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Work dilemma

  • 21-02-2017 2:53pm
    #1
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭


    I'm in a job I don't hate but I also don't love. Sometimes I feel I don't like it. Recently I find myself thinking I should really leave and find something I'm passionate about.

    Having said that, I've already moved jobs a bit more than I would have liked to. So I wonder if I should remain in this job for consistency? My housemate advised me that she would never leave a job until she'd done at least a year, regardless of if she didn't like it.

    I just wondered what people's thoughts are?

    Stay in a job that doesn't fulfill you but is related to what you want to do down the line and is good experience, or leave and find something you really love in the same area, and risk your CV looking jumpy?

    Thoughts on this appreciated. Thanks :)


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  • #2
    EverythingGood
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    IMO, better to stay for now, continuance is good, and unless you have a job lined up to be passionate in, it'd be difficult to pay rent etc... Ask yourself why you hate it? Can you do anything to change it? Or move internally?


  • #3
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭Melisandre121


    Loveinapril wrote: »
    Stick it out for at least a year. I read a few of your threads in the past and if I remember correctly, you are only there a few months. Maybe look at volunteering in a slightly different social care area to branch out of your current role but to increase your skills for your next job. Always be improving, either in the job or outside of it.

    Thanks for this. Yeah I'm not there long, maybe I'm being a bit unrealistic thinking I should go find the "job of my dreams" when I have a job that pays the bills and suits me fine in terms of where I need to go career wise.

    I just keep thinking that I could be doing something I really love, and that niggling feeling is starting to annoy me.


  • #4
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭Melisandre121


    Loveinapril wrote: »
    I completely understand. I am in social care too, and have struggled away in "okay" jobs after qualifying knowing I should be doing something else. I always used my time in those roles doing things I like, such as getting training in specific areas to allow me to use those skills. Or I used my personal qualities by creating or implementing new programmes, etc. I have also volunteered in different areas to my paid role. This increases my knowledge base and experience but also allows for networking. Once you realise that this job is not your forever job but is a stepping stone to your forever job, you can start using it to give you the practical skills for your next one!

    This is great advice! I'm actually due to start working with children once a week in a play therapy setting which I think will be good for me. Can I ask what type of social care work you do? I'm in disabilities but I feel homelessness is far more suited to me which is why I don't feel satisfied. Homeless services are hit and miss though!


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