Name Andrew Rogers
Job health promotion manager
Salary around £40,000

Andrew Rogers has experienced a north/south divide of his own during the development of his career.

When he studied for an honours degree in human ecology at Huddersfield University in the mid-80s it included a one year placement in Oldham health promotion unit.

On completion of his degree he moved south to get a job as a health promotion officer at Aylesbury and Buckinghamshire where he focused mostly on health promotion in the workplace.

After two years he returned north to work as an HIV prevention co-ordinator in Blackburn, but less than a year later he moved south again to manage the Aylesbury unit.

Another three years on he was back north to Tameside and Glossop health authority to manage the health promotion unit there, and when his health authority was merged with Oldham's in the early 90s he secured the post of heath promotion manager for the new West Pennine authority.

"It's a great job," Rogers says, but seniority in the profession is accompanied by less job satisfaction. "When I was younger I used to run heart-saver courses ­ teaching community groups to do resuscitation. I got immediate payback from that because I received reports every time someone I taught helped save somebody's life."