Have anyone sacrificed their career to make their life easier?

MLH1

I for one have, I have a specific qualification that I just parked up and forgot about because it would mean being worse off location wise.

3rdDegree

MLH1 wrote: »

I for one have, I have a specific qualification that I just parked up and forgot about because it would mean being worse off location wise.

I take it that qualification was not as an English teacher?

MLH1

No

sullivlo

I sacrificed my life for my career... But I'm happy and there's plenty of time for life now.

AnonoBoy

C A R E E R?

What is C A R E E R?

thinks too much

At this stage I have a job with zero satisfaction because but for me its all about providing me with enough income for my family to enjoy life and have as much time together as possible. Lots of friends have great career jobs but seem to have to give up family time for those careers and that is not for me.

anncoates

Not exactly but I've avoided becoming management before as even though it's more money, I don't want the extra hours and stress

Stavros Murphy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

C A R E E R?

What is C A R E E R?

Carer, they meant Carer. They sacrificed their carer so they could have a better life. It's a Mayan thing. No real guarantees TBH, and legally frowned on.

ringadingding

I wish I could stop caring about my work for an easier life!
I often feel like a tit for stressing and working harder than those around me.

I don't know who's the idiots, them or me.

Spring Onion

I had a super job in London for 5 years. Working in the City. Money for nothing.

But I left it all to come back to Galway and raise a family. Took a 60% pay cut in the process. And ss they say "Galway is the graveyard of ambition" but I am happy to be back. Stress also reduced 60%!

notnumber

Other way around unfortunately .

Santa Cruz

MLH1 wrote: »

I for one have, I have a specific qualification that I just parked up and forgot about because it would mean being worse off location wise.

You are probably as well off. The bottom has fallen out of the male stripper business

SamAK

3rdDegree wrote: »

I take it that qualification was not as an English teacher?

Oh haw haw you so witty.

Not.

Napoleon Nose

I gave up a promising career in Finance to start my own business. I still work long hours, but the sense of satisfaction I get from doing things for myself is priceless. Not so much a sacrifice as a reassessment.

Mint Aero

Spring Onion wrote: »

I had a super job in London for 5 years. Working in the City. Money for nothing.

But I left it all to come back to Galway and raise a family. Took a 60% pay cut in the process. And ss they say "Galway is the graveyard of ambition" but I am happy to be back. Stress also reduced 60%!

I've never heard of this before but it makes sense.

Quandary

Left a high paying high stress IT job to become a primary school teacher.

I'm working in a disadvantaged school which can have its problems but the job is a doddle compared to the stress I was dealing with in IT.

I'm earning 50% less now but quality of life is unmatchable IMO

December2012

Yep. It's not worth it, stress wise, for my family for both me and my husband to work with the demands our respective career needs put on us.

geckovision

Quandary wrote: »

Left a high paying high stress IT job to become a primary school teacher.

I'm working in a disadvantaged school which can have its problems but the job is a doddle compared to the stress I was dealing with in IT.

I'm earning 50% less now but quality of life is unmatchable IMO

I'm giving up my IT job to follow a similar path.

Long road ahead, but I'll be better off. Like you said, quality of life is what it's all about (and satisfying work of course).

eviltwin

I walked away from a well paying business based job with lots of perks to work in the community...stone broke now but much happier and doing something that actually does some good for a change rather than lining some w**kers pockets.

genericguy

Nope. I love my job, it pays really well, and is very stimulating, but hugely stressful at times. I kinda feel like I need the stress though. a job like teaching (which is just same sh1t different day coasting really) or whatever wouldn't keep me amused, I need the ups and downs to stay interested.

Knight who says Meh

Yeah. I did, About ten years ago after watching one friends marriage fall apart and another who is all but a stranger to his young family I decided Im gonna work to live rather than live to work. My job is not 'what I do' but rather 'what I have to do to enable me to do'
Im content that Im going to (hopefully) in the same job for the rest of my life and on the same money. To get any further would mean travel and looong hours. My family get by nicely and have time to spare. That's fine by me.

The One Doctor

I'm in the process of switching careers from IT to counselling. Much better job satisfaction, regardless of the drop in income.

Stavros Murphy

I jacked in a burgeoning career in modelling to spend more time with my family.





I was bored witless sticking them airfix kits together anyway.

Ballfro

genericguy wrote: »

Nope. I love my job, it pays really well, and is very stimulating, but hugely stressful at times. I kinda feel like I need the stress though. a job like teaching (which is just same sh1t different day coasting really) or whatever wouldn't keep me amused, I need the ups and downs to stay interested.

Teaching is highly stimulating,has many ups and downs, rarely are two days the same and is quite stressful. You might not be suitable for it but is there any need for ignorant comments? You try coasting in a class of 28 teenagers, thanks for that laugh!

Ballfro

genericguy wrote: »

Nope. I love my job, it pays really well, and is very stimulating, but hugely stressful at times. I kinda feel like I need the stress though. a job like teaching (which is just same sh1t different day coasting really) or whatever wouldn't keep me amused, I need the ups and downs to stay interested.

Teaching is highly stimulating,has many ups and downs, rarely are two days the same and is quite stressful. You might not be suitable for it but is there any need for ignorant comments? You try coasting in a class of 28 teenagers, thanks for that laugh!

Theboinkmaster

Ballfro wrote: »

Teaching is highly stimulating,has many ups and downs, rarely are two days the same and is quite stressful. You might not be suitable for it but is there any need for ignorant comments? You try coasting in a class of 28 teenagers, thanks for that laugh!

Yeah but teachers can't be fired.

Performance related job/no job is proper stress, especially with mortgage, kids etc.

The Backwards Man

I was a workaholic in my twenties, there weren't enough hours in the week for me, I used to even find myself cleaning the house at 4am so I wouldn't have to sleep as long before work in the morning.

Then a few people close to me died long before they should have, and I finally copped on to myself. I still work long hours, and I still love working, but I spend much more time enjoying life too.

Nabber

I love threads on jobs. Now my turn.

I had a career working in an industry, whose goal was to do business in said industry, needless to say the businesses industry was not the industry of business.

So I left

MonstaMash

Absolutely...my career as a lothario & all round libertine had to be forsaken to appease the OH :rolleyes:

ivytwine

I forsook my career before I even started

ikarie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG9paM_3QRM
Chris Rock on Careers and Jobs

beks101

I have one of those "not doing it for the money" jobs and my work schedule is hilarious and ridiculous - zero job security, zero regular sleep schedule and more stressful than anything I've ever experienced in my life.

I hope to settle into a steady 9-5 (even a 9-9 sounds decent) pensionable job with reasonable salary and benefits some day and get a book out of my days as a 20-something freelance TV News slave.