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Just wandering if you've ever considered a change of career. Some of us here have spent years studying and even more years gaining experience and status to reach the top of your chosen career ladder. Working all hours on a shit wage until you reach the top where the rewards are a good pay slip at the end of each month but the hours are still crap. Is the kind of work you've chosen all that you expected it to be or is it now soul destroying?

Would you continue to stick it out for the money and be unhappy in your job or change it for something that is good for the soul but with a lower wage?

Sometimes I couldn't be more sick of my work. I do enjoy what I do but when I get bored of it, it shows more than anything. I've found that trying something completely different is a big help. In spare time I've been a volunteer for things that I wouldn't initially think of doing as a job, and it has opened my mind to a lot more.

If designing didn't work out for me, I now know there'd be something else that I could enjoy equally if not more, and I would consider it, even if that means starting from scratch.

If you don't enjoy your job, you can't be putting 100% into it, so you won't be getting 100% out of it, however much you're paid. It can take a long time to realise that, but once you do, its not something I'd spend a large amount of my life continuing to do.

I've been having a little experiment. I've worked out that i could work 3 days a week without affecting my income. It would mean i would be working like a conveyor belt. Then for the other 4 days a week i could fit in some voluntary care work of some description.
I think i've finally found someone i can trust to take care of the remaing 3 days who can make me even more money. I've never trusted anyone alone with my business before so the thought of doing fulltime work part time scares me a little. I don't think i've quite grasped the pleasures of being my own boss yet.

miss hellfire wrote:I've been having a little experiment. I've worked out that i could work 3 days a week without affecting my income. It would mean i would be working like a conveyor belt. Then for the other 4 days a week i could fit in some voluntary care work of some description.
I think i've finally found someone i can trust to take care of the remaing 3 days who can make me even more money. I've never trusted anyone alone with my business before so the thought of doing fulltime work part time scares me a little. I don't think i've quite grasped the pleasures of being my own boss yet.

How much work is the other person interested in doing? Could you afford to make them your manager to do the lion's share of the work so that you'd only have to cover their holidays and do a bit of p/t leaving the rest of your time free to persue something else?

One day I'll get a proper job...

In the interim, whilst I'm blagging it with the "career" that I've chosen, I'll contemplate 'Er Indoors' advice and consider what else I could possibly turn my hand to (in the horrible event that I break a leg, or two, or three...)

I seem to have a habit of career changes at the moment. After 15 years in the same job I have found little satisfaction elsewhere since 2006. OK, I have walked out of call centre jobs, they were interim (pay the mortgage), but I thought the last one (NHS) was another career, obviously it wasn't.

I was dealing with Junior Doctor Recruitment. It was well mentioned in the press (Daily Hate Mail etc)

I'm no saint, I got overtime for the extra hours we had to do. I don't disagree with the system, it may have even worked had it been handled correctly. But it wasn't. The NHS is a disorganised collection of Trusts and Agencies whose mere existence costs millions.

After their request for me to reconsider my resignation I decided to go ahead and confirm it with a scathing letter about NHS mis-management and the Junior Doctor Recruitment. I bet that didn't go down well.

Giz a job Lorna, I'm sure I can snip bits !

StuartPlymouth wrote:Giz a job Lorna, I'm sure I can snip bits !

But which bits?

Katnap wrote:

StuartPlymouth wrote:Giz a job Lorna, I'm sure I can snip bits !

But which bits?

Probably the wrong ones!