What do you work as? Do you like it?

Ken Shamrock · 10-05-2016 05:29PM

Account Manager for an aviation recruitment / flight crew leasing agency.

Despise It but cannot find the courage to leave a comfy job with great money to pursue something I actually want to do for many reasons, main ones being job security, I don't actually know what I'd LOVE to do and the possibility of failure.

I understand those reasons may seem ridiculous but I'm just stuck In this rut and every year my salary increases etc

wmpdd3 · 10-05-2016 05:39PM

I walked away from my job knowing that my grade would probably get generous redundancy soon, still it was worth it.

Happiness is everything. (though I have also had a close family member pass away recently, maybe that's what we all need to re evaluate our lives.)

Wanderer78 · 10-05-2016 08:55PM

Ken Shamrock wrote: »

Account Manager for an aviation recruitment / flight crew leasing agency.

Despise It but cannot find the courage to leave a comfy job with great money to pursue something I actually want to do for many reasons, main ones being job security, I don't actually know what I'd LOVE to do and the possibility of failure.

I understand those reasons may seem ridiculous but I'm just stuck In this rut and every year my salary increases etc

nothing ridiculous about that at all. job security is important particularly the older you get as most people have have serious responsibilities such as family and debts etc the older you get. id be beefing up on hobbies and interests, investigating career options, even ridiculous ones, as you never know! best of luck with it

line console zero · 14-05-2016 12:59PM

L'prof wrote: »

IT Intern for the last year and a half. Don't really enjoy the area I'm working in and worried I'll get cornered into doing this or similar for the rest of my "career"!

What's your area ? It can be easy to break off into another similar IT discipline if you do it early in your career. Also if you have a year and a half experience you should be able to get a real paid job. My company regularly hires people with 1 years experience.

L'prof · 14-05-2016 01:20PM

line console zero wrote: »

What's your area ? It can be easy to break off into another similar IT discipline if you do it early in your career. Also if you have a year and a half experience you should be able to get a real paid job. My company regularly hires people with 1 years experience.

Working in BI at the moment, but it's very new in the company and I'm just not sure if all the frustration is worth it. I'm lucky in the sense that I get paid pretty well as interns go and my SQL scripting has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months. Come the end of the year I'll be seriously considering my options as I'd be expecting them to offer me an associate contract then.

ALS · 14-05-2016 01:28PM

Apply to Irish rail they are currently recruiting internally but it will be offered externally fairly soon , good time to get your cv in at the moment

Hollister11 wrote: »

How do you become a train driver.

line console zero · 14-05-2016 01:32PM

L'prof wrote: »

line console zero wrote: »

What's your area ? It can be easy to break off into another similar IT discipline if you do it early in your career. Also if you have a year and a half experience you should be able to get a real paid job. My company regularly hires people with 1 years experience.

Working in BI at the moment, but it's very new in the company and I'm just not sure if all the frustration is worth it. I'm lucky in the sense that I get paid pretty well as interns go and my SQL scripting has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months. Come the end of the year I'll be seriously considering my options as I'd be expecting them to offer me an associate contract then.

Well if you're getting paid and can see a potential associate level at the end of it I can see why you stay. I work in network engineering/system admin and I've heard from my peers who work in the big banks that it's highly restrictive and stiff in it's processes (for obvious reasons).

So if your place is anything like that and if you're not happy, you can always try the same type of role in another industry. I work in media/broadcast and it's a blast. It's the same discipline of IT that my banking colleagues work at but a totally different atmosphere and ethic.

_Kaiser_ · 14-05-2016 01:42PM

Global IT Manager for an MNC

Love it (most days

)... have a very good team working for me who buy into what we're trying to do (I'm not into micromanagement, treat them as adults who know what's expected, and try to encourage/support people individually which in turn means they readily go that extra mile when needed), I have the latitude to run the department as I want, and have good relationships with senior management so that helps when we need/want to do something too. Every day is different which is a plus too.

Started off on helpdesk support way back when and gradually moved up that track until I moved into the management end of things and discovered I'm pretty good at it (apparently!

). Downsides are it's usually 12+ hour days and you're never really "off" a lot of the time, but it's worth it.

IvoryTower · 16-05-2016 09:11AM

it was going well until you said 12+ hours days, what about your life!

Wanderer78 · 16-05-2016 09:49AM

IvoryTower wrote:

it was going well until you said 12+ hours days, what about your life!

I do think a lot over look this problem which can be a serious one with dreadful effects

What do you work as? Do you like it?

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