Decision - Should I chuck it all in?
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Been mulling this over for a while now as my current job bores me half to death. I'm thinking of giving it all up and going back to college, I'm fed up with sitting in the office and want to work outside NT or NRA type of thing you know good and wholesome fresh air.
We could manage on the wifes salary and could always dip into the Cerbera fund if needs be - the Chimaera will be staying no matter what!
Has anyone else done this kind of thing? I don't think I'm too old at 34 what does the assembled think?
We could manage on the wifes salary and could always dip into the Cerbera fund if needs be - the Chimaera will be staying no matter what!
Has anyone else done this kind of thing? I don't think I'm too old at 34 what does the assembled think?
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From my own view point I'm actually getting pretty bored with IT sales and working from home although is very nice and lots of freedom is VERY boring and lonely. I am actually considering applying to join the Police. I'm sick of the commercial pressure of hitting target and making rich people richer (and myself only slightly better off), I think I could bring a lot of diplomatic skill and help to the table for the good of the general public not just for a ltd company.
totally agree - the mentality of making cash for the rich and stuff the poor grates after a while. i'd like to do something more worthwhile. i considered a VSO then career change, albeit with mass pay cut but much better quality of life. there's certainly more to life than money (but it sure helps!).
i'm in the same boat (single) - but that can help when totally changing one's lifestyle!
I can thoroughly recommend a career change. I am using many of my skills from my previous career, but I've had to learn a shed-load more which has been fascinating and has done me good quite frankly! I'm earning far less than I used to but I am so much happier and relaxed. It's expanded my previous goal of 'make money' into something far broader and more interesting.
Luckily for a me, internal politics left me shafted in my former corporate life so I was left with few options other than to get another job or pursue this dream. Otherwise there would have been no way on earth I'd have left a well paid job.
I don't regret doing my former job as that funded this start up, but I got out just at the right time, before I became another tedious corporate man boring people at parties about my 'important' project
Luckily for a me, internal politics left me shafted in my former corporate life so I was left with few options other than to get another job or pursue this dream. Otherwise there would have been no way on earth I'd have left a well paid job.
I don't regret doing my former job as that funded this start up, but I got out just at the right time, before I became another tedious corporate man boring people at parties about my 'important' project
I'd love to say go for it... but I'm going to exercise some caution here.
I've come out of Loughborough Uni (one of the country's top 10) with a 2:1 in a numerate discipline, a diploma, and I've got a stack of A-Levels at decent grades attached to my name. I've also got a lot of work experience in a variety of different fields, and finding a decent job ain't easy... (although I am gainfully employed straight out of the box).
Witness another story. A good friend of mine went to work for a large Merchant Bank after A-levels. Did very well, got promoted and ended up trading... and loved the job and life. After 3 years, she jacke dit all in and went to Uni. Again, came out with a 2:1 and has had numerous interviews since... but is currently temping - nowt out there.
It's a big risk, and by the time you finish the world will be a different place... but maybe a Open University degree is an option?
I've come out of Loughborough Uni (one of the country's top 10) with a 2:1 in a numerate discipline, a diploma, and I've got a stack of A-Levels at decent grades attached to my name. I've also got a lot of work experience in a variety of different fields, and finding a decent job ain't easy... (although I am gainfully employed straight out of the box).
Witness another story. A good friend of mine went to work for a large Merchant Bank after A-levels. Did very well, got promoted and ended up trading... and loved the job and life. After 3 years, she jacke dit all in and went to Uni. Again, came out with a 2:1 and has had numerous interviews since... but is currently temping - nowt out there.
It's a big risk, and by the time you finish the world will be a different place... but maybe a Open University degree is an option?
What are you chucking in? Being on the endless merry-go-round called 'routine'. Doing what you know when people tell you to do it.
34 is no age at all – so you're certainly not too old. If the wife is OK subsidising the household for a bit til you find your feet then that's even better too. This is a BIG decision – but youy've started thinking about the possibility – which is a start.
Write things down – pros and cons – endlessly compare feelings and expereiences with others (like on here) – and then decide.
Surely you'll only be worse off financially (certainly not mentally or spiritually) – and if that's all and you can still eat and have shelter who really wants/needs more? It's only 'modern lifestyle pressure' bollox.
No pockets in a Shroud ...
34 is no age at all – so you're certainly not too old. If the wife is OK subsidising the household for a bit til you find your feet then that's even better too. This is a BIG decision – but youy've started thinking about the possibility – which is a start.
Write things down – pros and cons – endlessly compare feelings and expereiences with others (like on here) – and then decide.
Surely you'll only be worse off financially (certainly not mentally or spiritually) – and if that's all and you can still eat and have shelter who really wants/needs more? It's only 'modern lifestyle pressure' bollox.
No pockets in a Shroud ...
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Luckily for a me, internal politics left me shafted in my former corporate life
Ted - Same happened to me with the same company that .mark works for - I was so gloriously shafted in the biggest way possible after 4 years of being the top boy on the sales floor. They officially did me for fraud but there was a hideously hidden political agenda going on and that was the reall reason to 'put' something on me. I was very lucky that a channel partner who I worked very closely with lapped me up and offered me a job soon as they found out I had left... sorry for boring everyone with this story
mungo – the Police idea is a good 'un. Sense of helping the community – fair rate of pay, uniform so the 'laydeeez' love ya, Wish I'd thought about it at 18, be ready to retire in EIGHT years I would.
Had a mate who joined up when we left school – he's now a Det Chief Inspector or something at Slough CID – tells me it's not all glamour though – he's had tp pick up what's left of people after shootings etc. I always think of him as Regan from the Sweeney. There again, I always see myself as Regan from the Sweeney too. (Misguided or what)
Mind you – you may get a 'squad car' to play with
No way are you too young - but think carefully about the financial implications - can you really live with your wife being the bread-winner? (I know thats not PC, but it is a fact to consider). If you can, and she gives you her support, then get it on and change your direction.
Do a pro/cons list first tho to help the decision, it'll be a big step so think it through carefully. Good Luck!
Do a pro/cons list first tho to help the decision, it'll be a big step so think it through carefully. Good Luck!
If we could survive on my partners income, I'd be out like a shot. I just don't feel like I'm achieving anything here. I was on the dole for four years when I came out of un (92) and I remember how shit it was to have NO money, but on the other hand, I know I could survive if it came to it.
Now I've finally got a TVR it would be difficult to get rid of it though
Now I've finally got a TVR it would be difficult to get rid of it though
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Been mulling this over for a while now as my current job bores me half to death. I'm thinking of giving it all up and going back to college, I'm fed up with sitting in the office and want to work outside NT or NRA type of thing you know good and wholesome fresh air.
We could manage on the wifes salary and could always dip into the Cerbera fund if needs be - the Chimaera will be staying no matter what!
Has anyone else done this kind of thing? I don't think I'm too old at 34 what does the assembled think?
Mark.
8 years ago I gave up a well-paid professional position with a good salary, company car, promotion prospects etc to form a start-up company based on my belief that I could exploit my existing skills to much better reward for me and build myself a business I could actually enjoy running for the rest of my life.
8 years without a "proper" job and I haven't starved yet. In fact I've had ups and downs with some years where I've earned practically nothing and other years when I've gone out and bought a car for cash.
I made the life change at 29 and I haven't regretted it at all. I control my professional life - no one else. So much more satisfaction. Like Ted I've had to develop a wide range of new skills that have made me much more confident..and happy.
Building a new business was my choice of thing to do...but there are plenty of others equally "worthy" of your life's work.
Do your research carefully before leaping into whatever you choose to do. Be pretty sure its what you want. But don't be afraid to GO FOR IT.
only half bored in your job - isnt most of the country.??
I work to enable me to do the things I enjoy, but beleive that almost whatever job you do you will get bored for at least 50% of the time.
I bet there are PH here with hundreds of different jobs and I bet they are all board with their job want something more exciting/ relaxing.
Pay is a big factor, planning for retirement (boreing)paying mortgage, cars,
Its getting the balance of free time to work. Have you thought of not working from home but renting a cheap office and going in 9 to 5/6 and then going home. Working from home just drags and you never escape, perhaps consider the above.
I would look at how to improve your current working practice rather than give it up and go back to Uni/college/total career change.
I work to enable me to do the things I enjoy, but beleive that almost whatever job you do you will get bored for at least 50% of the time.
I bet there are PH here with hundreds of different jobs and I bet they are all board with their job want something more exciting/ relaxing.
Pay is a big factor, planning for retirement (boreing)paying mortgage, cars,
Its getting the balance of free time to work. Have you thought of not working from home but renting a cheap office and going in 9 to 5/6 and then going home. Working from home just drags and you never escape, perhaps consider the above.
I would look at how to improve your current working practice rather than give it up and go back to Uni/college/total career change.
I've got to say I would thouroughly recommend this. Come this time next year I will be at UMIST studying for my computation degree. It all came about because I am so thouroughly bored in this job, and my boss has a real hatred towards me, not sure why, but lets say she doesn't like it when I put her right.
My girlfriend also lives in Poland and has three years left of her courses, so rather than wasting three years earning a mediocre wage and pining for her, I will be at uni doing something constructive. I'm only 23 so I'm sure I will enjoy a pretty studenty lifestyle, given the girl being over here it would be different (and no I don't mean I'm gonna shag every fresher).
As far as I can see there is absolutely no reason to keep doing what you are doing when you don't like it. I really don't like this job, fair enough, it is a portal to PistonHeads, but looking at PH all day even gets a bit tedious after a while (Sorry Tedster).
I think you are lucky that you are in a position where you can keep the Chim, live off the wifeys wage and should definitely go for it. I'm gonna have to sell my grale and buy a 205 1.9gti. This is ok though, because I'm sure it will be worth it. I may earn no more when I come out of uni but I will have a better job doing something I want to do, and given greater experience will quickly earn more than I could have possibly done if I stayed here.
My girlfriend also lives in Poland and has three years left of her courses, so rather than wasting three years earning a mediocre wage and pining for her, I will be at uni doing something constructive. I'm only 23 so I'm sure I will enjoy a pretty studenty lifestyle, given the girl being over here it would be different (and no I don't mean I'm gonna shag every fresher).
As far as I can see there is absolutely no reason to keep doing what you are doing when you don't like it. I really don't like this job, fair enough, it is a portal to PistonHeads, but looking at PH all day even gets a bit tedious after a while (Sorry Tedster).
I think you are lucky that you are in a position where you can keep the Chim, live off the wifeys wage and should definitely go for it. I'm gonna have to sell my grale and buy a 205 1.9gti. This is ok though, because I'm sure it will be worth it. I may earn no more when I come out of uni but I will have a better job doing something I want to do, and given greater experience will quickly earn more than I could have possibly done if I stayed here.
I know what you mean .mark - this is something that I have been thinking about more and more recently, I have a new daughter and my wife doesn't work so my options are somewhat limited.
In your case I would say it needs careful consideration as often the grass appears greener... but if it what you really want to do go for it - you don't want to look back in 20 years time and think I wish. Either way I would advise sitting down and discussing it with someone (writing the stuff down was also a great idea) - unless you address it head on it will remain a nagging thought for years.
Good luck.
"Try not, do or do not" (or something like that!)
Yoda 19??
(Yoda being the short one who used to stay in the office while the rest of the Sweeney sped around the countryside)
In your case I would say it needs careful consideration as often the grass appears greener... but if it what you really want to do go for it - you don't want to look back in 20 years time and think I wish. Either way I would advise sitting down and discussing it with someone (writing the stuff down was also a great idea) - unless you address it head on it will remain a nagging thought for years.
Good luck.
"Try not, do or do not" (or something like that!)
Yoda 19??
(Yoda being the short one who used to stay in the office while the rest of the Sweeney sped around the countryside)
Give it some thought.
I did, ...about two seconds:
I joined 'the company' to head the software design team that was developing their flagship film mixing console. However a couple of poeple at the company took a dislike to me the moment I started. I suppose I was seen as a threat. I kept my head low and continued working but always seemed to come up against opposition, in one form or another. It came to a head after I had presented the director with a document outlining plans for future proofing the companys technology - two weeks later it was still on the floor were he had left it. The two guys had borrowed the ideas and made their own recommendations - but as I hadn't finished the draft at the time it was borrowed, I hadn't got to the 'this is how we won't go bankrupt' conclusion. The director decided to go with the other guys plans and pulled me up for wasting two years developement money - in what became quite a heated debate I shouted 'FCUK THE LOT OF YOU' and walked out.
I recieved many offers of employment from the studios I had visited during my time there - I had made a lot of friends. I did a years freelance work bumming around Europe (hence the Griff) and settled into Bristol at the start of this year. Mate, when one door shuts, it's
freefall all the way. Make contingencies, settle debts, don't burn any bridges and best of British lad. You may surprise yourself!!
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