Sunday (or rather bank hol Monday) night blues, again
Discussion
I dislike my job so much now that it’s starting to ruin my weekends
It’s very demanding of my time, nothing is ever enough, and I’m always asked/persuaded to work very long hours and weekends, I had to literally tell my supervisor to f
k off after the 5th time I was asked at short notice to work today.
I’ve been there and done it now after ten years fully trained in the job, and supervisory roles just take even more hours than I currently do, also been there and done that.
I don’t have many transferable skills and as you can imagine, not much time to re train.
I currently earn the PAYE equivalent of around £55k, which for my age (28) is good, and I know I’ll struggle to get this doing anything else. I only really need £25-30k as long as it’s local, and I could be happy with that, with hopefully potential for increases or promotions.
Has anyone else got themselves out of this situation with no time to retrain and struggling to find a job which will take a career-changer who can’t take a massive pay cut? I guess I’m just hoping to hear some success stories so I don’t completely lose faith! I want to have kids in the future with my girlfriend but I want to have time to watch them grow up and enjoy it instead of always being at work....
It’s very demanding of my time, nothing is ever enough, and I’m always asked/persuaded to work very long hours and weekends, I had to literally tell my supervisor to f
k off after the 5th time I was asked at short notice to work today. I’ve been there and done it now after ten years fully trained in the job, and supervisory roles just take even more hours than I currently do, also been there and done that.
I don’t have many transferable skills and as you can imagine, not much time to re train.
I currently earn the PAYE equivalent of around £55k, which for my age (28) is good, and I know I’ll struggle to get this doing anything else. I only really need £25-30k as long as it’s local, and I could be happy with that, with hopefully potential for increases or promotions.
Has anyone else got themselves out of this situation with no time to retrain and struggling to find a job which will take a career-changer who can’t take a massive pay cut? I guess I’m just hoping to hear some success stories so I don’t completely lose faith! I want to have kids in the future with my girlfriend but I want to have time to watch them grow up and enjoy it instead of always being at work....
Earning 55k equivalent you must have some transferable skills, have long think what they are and target the sectors you can transfer into.
Do you have any management responsibility over junior staff for example, say training, mentoring? Highly transferable skill to look a team leader position in a different industry.
Do you have any management responsibility over junior staff for example, say training, mentoring? Highly transferable skill to look a team leader position in a different industry.
Have you thought about becoming self employed?
I’ve been after a few jobs to be done round the house lately and struggled to get anyone to do them in the next month or so, seemingly small companies too busy.
I’m quite tempted to buy a rug doctor, pressure washer, some ladders, and do carpet cleaning, conservatory roof cleaning, guttering etc. It’s surprising how hard it is to get booked in to get this stuff done, so there must be plenty of work out there!
I’ve been after a few jobs to be done round the house lately and struggled to get anyone to do them in the next month or so, seemingly small companies too busy.
I’m quite tempted to buy a rug doctor, pressure washer, some ladders, and do carpet cleaning, conservatory roof cleaning, guttering etc. It’s surprising how hard it is to get booked in to get this stuff done, so there must be plenty of work out there!
I’m exactly the same, I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it.
Earn good money for my age and location and no other jobs I’ve applied for are even close (as I also have a final salary pension).
Going to get a bit of savings, clear my loan, sell my watch, pay off the wedding / holiday / honeymoon (so 18 months more), and look to change career or job.
Go for it!
Earn good money for my age and location and no other jobs I’ve applied for are even close (as I also have a final salary pension).
Going to get a bit of savings, clear my loan, sell my watch, pay off the wedding / holiday / honeymoon (so 18 months more), and look to change career or job.
Go for it!
CX53 said:
I’m quite tempted to buy a rug doctor, pressure washer, some ladders, and do carpet cleaning, conservatory roof cleaning, guttering etc. It’s surprising how hard it is to get booked in to get this stuff done, so there must be plenty of work out there!
That's what I would do if I was younger and fitter. You just need to be in the right sort of area, i.e. where the potential customers actually have some disposable income. Would probably take a little while to build up a business but once you get known and the word of mouth gets going I reckon a handy bloke would have as much work as he wanted.Are HR going to help you? I’ll answer that – no…
The only thing I can recommend is to get your CV out there, CV library etc…
Put your mobile on silent for 48 hours as it will light up all day with agencies contacting you.
£55K at 28 is a good whack, so whatever skills you have, pay well and are in demand. I wouldn’t underestimate your transferrable skills.
This is a down side of a high salary, sometimes its boredom money, or in this case annoyance money. Great jobs USUALLY pay poorly. Good money is difficult to walk away from but being stressed out/hating your job 40+ hours a week is no way to live life.
When a company has people, who can/do work at short notice, they always get picked on, and the idiot above them doesn’t realise that every request is yet another straw on the camel’s back. Been there, got the t-shirt. This grates, especially when you are digging others out of the proverbial.
A possibility is to get a lower paid job say £45K but gives you the much-needed time to retrain and look properly for other work. Think of it as a 2-year plan.
Personally, I would be looking at agency/contract work (paid hourly, not daily) for 6-12 months as this gets you the time, when every hour Is on the meter, companies don’t ask for more hours than strictly necessary.
PAYE equivalent? - are you contract/agency now?
One of my “retired” neighbours has a job pressure washing posh people’s drive ways. He’s busy every weekend!
The only thing I can recommend is to get your CV out there, CV library etc…
Put your mobile on silent for 48 hours as it will light up all day with agencies contacting you.
£55K at 28 is a good whack, so whatever skills you have, pay well and are in demand. I wouldn’t underestimate your transferrable skills.
This is a down side of a high salary, sometimes its boredom money, or in this case annoyance money. Great jobs USUALLY pay poorly. Good money is difficult to walk away from but being stressed out/hating your job 40+ hours a week is no way to live life.
When a company has people, who can/do work at short notice, they always get picked on, and the idiot above them doesn’t realise that every request is yet another straw on the camel’s back. Been there, got the t-shirt. This grates, especially when you are digging others out of the proverbial.
A possibility is to get a lower paid job say £45K but gives you the much-needed time to retrain and look properly for other work. Think of it as a 2-year plan.
Personally, I would be looking at agency/contract work (paid hourly, not daily) for 6-12 months as this gets you the time, when every hour Is on the meter, companies don’t ask for more hours than strictly necessary.
PAYE equivalent? - are you contract/agency now?
One of my “retired” neighbours has a job pressure washing posh people’s drive ways. He’s busy every weekend!
Jasandjules said:
If you feel that bad you need to leave. Now.
It would be nice if it were always this simple. I’ve found myself in a similar situation to the OP because I’ve become allergic to some of the materials I come in to contact with at work, and as such I’ve now got rhinitis which is manageable during a week off when it calms down, but when I’m working it’s horrendous, painful, annoying and distracting.
As a contractor, I can’t get moved sideways by my employer in to the office because I am the employer as it were.
If I could just pick my things up and leave to do something else, I would, but like all of us, I’ve got bills to pay and like the OP, not much time to re-train, and wouldn’t know what to re-train in anyway even if I had the time.
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