Dive into jobroles

Whether mucking out the stables or enjoying life in the saddle, horse breeders spend their days looking after horses and ponies. They’re entirely responsible for their health, wellbeing and breeding.

Often working in the shadows, publishers are book professionals. It’s thanks to them we have the novels, cookbooks and school textbooks we all know and love, whether on paper or in digital formats.

A kind of super IT project manager, digital product owners are responsible for designing digital products. They manage teams and divide projects up into various milestones to be completed over days, weeks, months, or even longer.

Video games designers come up with stories, characters and rules. Their job is to create an entirely original, entertaining and captivating universe. A bit like screenwriters, but for gaming.

Criminal Minds, Mindhunter... most of us are familiar with FBI profilers thanks to a never-ending supply of American television series, but we’re perhaps not so used to criminologists, specialist professionals with a vast set of skills.

What stocks should you invest in? Is now a good time to buy or sell? How can you tell? If you want to be certain about your investments – or as certain as you can be – it’s better to have a financial analyst on hand, rather than a crystal ball.

In 2018, over 1,700 million tons of steel were used worldwide... so it’s no overstatement to say we couldn’t do without metallurgists, the researchers who are borderline inventors.

It’s often said they do “the most beautiful job in the world”. Midwives support women throughout their pregnancies and help them give birth.

From a small bed and breakfast to a 5-star hotel, accommodation managers are always a hotel manager’s right-hand. Being able to say to potential customers “sorry, we’re full” is an accommodation manager’s dream!

What would happen if you forgot to get your deeds of sale, your will, or some other important document notarised by a professional? Well, it would be worth nothing. Nada. Zilch. You’d probably need to shred it and start all over again. As public officials, notaries play a key role with life’s important paperwork.

Furniture designers are artists who imagine and create the furniture that fills our lives. Balancing aesthetic ambitions and commercial constraints, they’re inventors with more than one string to their bow.

Highly versatile professionals, social services managers run the organisations that work to support vulnerable people in society, whether they’re medico-educational centres, specialised hostels, children’s homes or shelters for homeless people.

Palaeontologists seek to understand living creatures of the past by studying their fossils. Tyrannosaurus teeth, mammoth tusk or perhaps even a plant fossil? There really is something for everyone!

One of those careers that does what it says on the tin: venture capitalists literally bet on new ventures, investing in startups at various stages of growth in the hope they’ll provide a good return on investment.

“Would you like to see the cocktail menu? . “Ok, but that’s your last drink. Shall I call you a taxi?” A snapshot into the everyday life of a bartender, always there with a big smile on their face, always doing everything they can to make their customers’ day.