Fed up with job want to switch to something more basic

make sure your husband is fully on board and not just going along for "peace and quiet" , for one you are putting more financial pressure on your husband and secondly you might not be around a lot of the weekend when you both might want to do stuff. flip it in your head and imagine your husband making the same decision?

Can you work part time in your current job? And trial something else on your days off?
You may earn more part time in your current job than full time in another.

Hi op

if your role has been eroded you should sit down with your boss and have a chat about redundancy. Especially if your working title and role dont match you may have a good case.

Dont leave until you have explored this as even statutory payments will allow you to make choices like re-training.

loveisdivine wrote: »

OK, so going on an estimate of hourly wage at the cafe, working there full time would give me the same net pay as working my current job 4 days a week instead of 5.

Just bear in mind that they may not be offering full-time hours, though. I'd pop in and have a chat to them before you do anything else. Find out the hours available and the hourly pay, if possible.

OP, I was going to post about waitressing not always being a barrel of laughs, but I re-read your post and I see you're aware of the occasional downsides. As you've waitressed before and have no doubt dealt with late nights and sore feet and rude customers, yet are still willing to give this a go, I say...why not. By the sounds of it, the place you mentioned sounds like quite a large business, so who knows, maybe once you get your foot in the door and if you like the place, a job might come up in the admin side of the business you might be interested in going for? A busy, buzzy place like that might have a completely different energy about it than working in some drab office building somewhere, and might be more interesting for you.

Ah I enjoyed that... 'you will soon be dead!'

Posted something very similar to shesty over the weekend in a different thread, we must be all taking a good hard look at life in an office!
I think the 'don't panic if you don't have it all figured out yet' bit from that video is good advice... but am going to work towards my alternative career plan. Life is definitely too short to be miserable in work.

Best of luck OP with the job! Sounds positive!

I know a lot of people are in jobs and they would like to move to another job or work part time. In some work places it can be a combination of things that make you realise that it's time to move on. I have seen friends dealing with horrible bosses, an always high work load because people are leaving and not been replaced or a wage that is low compared people doing the same job. Some work places are just so toxic now that no amount of money is worth what you have to put up with.
I have seen people move/change jobs. I know other people would have been thinking why did X do this or leave a good job in A to take a job in B which would not pay as well.

I know one lady who left her very well paying job for one that paid less. She heard about this job via a friend and was unsure about applying at first. Both her and her husband decided that it was worth going for it as the hours were more family friendly. Now a number of years later she likes this job and her company are paying the high fees for her further education course. The company were also very supportive when she had some personal issues and needed time off. She told me if I was still in the last place I would not have got the time off.

One of my friends is married and has a family. Her husband worked in the same industry for over 15 years. Over the past 2 years he found he was working harder, dealing with staff causing problems or not turning up to work so he ended up having to do their job as well as his own. Due a personal issue he had some time off work and he decided to do up his CV. He had a few interviews and got a totally different job and he is far happier now.

I had a friend who had a good job with company z. She had a good salary but worked long hours. She told me that she did not like her job and was sorry she did not become y after leaving school. I said to her when she was 30 that she could go back to college to do this. She had a number of excuses then why she could not do this. The truth was she lacked the ability to realise she could and needed to make changes to her life then.
Now over 10 years later she was made redundant from company z despite the long hours/****ty jobs she did for them. She found it hard to get work after this and took a part time job due to this and for personal reasons.

I think if you want to change jobs or work part time you look at your income and out goings. Check up on the tax calculator online to see the tax, prsi, USC you have to pay in a new job. I know some people that did this and found that taking a lower paid did not lead to as much of a pay cut due paying less tax.

For a lot of people getting out of a company or away from a particular job or from working long hours/shift work or weekends is not always about money but about general happiness and having a better work/life balance. For a lot of people having extra time in the evenings or at the weekends is worth more than an extra few euro each month.
Sometimes a sideways move can be better long term than staying in a job that you hate.

As you get older you realise the following is true - work is part of life but should not be your whole life.