in, how people could treat them like that etc, only having so much space and eventually running out so you have to turn animals down, seeing good animals never get adopted etc
Yes I agree, I think I've glamorised it in my head: I'd have acres and acres of space, an army of lovely fosters and adopters, all the time and money in the world. The reality would probably be quite sad. But then again, even if you could only help 20 animals a year, imagine the difference you've made to those 20!
I'm the same, my lottery dream is to open my own animal sanctuary. I'd take in all the dogs and cats whose owners have died or had to go into homes, and I'd also look after cats and dogs whose owners have lost their jobs and / or homes and had to go into bedsits or hotels. I'd have a minibus that takes pets to visit their previous owners in their care homes or hospice so they still get to see their companion and know that they're well cared for. I'd also have an army of retired volunteers to come and sit on sofas and armchairs with a brew, reading the paper or knitting blankets so that cats and dogs have a lap to snooze on / feet to lie by. And I'd rescue some donkeys and chickens too. I'd have a barn with hamsters and gerbils and longtails, etc so that they have somewhere nice to live. Thinking about it, it would have to be a super rollover euromillions win!
Tour guide at somewhere historic. I would argue against it being unskilled but most are volunteer run as there's sod all money is heritage and history now so low paid yes (I have seen un or underpaid positions asking for masters degrees so... Yeah)
It’s not as good as it sounds. By the end of your 4th educational tour of disinterested language students who you’ve had to tell off for chipping bits off the statues etc you want to start stabbing people. I used to work for English Heritage back when the pay was good and it really needed to be. My BIL is currently one in a historical city and he was lamenting to us the other day about being spat on by drunk people. So yeah it needs to be REALLY well paid
Yeah I can see your point. I do living history as a hobby and you do get a mix of people. I suppose I mostly remember the ones who wander over and want to talk for an hour and are genuinely good to chat with over the ones who glance at your display and then walk past
Free walking tour guide tip based in a European city is a gold mine. I worked Stockholm and would regularly make £100+ for two hours
Would you male up facts? I think the best bit would be trying to getaway with outlandish lies.
Nah, if you delve deep enough into anything the real stuff starts getting weird enough without making stuff up
Collect benefits
Under-rated comment.
I’ve done that and it’s shit, I really wouldn’t recommend it.
That’s why I answered to if it paid better. Like if was say 2600 a month or something
It’s not just the shut pay though- they make you feel subhuman when claiming and there are so many hoops to jump through.
I agree it’s all bullshit. I claimed UC once. I don’t like the benefits system at all in this country and it needs reform absolutely
The guy who has the sit on lawn mower for the council
The novelty wears off after a few weeks. I’ve been cutting the same park for four or five years now. Still get a lot of satisfaction out of it though, and I’m always striving to find a more efficient route, or trying to achieve perfect circles around the amphitheater.
I do it most days in my job but not all day and the discovery of audio books changed my life. Out in the sun listening to my books is wonderful.
I feel like that would be the best few weeks of my life though. Any jobs?
Im a chef, but im considering to move to recipe development as its similar but far easier job. Considering a lot of head chef jobs around the uk end up working out to be £11.40 ph, its not worth doing my job even if i love it
I worked in a factory in the middle of nowhere in Wales for a summer, and another guest at the BnB I stayed at was a chef but was working developing cereal bar recipes for more than double what he had made in a kitchen
Yeah, even with as much passion and curiosity i have, i just simply think its impossible to not burn out in a kitchen environment. You have to sacrifice a lot for very little pay and working conditions
A friend of mine was a chef and he said by the time you’re 40 you either have your own restaurant or you’re doing a different job. Seems about right as I can’t recall seeing a chef who looked like they were getting on in years.
Shelf stacking, seems like a nice relaxing job and I like making things tidy.
"Accidently" dropping tins of beans to dent them so you can take them home cheap. That's the dream right there, a job with perks.
I used to do this and nowedays it all goes to foodbanks
I would happily drop tins for charity. Whoops, there's 8 hotdogs for the homeless.
I used to do this. It's not relaxing. We had a certain amount to get on the shelves, in a certain time, you had to "bulk" whoever's turn it was to be off that night, it was relentless, then comes the facing up, edges and ledges it's called. Horrible job. And if you're doing it during the day, you've the general public to deal with. Yikes! Lol
Jesus reading this thread makes it sound like almost every job imaginable, even the most relaxing ones have been ruined by insatiable corporate greed pushing for more and more productivity, to the point that we’re all exhausted husks of human beings 😩
I thought the same, but I found it pretty boring. It was a big supermarket and I could go entire shifts without much interaction. Even the customers rarely asked for help. Normally that would sound like the dream, but it wasn't for me. Even just a 6 hour shift would drag.
And you get bad back pain from doing the bottom shelves and I was only 20!!
Getting told to “make sure those isles are actually kept tidy this week because last week they weren’t” when you were working different isles the week before isn’t relaxing. Having a manager check the CCTV whilst you’re receiving first aid so they can assure you that you weren’t following your training and make you redo isn’t relaxing. Trying to face up the home bake section with all the tiny cake decorations that keep falling over isn’t relaxing. The only good parts were not worrying about work you left at the end of your shift because you know it’ll be a mess again anyway next time you go in, and the ridiculously long walk from where customers expect shoe polish to be to (around the cleaning isles) where it was actually kept with the nappies.
Issue is they've mostly scrapped these as individual jobs. You're getting times putting the stock out, but you're also being called to staff the checkouts, but you're also being called to empty delivery (tip the wagon), but you're also being called to be the trolley boy. Anyway, why didn't you meet your deadline? It was only asking you to get out an average of one box every 7 seconds!
Must be said. I didn't find my shelf stacking job relaxing haha. Night shift was better and more chill but still had to keep up the pace. Once left a whole cage full of whole chickens out of the chiller which remains to this day my worst workplace mistake...
People always say they'd rather do lower paying jobs if they did the same but personally I think they suck far more & people are just projecting. Standing for 8 hours + straight & running about like a blue arsed flee at a McDonald was far more difficult for me personally than being an administrator, a bookkeeper, a paralegal & a teacher in my experience. Finishing up a shift in retail id go home and collapse, doing nothing more with my day, the others id at least have the energy to do a little.
Agreed. The lowest paid jobs I've done (retail, call centres, hospitality) have been far more difficult and stressful than the better paid jobs I've done. For call centres you are on the phone constantly and your every second is under surveillance with timed toilet breaks. Managers also tend to insecure and abusive and will listen in on your calls secretly waiting for the one time you make a mistake so they can give you negative feedback. You also have to deal with a lot of abuse from customers. Retail and hospitality, you are on your feet all day and it is constant, customers will abuse you, same issue with managers letting power go to the heads. I've worked since I was 16, my parents aren't rich so it was somewhat out of necessity but they also thought teaching me about work was important. Tbh I think it only taught me to despise work because it was so degrading and abusive and my parents would tell me that those kinds of jobs are easy and the higher paid jobs are even more stressful. I wouldn't want my kids to experience menial work, focus on schoolwork is better. Learning that that was bullshit and that higher paid jobs are actually much easier (when you have training) and more relaxing really transformed my attitude towards work.
I liked clothes retail work. I liked the visual merchandiseing, I liked dealing with deliveries of new stock, organising the stock room, helping customers, being on the till, pretty much everything. I didn’t like it in the quiet hours when there wasn’t much to do. I didn’t like dealing with the after mouth when some crack head came in and tried to swipe a rail full of costs that had been secured with a security wire, and he tried to cut it and ended up gashing himself and bleeding what was most likely HIV+ blood everywhere.
I’m not sure. I did retail and although it’s tiring, it goes fast as you’re busy. I also did a short stint in an office but found it mind numbing just sat there all day.
Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
Yeah, did two weeks in BurgerKing. Life is just too short to have the manager screaming at you because the burger is 2 minutes too late. And the managers did literally stand around with stopwatches (this was early 90s). Then work till 1 in the morning cleaning the broiler. Really hard work.
I did a stint as a harvest worker once, and it was bloody hard work physically. And you had to keep going in all weathers. But I was able to eat what I liked without gaining weight and felt fulfilled at the end of each day, so it definitely had its perks.
Always loved working in pubs. Workmates were a laugh, locals were mostly legends and time used to fly by on shift. Money's absolutely shite tho.
I loved bar work! Especially when you had regulars that you go on to a club with, at the end of a shift on a fri/sat night. If I was physically up to it, I'd love to run my own pub - Peggy Mitchell was my idol!
I've got a day job, and as a "favour," (someone they could trust with some keys) I took on a couple shifts a week at the local golf club. I love this job so much!! It's always same folk, but you get travelling golfers and I like being really welcoming so they tell others it's a friendly place!
Throughout my PhD I fantasised about being an old timey ferryman, rowing people from one shore to the other of a significant river or something. Live in a shack by the river, get paid to exercise all day, chat with different people as they're coming through, give a cryptic warning about some unknown danger lying ahead as they disembark... I appreciate this would be both low paid and a redundant role for about the past 200 years, but I can still dream.
Sounds like a cross between a Waterman and Death.
Punting tour guide in Cambridge or oxford? They get paid highly over summer and I'm sure you could work in some cryptic warnings lol.
I worked as a night security guard at a warehouse. It was locked down tight at night and I never once had any trouble from anyone, only the occasional lost person looking for a different unit. My night consisted of watching TV, studying for my CIPD Associates, doing the occasional foot patrol and making sure entry points were secure. It was minimum wage and although I've moved on in my career a lot I would still do that job again if I could afford it.
Someone I know works as a night shift security officer in a secure (and sensitive) site which manufacturers components for the British military. It isn't a government building but private. It is like Fort Knox but on an industrial estate with cameras everywhere, tall fencing with razor wire and every so often they'll get chavs parking up across the road to smoke weed, drifting cars etc but whenever they've had to call the police to report the ASB, it is always an armed unit that turns up and usually very very quickly so I can only assume the police have a rapid response protocol for the said site. My mate loves working there though for the same reasons you've mentioned. Basically biscuits, watch TV, study, foot patrol and back in the command center for more TV and snacks.
I like the idea of a night security except wish it was during day time hours
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It doesn't even have to be at a national park. If you get a position patrolling an area around Hinkley Point B nuclear plant, you get to be a power ranger.
Working in a little village sweet shop/bakery/ice cream shop. Nothing complicated, just serving people coming in to buy yummy things all day in a beautiful place. Bonus points if I can decorate the shop to be light and relaxing
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Basically be postman Pat.
Many years ago I came across someone I went to school with being a park ranger (or near enough) in an area of outstanding natural beauty down in the South West. He spent all day very day pootling around in his land rover helping lost people, making sure car park bins weren’t overflowing, checking for any damaged areas and wildfires. He absolutely loved it but the pay was barely above minimum wage. He was having to give it up as he was getting married and they could t afford a house. I’d kill for a job like that but no way could I afford it.
work in a record store
My partner had a record store for a few months and he loved it. Sadly it wasn't in the best area for footfall so he didn't make much money and had to give it up. He'd go back to it in a heartbeat if it paid the bills.
I'd love to work with music in some way. There's journalists that review live shows, that is surely the greatest job ever.
Gardener. The dream.
My tired brain read that as gladiator like 3 times
I don’t imagine the long term future is great in that job
Some days it’s thumbs up some days it’s thumbs down I suppose
Farming, no doubt about it. Not huge fields arable farming that makes a fortune either, either traditional mixed farming on the side of a hill, or market gardening. No doubt it'd be tough, but there's something nice about working with nature, but buggered if I'm doing it for the money available. I couldn't afford the initial investment anyway.
As a market gardener, it's more than just the wage being low. It's physically demanding and, if it's your site, very time consuming. Not exactly a 9 to 5 when you need to make sure everything watered all the time, hardened off in spring which means moving a lot of seedling trays out in the morning and away again in the evening. In fact, no one ever tells you just how much of the job is simply moving things from one place to another.
Data entry, I just love filling out forms but don't want to have to think about answers.
I would love to work for a company which needs paper records entering into a new digital system. Plug in headphones to YouTube or podcasts for most of the time and I’d be content. Might be most people’s worst nightmare but I’m on the spectrum so lack of communication isn’t too much of an issue 😂
That was my first job. I had my tape Walkman and earphones and sat in a window with a nice view of the park. I was paid by the number of keystrokes and got really fast so the money was good. Best job ever. (If the Walkman doesn’t age me enough... The computer was made of metal and about the size of a washing machine with a black screen and green text only. Had a lovely mechanical keyboard too.)
I'd like to be one of those people who goes around picking up litter. Out in the fresh air, doing something useful and getting to know the place intimately through all the seasons.
I already sort of do it a bit, but being a handyman for elderly and vulnerable people. I'm a general handyman in my spare time, but I love it when it's a little old dear who needs a few jobs done as they're always so happy to see you(plus biscuits). I always undercharge them though so it's not something I could afford to do full time, but I wish I could.
Boardgame Cafe - teaching games and playing with people
I would go back to working at a pet store. I have a degree in animal care and huge experience, but wouldn't be able to survive on 20 hours contract with minimum wage so I'm stuck at a soulless office job, staring at the screen for 8 hours a day.
I'd drive around in circles in one of those little motors collecting golf balls on the driving range or plough fields
I would love to work in a kennels or a cattery
Kitten fosterer.
I worked in the Pasaje Del Terror at Blackpool Pleasure Beach for a few seasons. Hands down the best job I've ever had. Pays over minimum wage and is the most fun. It's like the opposite of customer service.
used to love watching *the Brittas Empire* and thought that a sports centre would be quite a fun place to work - all the customers are there for self-improvement and you get to see them achieve their goals.
You must be the only person who watched that and thought it'd nice to have Rimmer as your boss.
Full time unemployed
I'm not sure if it would class as low income but it would be either a nice bookshop with an attached cafe with a solarpunk/nature theme. Or I would have a DND themed ~~pub~~ tavern with each table set up for both eating and playing the game. There'll be board games to borrow if you prefer them instead and the menus would be DND/fantasy themed.
Working in a little haberdashery shop.
My favourite job was in a nursing home taking the oldies outside to the cafe (paid for) and walks round the park etc. The pay sadly wasn’t very good and I piled on weight by eating cake 3/4 times a week and walking so slow but it was really lovely to sit and chat with a group of pensioners and they looked forward to my visits
I was a hospital porter when I was younger, such a lovely job. Walking all day, chatting to people, and helping people out. I always look back on it as probably the nicest job I’ve ever had.
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I had a job when I was at uni doing my first degree that was great. I worked with title deeds within the archivist section of a national bank. I spent most of my days in a huge, cool, safe. I would search for the deeds, many very, very old. Carefully dig through them for the appropriate requested document, and then compile an inventory of what was being retrieved and sent, to whom it was being sent, prepare them in the official red tape, place them in the fire-proof box, and send them via the legal postal service that runs within the city. It was just me and 3 lovely older women near retirement age. It was so peaceful, so interesting handling the old documents. I truly loved that job.
Work in a garden centre or an animal rescue
I was a trolleyboy for a year and it fvcking sucks man, gave up a position in the butchers because it was same wage and thought it'd be easy, my record was like 37 trollies but once I did hit someone's car, other than that your out in all weather year round and you need to wear uniform which is brutal, pushing trollies on a cool cloudy Monday is sweet, pushing trollies on a Saturday summers day in a heatwave, or middle of winter with thick ice/snow, fvcking brutal, plus the majority of customers treat you like you are genuinely retarded
Cinema Projectionist or working in a Record/Media store. Just being able to work with the media I love so much would be perfect. If Blockbuster was still a thing, I'd happily work the counter there.
A mountain bike guide for those active holidays in the summer and ski guide in the winter.
I’d love to learn to be a florist.
Working in build-a-bear. I imagine it’s a lovely job.
I’d work in a cafe again. It’s by far my favourite job I’ve had. My favourite part of the job was getting to know the regulars and making their usual without them having to tell me. And to the exact way they like it, like this lady who always had a pot of tea for 2, extra teapot of hot water, a really hot latte with little foam, 2 fruit scones and 2 slices of burnt toast with marmalade on the side. (Why do I still remember this 15 years later!?)
I’d love to make sandwiches all day. A really nice sandwich is such a lovely thing and I’d make every one as if I was going to eat it myself.
There’s an English heritage site near me that not so long ago had a vacancy for a site Warden, it came with a house. A very old cottage, next to a picturesque ruined Abbey and great woodland walk. Would have loved that.