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Quitting work and financial commitments

  • 23-08-2006 9:31am
    #1
    Carb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭


    I wasn't sure whether this belonged here, or in personal issues, but as my primary concern is work related, I thought I'd post here.

    Some background info. first. I'm a part qualified accountant with almost six years experience and just my finals to sit. I earn 32k a year, but with a stay at home wife, a child under 1 year and another on the way at Christmas, a 200k mortgage etc. we're not really managing. In a nutshell, I need to get qualified. I hate my current job, which I've been in for 10 months. There is absolutely nothing that adds to my CV, and its been really a step back to work I was doing 3 years ago. I was due a pay review in April, but despite 3 reminders, its been conveniently forgotten about every time.

    I have been considering doing my finals in December, but with a full time job, a young child, a house that is still been built by direct labour/or by myself and which needs to finished before the winter, I don't think its feasible to do the exams. I've been giving some thought to taking a break in my mortgage, quitting work, and between social welfare and a 4/5k tax refund that I'm due, we could survive. This way I could do my exams and finsih the house. My first concern is the fact that I've already changed jobs quite often due to the fact that when I was training, I always put experience ahead of salary. If I wasn't getting experience I moved on. This means my CV has exceptional experience on it, but quite a number of employers (all who will give great references). My second concern is about quitting a secure job when I've such massive financial commitments.

    The reason I posted here is to see if anyone else has found themselves in a similiar position. Have any newly qualified accountants found it difficult getting a job soon after their exams. Will the fact that I won't have worked for 3/4 months be looked on unfavourably by employers. What would others do in this scenario.

    Sorry about the lenghty post, but I thought it best to give the background to my situation. Mods, if you think this should be elsewhere, please move.


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  • #2
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Carb wrote:
    Will the fact that I won't have worked for 3/4 months be looked on unfavourably by employers. What would others do in this scenario.
    I find employers are still anally retentive about 'gaps' in people's CVs. Check out any of the standard Civil Service application forms and they explicitly tell you to explain any gaps in listing your employment since you left school!

    As long as you can justify the gap by explaining that you were doing your accounting finals, it's not a problem. In fact many employers would be very impressed in the first place that you managed to do so much part time and juggle a young-family and house-building at the same time. Many bods doing the Bar exam finals take as much as 6 months to a year off.


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