I've worked in retail mostly and unfortunately, I'm in the same predicament as you Pike in that the company I am working for is a sinking ship. I am not however the ships captain and therefore I will not be going down with that ship. I'm looking for other working arrangements and unfortunately for me one of the more obvious ones to look in to is actually going back a step or two and seeing if one of the local supermarkets, Marks and Spencer or Sainsbury's would be willing to take me on full time. Ironically even though I've just been promoted in the last few months my pay would probably come up the same with some additional benefits such as cheaper meals at work, lack of travel needed and pay that would definitely increase each year following the inflation trends etc I would however hate the job and that too might just be what I need because I will definitely devote time to leaving that field if I end up in there again.

Other job types I have had over the past 10 years include:

Waiting tables, I actually enjoyed it for the most part, it's fast, furious and there is always something to do. I never once complained as a waiter that I was bored or had nothing left to take care off, whether it was cleaning the tables, polishing cutlery, filling the condiments, checking the salad bar, cleaning the drinks bar, cleaning the pot-wash down or whatever there's always work and I hate standing around doing sweet smurf all more than anything else in the world, even when getting paid for it. Tips were also always a pleasant bonus here, I could most weeks live off my tips alone thus saving the full extent of my wage packet for good times. Of course at the time my bills were a hell of a lot lower. The downsides to this job are simple; the hours suck, they're nearly always flexible and that means you could end up working almost no time in a week but the next week work for in excess of 80 hours! Pay is usually on the minimum wage and doesn't increase often. Some customers are smurfing atrociously behaved and deserve to be slapped but you can't because they're customers.

I spent the latter half of a summer working in a bicycle store. Considering the bikes we sold were sports and extreme sports bmx models and the cost of one of these bad boys (upwards of £500 for a basic model from a reputable brand, for a good model people will spend over £1000 on their bike) most parents purchase the bike extremely early before Christmas so that by Christmas it's all paid for and there's no delays in getting it. Also all parents want a bike brought for their kids to be built, ready and there to go immediately. Kids don't have the patience to wait. My job wasn't shop floor I was back of house upstairs in their warehouse rooms building the bikes it was good fun especially since we had to test the bikes as we built them to ensure they wouldn't come apart under the use they were built for. To this end there was a box and a couple of quarter pipes up there in one end of the room we'd wrap the frames in soft padding so no harm could come to them and ride them around. I will state now; the pay was smurfing terrible.

Working as a Car Cleaner! Ok this was with my brother when he did car cleaning or should we be posh and call it "valeting" lol. Well it was outdoors which is a big change for me, usually I'm indoors outta the elements and even in the summer it was pretty cold in the mornings I learnt the value of thermals doing this in the winter with him. Money is surprisingly good tbf depending on how quick you can clean cars and what the weather is like. My brother cleaned for Ford and Jaguar and a couple of other car brokers in their showrooms all over East Anglia so we always got work which was great.

Worked as an office cleaner. When my Mom's arthritis first started getting bad, she worked as a cleaner and did office cleaning. She couldn't manage the offices alone and so usually I'd end up volunteering to go along with her and help her with the stuff she couldn't do. Her boss after about a month of me doing this on at least a weekly basis actually offered to make it official so I got paid the same as my Mom.

I've had a fair few jobs tbf, wouldn't mind getting my ass in to an office to experience it if nothing else.