I'm about 30, university educated in Medical Genetics and now Chemistry. I have had jobs as a check-out chick, a secretary/PA, an office worker. I am very good at these and have a very high typing speed. I'm also a good supervisor/trainer. I suck at teaching, so please don't suggest that, I've pretty much closed that door all by myself, although am desperately trying to wedge it open.
I want a job that's either in school term time OR that lets me work 2-3 days a week OR that lets me work from home some of the time.
My hobbies include reading, the aetiology of the English language, cooking, sewing, knitting, fantasy RPGs, BellyBelly. And obviously I like sciencey stuff too, particularly the sub-molecular branches.
The job also has to pay quite well, as we need me on a decent salary to buy a decent house.
Ummm, magician? That would be fun... Don't know about the hours though.
A sciencey-job in a university? As a research assistant or whatever. The money is pretty good, the hours are very flexible, and the working conditions are great.
My DH is an academic, and we moved to this town for his job, so a lot of our friends are uni-based and this is what they do. Some do shifted work weeks, where they work Tues-Sat, some do really early days, like 7-3, some do four day 40 hour weeks, and some are part time. It seems to be very kid-friendly.
You say you don't want teaching, but you also say you are good at training. Have you thought about adult education/training? Teaching adults is different to teaching children so maybe you could look at doing something in that area. In Australia, we have TAFE colleges for adult education, do you have anything like that over there? You could do job training for people to get them back into the workforce etc.
Medical Researcher/Scientist. If your pedantic then that's a plus My sister did a genetic counselling degree and now works in breast cancer research. I did psychology and worked in sleep research, so it's pretty flexible. Basically, if you've got a science degree - apply. Decent wage (casual was around 25-30 an hour for lowest rung as I was just out of uni, I think the ceiling might be somewhere around 70,000?) daytime hours, and a lot of ppl job share. It's a good mix of paperwork and people work, although if you work in a hospital then you gotta deal with Dr's (and their ego's).
i was going to suggest a job within a uni as well. i've worked at one before & thought they were very family-friendly & flexible regarding work/life balance and hours. not sure about in the uk, but here they tend to have great benefits with regards to pension schemes & holidays that balance out wages that tend to be lower than the private sector.
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My sister did a genetic counselling degree and now works in breast cancer research. I did psychology and worked in sleep research, so it's pretty flexible. Basically, if you've got a science degree - apply. Decent wage (casual was around 25-30 an hour for lowest rung as I was just out of uni, I think the ceiling might be somewhere around 70,000?) daytime hours, and a lot of ppl job share. It's a good mix of paperwork and people work, although if you work in a hospital then you gotta deal with Dr's (and their ego's).
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