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Should I leave my job if it's not going anywhere?

  • 06-09-2014 2:11pm
    #1
    TheDruidWizard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭


    I've had my current job for almost two years and it just feels very dead-end.

    As it's a start-up company, the payment isn't great and it's not likely to progress any further.

    Also the tasks are every mundane and requires little experience. It's mainly content-management and really just requires a lot of copying and pasting of content from one source to another.

    From time to time, I get calls from recruitment agents. But they're always more interested in my previous job roles as QA and software testing and not my current one.

    At the time I took the job, just for the sake of having a job when the global economy went bad.

    It was part of the jobbridge scheme, but I was fortunate enough that they kept me on, but I feel like I regret choosing a content-management job.

    Now things are picking up especially in I.T, it may be time to try to move on to something else.

    My older brother, who is a well-paid Project Manager, made the same suggestion to me months ago. That once you know how to do a job and you're not learning anything new, that perhaps it's time to pack it in.

    I'm currently enrolled in a part-time course to up skill my self at least. Which starts on Tuesday. Then my job contract is up untill January.


    What would you do in this situation?


Comments

  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Start applying for jobs elsewhere. Don't leave the present job until you have something.


  • #3
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    I'm sorry, I don't understand.

    You're in a badly-paid, mundane job, your contract expires expires in a few months and you're wondering if you should be looking for another position?

    Really?


  • #4
    TheDruidWizard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭TheDruidWizard


    djpbarry wrote: »

    You're in a badly-paid, mundane job, your contract expires expires in a few months and you're wondering if you should be looking for another position?

    The contract will most likely be renewed for another year.

    The main reason I've stuck with it this long, is because the unemployment rate was quite high, so it was either this or just stay on the dole.

    I was hoping that things in the company would turn around, but it's just stagnating a good bit.


  • #5
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    TheDruidWizard wrote: »
    The contract will most likely be renewed for another year.
    Fair enough, but that's still not a terribly secure position to be in.
    TheDruidWizard wrote: »
    The main reason I've stuck with it this long, is because the unemployment rate was quite high...
    I wouldn't be using the headline unemployment rate as a guideline for anything. Employment prospects vary widely from one industry to another. For example, a software developer is going to have far more options in Ireland right now than a brickie.


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