I want to break free!

LadyJ

Thinking about quitting work today because, after years of pissing around, I'm hopefully going to be going back to college in September and I want to do a bit of travelling first.

I have lots of short trips planned. Prague, Helsinki, Rome, Marrakech, maybe America for a month. Basically, I know I need to quit work soon but have only been working here a few months and stupidly told them I'd be staying at least a year when I started. D'oh! So I'm not looking forward to doing it.

Apart from giving me a boot up the hole so that I waste no more time and quit today, I want the people of boards to do me up some kind of itinerary. Where should I go? What should I see? And is there anything else, apart from travelling that I simply must do over the next few months?

Get me excited! Convince me that today is the day I have to break free!

biko

Nah, leave it till tomorrow. Best so. Or next week.

LadyJ

LadyJ wrote: »

Where should I go? What should I see? And is there anything else, apart from travelling that I simply must do over the next few months?

Post in the Travel forum

Aran Islands?

declanoneill

LadyJ wrote: »

Get me excited!

Best offer I've had all week.

RxQueen

you should do an interrailing trip, get to see loads of places all in one go. or do like six weeks in the US, starting at on coastline finish at the other.

oh and thanks ill now have Queens song in my head all day!

Red Hand

First go the MD and tell him what you and everybody really thinks of him/her. Then, get a megaphone and chant "I want to break free!" in the canteen at lunchtime, and finally round off your productive day by streaking.

[Dr Phil]Only you have the power![Dr Phil/]

watna

LadyJ, I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm moving to NZ in two months and have to hand my notice in in a few weeks. I've only been here 5 months and there the kind of company that expect you to stay really long term. I've been planning what to say when i hand in my notice to make it as pleasant as possible!

My advice: QUIT! Tell them you have personal issues/family problems that require attention and then you intend to go back to college. Apologise and say you're sad to be leaving but it was out of your control.

Then go travel and enjoy yourself. You have the rest of your life to sit at a desk and be miserable (this is my excuse for leaving a good job and buggering off to NZ!)

SheroN

Having been laid off in the past I can never understand why people show loyalty to who they work for.

If it's in the companies best interest they'd drop you like a hot rock. If it's in your best interest you should do the same.

LadyJ

SheroN wrote: »

Having been laid off in the past I can never understand why people show loyalty to who they work for.

If it's in the companies best interest they'd drop you like a hot rock. If it's in your best interest you should do the same.

Tbh, it's not out of loyalty, it's just that I'm totally spineless! I hate confrontation and feel very awkward talking to my boss, especially when the conversation is about me quitting.

SheroN

LadyJ wrote: »

Tbh, it's not out of loyalty, it's just that I'm totally spineless! I hate confrontation and feel very awkward talking to my boss, especially when the conversation is about me quitting.

If it's the right time to quit - do it. You should take enjoyment from the whole thing. Besides, after you leave the job you'll probablly never see him/her again so who cares?

LadyJ

SheroN wrote: »

If it's the right time to quit - do it. You should take enjoyment from the whole thing. Besides, after you leave the job you'll probablly never see him/her again so who cares?

You're right, I know. It's just that he's the kind of guy who thinks everyone does everything that they do just to make his life difficult. He thinks we're all out to screw him over. It's hard to have a rational conversation with him.

LadyJ

LadyJ wrote: »

Tbh, it's not out of loyalty, it's just that I'm totally spineless! I hate confrontation and feel very awkward talking to my boss, especially when the conversation is about me quitting.

Send him an e-mail with a link to this thread

Grid.

Few years back I travelled across Canada on a Greyhound bus!! Magic! Great sense of freedom!! Get out there and see it all I say!! Grab life by the throat!!:D

knird evol

God dammit.
IM GOING TO BREAK FREE TOO !!!

I have a mortgage and no prospect of ever getting any other job - but I don't give sh!t I'm going in to tell the boss what I think of him. And the megafone and everything etc

RxQueen

LadyJ wrote: »

You're right, I know. It's just that he's the kind of guy who thinks everyone does everything that they do just to make his life difficult. He thinks we're all out to screw him over. It's hard to have a rational conversation with him.

dont put your own plans on hold just to please someone else, if its what you really want to do then just go for it, if you dont do it now you will just be worrying about telling him for the next few weeks and that pointless, get it over and done with as soon as possible if your 100% sure thats what you want.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Scandanavia would be my bet, if you've got the finainces (althought it's not much more expensive than here nowadays) once the weather improves.

seraphimvc

Myth wrote: »

Send him an e-mail with a link to this thread

+1
exactly what i wanna say!:D

Pepe LeFrits

If you're teetering on the brink of quitting, watch Office Space. That should tip the balance for you.

http://www.goodcleantech.com/images/OfficeSpace.JPG

watna

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

If you're teetering on the brink of quitting, watch Office Space. That should tip the balance for you.

http://www.goodcleantech.com/images/OfficeSpace.JPG

I watch that film about once every two months, just to keep me sane until I can leave my job! I also have the soundtrack which is great for listening to while at work. The song in the film credits is called "take this job and shove it, i aint working here no mo"

LadyJ, listen to that song. it'll fire you up to quit!

SheroN

LadyJ wrote: »

You're right, I know. It's just that he's the kind of guy who thinks everyone does everything that they do just to make his life difficult. He thinks we're all out to screw him over. It's hard to have a rational conversation with him.

I would suggest backpacking around Italy/Spain.

LadyJ

I fcuking did it!

RxQueen

cool! what did he say

LadyJ

Seemed secretly pissed off but was pretty co-operative. We're a tiny company so it's a bit of a hassle for him but I offered to stay two weeks and train in someone new so he couldn't really say much I suppose!

watna

Congratulations LadyJ.... I'm so jealous!

LadyJ

My God, I've been feeling so sick the past week or so and I didn't know what it was but it's gone now! Must have been nerves. I'm so happy! A bit scared too though.....Not sure where to go or what to do but for once I'm actually going to be doing something I said I would do!

Huzzah!

SheroN

Cool well done!

LadyJ

Now all I have to do is not be afriad of flying! If I die in a plane crash I'm gonna be so pissed off!

workaccount

Looks like i'm a little late here but if I was to do this I would have to have rigourous plans in place like how to deal with various issues that may crop up. Enough money without needing to borrow much.

How you will cope without the same amount of money? Do you need to feel part of something or have a real will to live- currently I seem to have so much mental barrier in this sense. I cannot let myself go...I am locked into consumerism and captitalism...I'm only young and I feel the pressure of you need to start saving for a house already and this kind of stuff. Very soul destroying. I cannot break free.

I would love to do this but am currently focused on bodybuilding and want to do that for the next 2 – 3 years. I would love to go away travelling but I want to do this first. I currently have a nice bit of money for the first time in my life so I am buying all the things I really want to get and have wanted to get for years. If I went off travelling I would not enjoy it because these are the things I need to focus on first – maybe it’s building a Foundation in a way but I hope it's not neverending. I want to end up in a place where I feel I can do f*ck all for 3 years and give myself a chance to decide what I really want to do with my life.

ibh

You should give the trans siberian-railway a lash. I havn't done it but would love to give it a go. Have also done the Canada travelling and it would be highly reccommended by me..

Oh and well done on the job quitting....

LadyJ

You see, I inherited a good bit of money about 4 years ago. Well actually about 11 years ago but I only got access to it when I turned 18. Until now I have only used it for things I needed but I guess I might as well use a chunk of it to go travelling and leave half of it for the future.

SheroN

You've made the right decision. I'd love to give up my job now.

watna

LadyJ wrote: »

You see, I inherited a good bit of money about 4 years ago. Well actually about 11 years ago but I only got access to it when I turned 18. Until now I have only used it for things I needed but I guess I might as well use a chunk of it to go travelling and leave half of it for the future.

You're dead right. I inherited a little bit of money when my granny died and I used it to go on my J1 a few years ago. I figured she'd want me to use it to live... not buy things with. If I had inherited more I wouldn't be sitting at my desk right now. I'd already be off travelling!

DaBreno

LadyJ wrote: »

Get me excited! Convince me that today is the day I have to break free!

Im married. With Mortagage. Bun in the oven. Two dogs. Car loan. Credit card Bill. Tied down for the next 30 years, unable to move. A sneaky pint at lunch time is as good as it gets.

RUN!! As fast as you Can!! For I am your future!

LadyJ

DaBreno wrote: »

Im married. With Mortagage. Bun in the oven. Two dogs. Car loan. Credit card Bill. Tied down for the next 30 years, unable to move. A sneaky pint at lunch time is as good as it gets.

RUN!! As fast as you Can!! For I am your future!

Ok, I'm running! Say no more!

John Mason

what about going to clare island, i hear its really nice over there:D

LadyJ

Ha, yeah it might be an idea alright! Learn the family trade.......Weaving/farming.....
It'll always be the dream!

NoLesNoMore

Don't bother leaving.

You will either do as most Irish do and visit different pubs throughout then world or you will return a travel bore who whitters on about the wealth of Culture in the Poontang region of South Gonorreaha.

Either way you will back in the dead end job you are leaving.

To Debreano.... no you are not the future, you are henpecked hubby who loves yacking on to his buddies about how the missus wont let him watch the footie while crying in the loo when alone.

You have no future.

kevmy

After viewing this thread I'm also inspired to quit.

Hell why don't we all quit and go on one massive year long bender taking in Italy/Spain through backpacking, Scandinavia, the Trans-Siberian railway, Canada via Greyhound bus before hitting to America on a J1 and rounding it off with a couple of weeks on Clare/the Aran Islands.


Seriously though fair play.

watna

NoLesNoMore wrote: »

Don't bother leaving.

You will either do as most Irish do and visit different pubs throughout then world or you will return a travel bore who whitters on about the wealth of Culture in the Poontang region of South Gonorreaha.

Either way you will back in the dead end job you are leaving.

To Debreano.... no you are not the future, you are henpecked hubby who loves yacking on to his buddies about how the missus wont let him watch the footie while crying in the loo when alone.

You have no future.

Yeah, but at least you will have seen something of the world before settling in to a dead end job.

Bitter much?

LadyJ

NoLesNoMore wrote: »

Don't bother leaving.

You will either do as most Irish do and visit different pubs throughout then world or you will return a travel bore who whitters on about the wealth of Culture in the Poontang region of South Gonorreaha.

Either way you will back in the dead end job you are leaving.

ROFL! No I won't. Hate Irish pubs and when I come back I'll be doing a degree in social care, a far cry from working in a courier company!

Looks like someone is on a bit of a downer though!

NoLesNoMore

LadyJ. Can I just say that I take it all back. Finally a mod with a sense of humour and the ability to reply coherently.

A case well put and an apology duly offered.

PS my niece starts Social Care in College in Sept as well.

Lola123

Congrats Ladyj!
I'm leaving my job in a few weeks although i have to say, I couldn't wait to hand in my notice!! Also going back to college. Heading away for a bit first too.... we should swap tips!

If you're sticking to europe, I recommend interrailing. You'll get to see lots of places and it won't cost an arm and a leg either.

Dizzyblabla

Even if I wanted to leave (which I don't) I have to give THREE MONTHS notice here in Norway... you're lucky, there's nothing worse than being in a job you don't like. Or maybe I'm luckier, I'm in a job that I love, and pays me to travel... best of both worlds!

Congrats and enjoy the travelling

LadyJ

Lola123 wrote: »

Congrats Ladyj!
I'm leaving my job in a few weeks although i have to say, I couldn't wait to hand in my notice!! Also going back to college. Heading away for a bit first too.... we should swap tips!

If you're sticking to europe, I recommend interrailing. You'll get to see lots of places and it won't cost an arm and a leg either.

Cool, congrats to you too!

I'm not sure if I'm going to do the interrailing thing. I'll probably need to be coming back and forth to Ireland because of certain responsibilities I have here. I want to go to America for a month but apart from that I want to take lots of shortish trips and have a week or so in between them to be at home.