What does your OH do for a living?

Self employed gardener. Best thing he ever did starting on his own.
He is not just a guy with a mower. He did 3 years at college.

Ahh, IIRC it's the same firm my H works for as a forensic accountant! Although he's never actually in Canary Wharf except for maybe a dozen days a year.

He's been off work for quite a while with mental health problems. Which I don't really recommend as a career choice...

He's been getting better slowly and is now ready to return to work, so I'm very proud of him for that. Now if only there were jobs for him to apply for.

H is a mechanic and currently working for the McLaren formula 1 team... He loves it but spends waaaay too much time away from home (last race of the season this weekend though, hooray!) In a couple of years he wants to set up his own business where he can tinker with (super) cars all day at his leisure.

Management accountant for an insurance company. I have suggested he becomes a forensic accountant as l think he would be really good at it.

H loves it. He investigates things and doesn't just look at numbers all day. Seems much more interesting to me than being any other kind of accountant.

Ooo some interesting careers there ladies. Mine resigned from his engineering supervisor role with performance exhausts before our honeymoon. He's now a qualified fitness instructor training to be a personal trainer.

All of these exciting careers make my OH look boring!

His degree is in Geology but he is currently working as a claims coordinator for a local insurance company (he's been so busy since the 'great storm of 2013'!). His aim to work his way through the company and train as a surveyor. Failing that he will ditch me and move to Australia to work with the gold mines

H is a chef.

Errr he's into computery stuff. Looking after virtual data centres for BT.

Mine works for of the big banks based in CW.

Horace - career changes are so tough, and working your way up as well. Is his job relatively stable? I would hate for me or my H to have a career change at this time in our lives but you got to do what feels right for you. My H doesn't see himself staying in same role until he retires, but I think it's so had to leave

Prior to his stroke he worked for phones 4 u.. don't know when or if he will ever return to work.. your hubbies all have intresting jobs

I actually have no idea what OH does. I know who he works for, I know his job title is data something manager , I know he's been there for 19 years and he goes to lots of meetings and makes lots of phone calls and gets lots of emails but that's about it.

Mine has his fingers in many pies.

Wedding planner/event manager, choreographer, stylist, agent, trainer and has his own brand of luxury toiletries........all a bit gay for your OH I'm sure! ?

Clairehj, so true, H's job is less stable than it was before the recession. But it is soul destroying seeing him so fed up ? I feel like it is the lesser of two evils in the long run. So tricky though!

Everyone's OH's Jobs are so diverse!

Never say never funky! ?

Mine is an engineer in the print trade

My OH is a business manager in the motor trade-basically he's a car salesman, but now sells finance rather than the cars!

If he wasn't gay I'd say that's an ideal man!

Mines in the forces. Just don't even go there...

Mine works for the local zoo, keepering. He also works part time as a gamekeeper at a local phesant/partridge shoot. He's an animals kinda guy, having been raised on a farm.

Amazon cloud services tech lead at News Uk (formally called News International).

Dont ask me what that means... I just know that's his job title!

My H is a forklift instructor

He is an immigration officer at the Home Office.

My H is a "Data Quality Specialist" for an exam board. He spends all day messing around with spreadsheets and databases, running reports and doing presentations. He's desperate for a job as an Analyst though. Even more spreadsheets!

He's an IT systems architect for a multinational IT company

My OH is an artisan. He designs and makes furniture. When between commissions he does support work with young adults with learning/behavioural disorders.

He's a Graduate Studies Assistant at Oxford University and hates it - he's really creative and would love to do something like being a designer but can't face retraining.

He is a Youth Worker- his contract is up and they have no more funding so he is job hunting quite frantically.

I think that's quite similar to what my OH does!

I just nod a smile at most things, but I've become quite a techie by accident (I absorb some of it even whilst nodding and smiling)

Mine is a policeman.

A few policemen it seems - I would quite like OH to join the police but he didn't seem keen when I suggested it to him!