Go back to temping?

Elessar

Has anyone gone back to temping from a permanent job? I am absolutely sick of my current office job and I am considering quitting in August or thereabouts and going back to temp work.

Reason being is I have no interest in what I am doing and I feel I would at least like not having to go into the same boring place every day and could change jobs as often as I like with temping.

There is a lot going for my current job - permanent, secure, no stress, 10 mins from home, great benefits. But I simply have no interest in it or a career in anything relating to office work and I feel like I am wasting my life (I'm 22).

Come August I wont have any debts so once I can pay my car insurance/fuel and have some money to spend at the weekends I am ok, so I will be able to take the pay cut down to the minimum again.

I honestly still do not know what career I want at all - I may go abroad for a bit, or go back to college, or study abroad or something. But I do know that I don't want anything to do with business or office work.

Am I crazy for wanting this?

AARRRGH

I run a temping website and I've noticed over the past few weeks I'm getting absolutely tons of applications through it, so now may not be the best time to ditch your job and start temping.

Just a heads up!

Suzywuzy

I'm in pretty much the exact same situation as you. Work in the Financial Services sector and hate it. It does the job for the minute for similar reasons to yourself but don't wanna be in it for too much longer. Not interested in the sector at all but still not sure if I wanna do other office work, ie. medical secretary or if I wanna go and do a childcare course or what. Head wrecking !!! :mad:

pink27

I hear ya suzywuzy. Work in financial sector. Hate it, never wanted to get into it but had to take the job at the time. Still there after 2 years and really thinking of ditching it in even with the state of the jobs and economy. Was thinking of childcare too but is this industry totally a gonner with the announced cuts for s&as in schools etc. My other option is vet nursing. Id be leaving a full time job that pays ok but stressed out becasue of it, I am crazy? Everyone blams us on a daily basis, I cant take the abuse anymore. What did you do, childcare???????

road_high

pink27 wrote: »

I hear ya suzywuzy. Work in financial sector. Hate it, never wanted to get into it but had to take the job at the time. Still there after 2 years and really thinking of ditching it in even with the state of the jobs and economy. Was thinking of childcare too but is this industry totally a gonner with the announced cuts for s&as in schools etc. My other option is vet nursing. Id be leaving a full time job that pays ok but stressed out becasue of it, I am crazy? Everyone blams us on a daily basis, I cant take the abuse anymore. What did you do, childcare???????

The Vet nursing could be a nice road to pursue if you had a passion for it. Look into it, life's too short to be stuck at something you hate.

Firetrap

Personally, I think you are insane to even consider jacking your job in. I work near the local dole office and the length of the queue is a sure-fire way to crystallize in your head how bad the jobs situation is out there. There will be plenty of people in the queue near you who will also be trying to get any sort of job going whether it be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush or temping jobs. Why bring hardship upon yourself just because you don't like your current job? It may not be your dream job but it's paying the bills.

You are still very young at 22 so you have plenty of time to change careers when things improve. I get the impression that you don't know what you want - leaving your job because you're bored and want to do something else is a very risky thing to do in the current climate. There is no guarantee that even if you temp that you will like it any more. You will also be throwing away job security, something that most people would give their eye teeth for just now.

Have you looked into doing a distance learning course or night classes? Perhaps you could study or train in something that genuinely interests you, whilst all the time having your job to fall back on.

j4vier

op if i were you id keep the job just for 3 of the reasons that you mentioned:
stress free,secure and close to home.
I had a job similar to this last year and i left it only because it was a temporary thing so had to go anyway but it was really handy and now i ended upin a place which is far from home, very stressful and totally insecure. these are the real reasons to be leaving a job now days!

if i were you id keep it and gain time to think what you really wanna do, cos temping isnt that particularly fullfilling either

best of luck

Buffman

The OP's post was 11 months ago, things have changed a fair bit in that time.
Any update OP, how'd you get on?

Elessar

Ahh memories.

While the job was ok I was bored out of my mind in it. What happened was that I spotted a college course I wanted to do starting in September of that year so I applied for that and got a place on it. It started in September and I finished that job first week of September.

It was the best move I could have made. Only 10-15 hours a week, lots of late starts/morning lie-ins, no stress, cash reserves keeping me going, doing something I have an interest in.

I'm just finished college now and soon I'll be qualified enough to find work in an entirely different sector doing work I actually enjoy!

So the moral of the story is: don't stay doing something you hate, life is too short. Find a way to do what you want.

Firetrap

OP, I didn't spot the date on your original post I'm glad you're happy with your decision - the proof of the pudding will be if you can find a new job.