So I started looking for a new job

lastlaugh · 28-07-2011 11:40PM

The Marlboro Man wrote: »

Of course s/he should, and I hope the OP teaches the kids to do the same. Great attitude to have. I know the kind the OP is - they're the kind of folk who will come out on top!

I would at least have another job lined up before I left somewhere, it just makes sense, especially if you have responsibilities.

It would be foolish to just throw caution to the wind...

hatrickpatrick · 28-07-2011 11:43PM

lastlaugh wrote: »

I would at least have another job lined up before I left somewhere, it just makes sense, especially if you have responsibilities.

It would be foolish to just throw caution to the wind...

And yet some of those who are remembered as the greatest people in history are precisely those who threw caution to the winds for something they believed in.

To quote Journey: "Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues, but the movie never ends it goes on, and on, and on, and on..."

Sure, you could take a chance and lose. Better to try and lose, then to spend the rest of your life wondering if you could have won.

DanGerMus · 28-07-2011 11:47PM

phasers wrote: »

If you have kids then you shouldn't take risks like that.

I hope it goes well for you, for your kids' sake.

the groutch wrote: »

very thin line though between risk taking and pure stupidity

To be fair, i don't think the op will be taking a risk by just looking for a job while still currently employed. I think he has a better chance of finding a new job as a person currently employed and with a positive confident attitude.

I'm in the same situation myself, gonna call into a few agencies next week and drop off some CVs just to see what happens. My current job is dead-end and absolutely horrid.

The Marlboro Man · 28-07-2011 11:50PM

lastlaugh wrote: »

I would at least have another job lined up before I left somewhere, it just makes sense, especially if you have responsibilities.

It would be foolish to just throw caution to the wind...

Depends on your circumstances I guess, but the OP was quoted as saying "but I get physically sick every single day when I go there and simply cannot stand it anymore".

I've been there - working for absolute díckheads "lucky to have a job" types.

I told them where to go, didn't have anything lined up either, but it made me even more eager. So now I'm earning much more than my previous postion, happier etc. The attitude of some of the Irish muck savage employers fúcking stinks.

lastlaugh · 28-07-2011 11:54PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

And yet some of those who are remembered as the greatest people in history are precisely those who threw caution to the winds for something they believed in.

To quote Journey: "Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues, but the movie never ends it goes on, and on, and on, and on..."

Sure, you could take a chance and lose. Better to try and lose, then to spend the rest of your life wondering if you could have won.

That's all very inspiring and all, and I mean no disrespect to the OP, but he/she is just someone who is p!ssed off in their current job.

Better to have a sh!t job and start looking for a new job rather than leaving it and then sitting at home looking at the bills to be paid and realizing there are not that many other jobs out there after all.

wild_cat · 29-07-2011 12:00AM

lastlaugh wrote: »

That's all very inspiring and all, and I mean no disrespect to the OP, but he/she is just someone who is p!ssed off in their current job.

Better to have a sh!t job and start looking for a new job rather than leaving it and then sitting at home looking at the bills to be paid and realizing there are not that many other jobs out there after all.

Hmmm... Nice user name you got there....

Anyway OP. Best of luck. Nothing worse than being filled with dread 5 days a week at the thought of going to a crap job.

lastlaugh · 29-07-2011 12:06AM

wild_cat wrote: »

Hmmm... Nice user name you got there....

Anyway OP. Best of luck. Nothing worse than being filled with dread 5 days a week at the thought of going to a crap job.

Hmmm... What has that got to do with anything?

Can you not see the logic in what I'm saying or do you think I'm taking the p!ss.

How about sitting at home without a job and having bills to pay?
Grow up.

Solnskaya · 29-07-2011 12:11AM

If you have to ask a bunch of strangers if you're doing the right thing, maybe you should have a little think. What exactly is going to be so wonderful about a new job? Can't really imagine asking on here about what I should do for a living or wether I was doing the right thing. Then again, maybe you are very young. A job is a job, comes down to money really. My own advice, forget a job, jobs are a waste of your life. Find a way to do somthing you love for yourself, then work is really just messing. I spend most days just messing at what I like, other people call it work, but I cal it getting paid to do what i'd do anyway.

Pompey Magnus · 29-07-2011 12:19AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

And yet some of those who are remembered as the greatest people in history are precisely those who threw caution to the winds for something they believed in.

To quote Journey: "Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues, but the movie never ends it goes on, and on, and on, and on..."

Sure, you could take a chance and lose. Better to try and lose, then to spend the rest of your life wondering if you could have won.

True the great winners of history are the people with that attitude, but so have the great losers too. For every person who took a gamble and it succeeded there are a hundred who tried the same and failed spectacularly...history doesn't tend to remember them though.

Lady von Purple · 29-07-2011 01:54AM

Solnskaya wrote: »

If you have to ask a bunch of strangers if you're doing the right thing, maybe you should have a little think. What exactly is going to be so wonderful about a new job? Can't really imagine asking on here about what I should do for a living or wether I was doing the right thing.

OP actually came on here looking to be wished well in the jobhunt. Seems fairly decided on the course of action. I say, fair play, too many people on the 'you're lucky to have a job' bandwagon. Such a depressing frame of mind when you hate your job, your bosses and/or aren't keen on your co-workers either.

Princess Peach · 29-07-2011 02:49AM

I would also love a new job or a career but don't want to start looking till I know whats going on with my masters application.

G'luck!

Saila · 29-07-2011 03:27AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Where's the dislike button?

beside the sarcasm detector

Jopari87 · 29-07-2011 03:37AM

Best of luck op. Think this Mark Twain quote is fairly apt:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

wolf moon · 29-07-2011 07:26AM

Thanks guys.

I stick to the current job until I find something else, then I leave it giving the appropriate notice, etc. I don't want more crap around, but it's really time to move on, I can't handle more frustration.

Have a nice day folks.

watna · 29-07-2011 07:37AM

The team I work in really need staff at the moment, but you'd have to commute to NZ so it might be a bit of a pain. We do have a lot of cake and biscuits in the office if that helps!

Best of luck with it - having been stuck in a miserable job before I say go for it. Being miserable at work colours everything, it really affects you, imo.

enda1 · 29-07-2011 09:51AM

Good man OP.

Made that decision myself a few weeks ago. Had come back from a long weekend in London to my home in Belgium and said feck this, sick of Belgium and sick of my work. That evening after work I wrote a CV and applied to a could of online recruiter advertised jobs based in London. 30 minutes later got a call from a recruiter and got the interview the following Monday. Accepted and quit my job that week!

Extra special piece though is the garden leave. God I love garden leave. Being paid to stay at home cause I "know too much". Hah.

The hardest bit OP is to make the decision, after that everything will fall into place.

Dudess · 29-07-2011 09:58AM

Best of luck OP - don't know what some people here are on about. There's no risk in looking for a job while you're in a job... just keep it quiet from the bosses obviously. Being in a job that makes you miserable and affects your health is not good for you as you spend too much time there, so I hope you get out of that situation.

At the same time though, there's nothing spineless about feeling lucky to have a job when there are so many unemployed and having to emigrate. And don't mind that stuff about there being "plenty of jobs out there" - there aren't, plus think of the competition for the meagre number that there are. Depends on what you're skilled at too.

Feeling lucky to have a job is not the same as being grateful to have a job or willing to put up with employers taking the piss - it's just an acknowledgment that there are lots of qualified, experienced people being laid off/unable to find work, and by a twist of fate you're not one of them.

Getting entrepreneurial is a good idea, but just because there's an anecdote about one doing well doesn't mean it's the same across the board - even established businesses are collapsing right now.

7Sins · 29-07-2011 11:57AM

Can I have your job then?

Akrasia · 29-07-2011 12:15PM

"if you don't like your job you don't strike, you just do a half assed job, that's the American way"

Best of luck finding a new job

I hate my job too, but it appears that in this game of musical chairs the music has stopped and I'm stuck here for the foreseeable future.

Would love to train to be a teacher but there is no way in hell I can afford to go back to college when I have a family to support.

Lord TSC · 29-07-2011 12:30PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Would love to train to be a teacher but there is no way in hell I can afford to go back to college when I have a family to support.

Even apart from the money aspect, it would be suicidal to leave a job and train as a teacher at the moment. There's 2,000 new ones after being released into an already over-saturated market, and the redeployment scheme is eating up the small handful of jobs there is.

gravityisalie · 29-07-2011 12:37PM

cassid wrote: »

Fair play to you and wish you well.

I have been dealing with loads of Irish companies in the last few weeks and the amount of times I have to send follow up emails, phone calls to businesses to get quotes or actually buy items. I thought most businesses would be really customer friendly now with the recession and would love people buying from them but apparently not.

same in my line of work , it's a total piss take

So I started looking for a new job

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