Accountants
Every client in the practice carries their own filing dates, and the paperwork behind those dates arrives late, in the busiest weeks of the year.
Professions
Room for everyone on the desk
Every occupation here carries a set of dates, renewals, inspections and chases that nobody is paid to think about until one of them lapses. Pick the one that sounds like your week.
62 occupations. Priced by the work on the desk, never by seats.
Accounting and tax
For accounting and tax
Bookkeepers
A bookkeeper carries the month-end of a dozen different clients at once, and each one closes on a different date with a different pile of missing paperwork.
Mortgage brokers
Advising is the visible part; underneath sit an authorisation, an annual declaration, a CPD year and a file that has to stand up to a review years later.
Professional services
For professional services
Consultants
A consultant's income depends on proposals that need following up, timesheets that need chasing and invoices that wait until the client's own process allows.
Recruiters
A recruiter's fee depends on a candidate being chased, a client being updated and a compliance file that is complete before the placement starts.
Virtual assistants
A virtual assistant lives inside other people's deadlines, and every client keeps a different calendar and a different idea of urgent.
Legal
For legal
Solicitors
A solicitor works to dates other people set, and a limitation date or a filing deadline does not move because the file arrived late.
Lawyers
The practising year runs alongside every live matter: renewals, CPD returns and client account rules all fall due whether or not the case list is quiet.
Built environment
For built environment
Architects
An architect's obligations do not stop at practical completion, and the dates set by planning, building control and the register all keep running afterwards.
Surveyors
A surveyor's liability outlives the instruction, so inspection notes, measurements and report dates have to stand up years after the site visit.
Trades and construction
For trades and construction
Electricians
Scheme registration, calibration dates and fixed-wire test cycles all fall due while the van is out on the day's jobs.
Plumbers
Gas registration, unvented tickets and landlord safety records run on their own clocks, none of them aligned to the working week.
Builders
Warranty registrations, building control sign-offs and site certificates stack up across every job running at once.
Contractors
Prequalification questionnaires, card renewals and client portals fall due in the middle of delivering the work they were won with.
Roofers
Scaffold inspections, working-at-height evidence and warranty paperwork arrive while the weather decides what the week looks like.
Locksmiths
Approval scheme assessments, DBS renewals and the records behind every non-destructive entry keep coming round on unsociable hours.
Gardeners
The work is the hedging and mowing; the weight is the renewals, the tip tickets and the invoices nobody has paid.
Small business
For small business
Cleaners
Staff vetting, chemical assessments and the same weekly client chase all run alongside the shifts being covered.
Ecommerce sellers
An online seller runs on settlement statements, VAT on cross-border sales, returns windows and reorder points, all moving weekly and none of them visible from the shopfront.
Childminders
One registered adult carries the inspections, the certificates, the household checks and the parents' funded hours paperwork.
Nursery owners
A nursery keeps its registration, its ratios and its funding claim on top of the staffing that delivers the care.
Dog groomers
A grooming licence, a vaccination record and a hygiene log follow every appointment in the book.
Health and care
For health and care
Dentists
A dental practice carries registration, inspection, radiography testing, decontamination audits and controlled drug records, and every one of them has a date that cannot move.
Physiotherapists
Registration, a two-year CPD cycle, indemnity, equipment calibration and record retention all compete with a full appointment book and a waiting list.
Chiropractors
Annual registration, a CPD audit, imaging compliance, advertising rules and indemnity all fall on the same person who is treating patients all day.
Pharmacists
Registration, revalidation records, the controlled drug register, service training and premises requirements all run alongside the counter work of a pharmacy.
Veterinary surgeons
A practice has to keep registration, medicines records, radiography files, controlled drug registers and clinical waste contracts current while treating animals all day.
Fitness and wellbeing
For fitness and wellbeing
Personal trainers
Insurance, first aid, DBS, screening forms and CPD all carry dates, and they sit between sessions that are already booked back to back.
Yoga instructors
Teaching runs across several venues, and each one wants insurance, a first aid certificate and a risk assessment that is still in date.
Creative work
For creative work
Artists
Grant deadlines, open calls and exhibition dates arrive faster than the work in the studio can be made.
Graphic designers
A designer's week disappears into version approvals, licence dates and the same client questions arriving after the brief has closed.
Photographers
Releases, licence end dates and equipment renewals arrive between shoots, and each one has a date that cannot slip.
Videographers
A videographer's calendar fills with shoot days, edit deadlines, music clearances and licence terms that outlive the finished film.
Copywriters
A copywriter's month is a run of client deadlines, revision rounds and usage terms attached to words already published.
Podcast producers
A podcast producer runs on a publish date that never moves, with licences, sponsor deliverables and feed checks behind every episode.
Freelance developers
Contract dates, certificate expiries and dependency patches build up across client projects while the build work waits.
Music and media
For music and media
Musicians
Playing is the easy part; the year is spent keeping registrations, statements, tour cover and foreign permits in order so the money and the dates arrive.
Songwriters
A songwriter's income depends on splits signed, works registered and statements queried on time, and none of that work happens at the piano.
Music managers
A manager runs a client's business calendar, and it is advances, tour settlements and option dates that decide whether the year holds together.
Radio pluggers
A plugger's campaign lives and dies on add dates, playlist deadlines and chart cut-offs, and all three move with the release schedule.
Film producers
A producer's year is permits, clearances and delivery deadlines, with each one dated and each one able to stall the whole production.
Events
For events
Event planners
An event planner carries every deposit date, licence condition and supplier payment at once, and the event happens whether or not they are ready.
Wedding planners
Between deposit dates, notice periods and guests who do not reply, a wedding planner spends the season tracking details that other people own.
Venue owners
A venue carries music licences, capacity paperwork and fire safety documentation for every room, renewed on a calendar that does not wait for a quiet week.
Property
For property
Estate agents
Listings expire, certificates lapse and deposit deadlines run from the day a tenancy starts, and nobody in the branch is paid to watch them.
Landlords
A landlord is measured by certificate dates and statutory windows, each one attached to a property rather than to a diary that already exists.
Property managers
A property manager runs a building's whole year at once, from the service charge budget to the half-yearly lift examination and the leaseholders who pay for it.
Facilities managers
A facilities manager answers for one building's statutory calendar, where gas, water, fire, lifts and fixed wiring each carry their own inspection interval.
Training and coaching
For training and coaching
Driving instructors
Pupils book, cancel and pass, but the ADI badge, the standards check and the car all run to their own clock.
Life coaches
Sessions end, but accreditation, professional indemnity and the notes behind each client run on their own calendar.
Education
For education
Retail and hospitality
For retail and hospitality
Restaurant owners
A restaurant runs on paperwork that expires quietly: licences, temperature logs, allergen sheets and certificates that only matter the day someone asks to see them.
Independent retailers
A shop carries a year of rates instalments, lease dates, policy renewals and card terminal contracts, all handled by the person already standing on the shop floor.
Hair salon owners
A salon juggles patch test records, water testing, chair rent agreements and colour technician certificates while the column stays full and nobody stops for admin.
Market traders
A market trader works around pitch fees, calibration certificates, food registration and a banking cycle that all fall on days the stall is open.
Florists
A florist's year turns on wedding order dates, waste contracts and stock that spoils, with Valentine's and Mothering Sunday carrying the whole margin.
Transport
For transport
Fleet operators
A fleet operator carries a renewal date, a test slot and a paperwork trail for every vehicle on the road, and the count only goes up.
HGV operators
An HGV operator holds a licence from the Traffic Commissioner, and every vehicle, driver and maintenance record on it has to stay in good standing.
Taxi operators
A taxi operator answers to the council for every car, every driver and every plate on the road, and the renewal dates are only the start of it.
Land and agriculture
For land and agriculture
Farmers
Claim windows, movement reports and herd records decide the year's income long before the harvest does.
Security
For security
Security guards
A licence that renews every three years, instructions that change per site and a log that has to survive a complaint.
Something to run
A name, a website and one sentence about the business is enough for the desk to propose the list. It can be corrected, and it starts the same working day.