Leaving My Dead-End Job & Chasing The Dream

JayC5

Hi,

I'm now in my late twenties & having spent the past eight years working in a vocation that has become meaningless to me I have decided to return to study for a BA Hons degree at night, two evenings a week for four years to be precise.

I have to leave my current job because I constantly get screwed with unpaid overtime & I can never make any deadlines or arrangements during the week (it would be impossible for me to juggle a night-time degree course with my present job as it’s just not possible with the hours I do, that and the fact that I have come to hate it with a passion also & keep getting ****** over!). So, to get to the point I have decided to finish up in my current vocation & take two months out before I start my course at the end of the summer, which hopefully will coincide with a new job.

I’m not particularly picky about my next job as long as the pay is reasonable & the hours are regular to allow me to work a study program around them – I have eight years office/banking experience so I assume getting a temp position until something suitable comes along should not be too much of a problem? Ultimately I’d like to get something like a role in the Civil Service which would suit me perfectly with flexi-time arrangements etc.

Anyway, do you think it’s a bad idea to just quit a job cold turkey? Surely pursuing my night degree justifies this & negates anything that would go against me in any future job interviews? I also need some time out as I recently went through an extremely turbulent period of my life & lost many close family members including a younger sibling, two months is surely not too much to take for some personal timeout surely? - or would that work against me also?

And one last issue, I inherited a significant sum of money recently which I intend on investing for my future & also to help me get up and running after completing my degree/further studies. If something happened that I was unable to get a job within my two month hiatus would my inheritance money scupper any chances of receiving social welfare payments if things went that far? By that I mean do they means test people signing on?

(I'm not being greedy may I add, I just need to know if I need to budget for this If I can't claim social welfare)

I know it probably won’t come to that but I need to cover all possibilities before I take this leap. It’s a defining change in my life & one that took a long time to come around for me so I don’t intend on messing up. Any suggestions/possible hiccups I’ve overlooked or pointers to help me out would be greatly appreciated. Cheers for listening.

JCcinq

Tom Dunne

I think you are doing the right thing.

Sounds like you have been through a lot over the past while and taking the metaphorical bull by the horns and doing something about it is a very wise thing to do. Turning over a new leaf, so to speak.

Best of luck, I really hope it works out for you.

damnyanks

You could always apply to do the degree as a mature student. You get some form of cash paid to you would let you do it full time and finish quicker.