At End Of Tether With My Job...

[Orang Utan]

but the lazy bit irked me greatly, and it's NOT as simple as "just do it", that's facile simple-minded marketing crap, isn't it?

But it IS that simple sometime - hand in resignation, sign up with temp agency and start thinking about what to do next.

 

[Dubversion]

But it IS that simple sometime - hand in resignation, sign up with temp agency and start thinking about what to do next.

i have no savings and a lot of outgoings. it's not impossible, but i really can't just walk.

 

[hammerntongues]

You seem like a person who has a very wide range of close friends and has an enjoyable social life outside work hours so a move away from that would probably too great a wrench to consider but have you thought of VSO ?
A good friend of my wife has been working overseas now for 2 years , in Papua New Guinea in his case , he enjoyed it so much that he has just moved in to another position after finishing his first term ,He is early 30`s

Does the experience you have in your present job give you enough of a CV to guarantee employment if you were to return to it or similar at a later date or is it leave and no return type situation ?

whatever the situation good luck in your efforts

 

[aqua]

i have no savings and a lot of outgoings. it's not impossible, but i really can't just walk.

I was in exactly the same position *strokes HUGE loan and credit card debts* so I worked out what was the minimum salary I could have and still be able to eat (I gave up the social life for a while) and then worked from there rather than trying to find a job with same salary esp when I didn't know what i was looking for

 

[Orang Utan]

i have no savings and a lot of outgoings. it's not impossible, but i really can't just walk.

As I mentioned earlier, I didn't walk, but was pushed and I was in a similar financial situation to you - I found work straight away with very little hassle and I had a lot less transferable skills than you have.
Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway.
Awaken The Giant Within

 

[equationgirl]

Dubversion, didn't mean to imply you were lazy (sorry, no offence was meant) but lots of people do whinge about their jobs and do nothing to change it.

You say you have huge outgoings and no savings, so just jacking your job in isn't an option. True, but you CAN start thinking about what you would need to do in order to minimise your outgoings, start putting some savings by, how long that would take so you would be in a position to leave.

Took me a six months to decide I wasn't happy in my last job, three months to get an offer of a phd place then I had to work three months notice before I could leave, so a year in all, but I was making changes, reducing outgoings and savings all that time to make doing a phd happen.

Only you can change your life, nobody else can.

 

[phildwyer]

You'd need to save five years' salary, that's why!

Not really. Lots of jobs can be done from anywhere these days. Like I say, you can live very well somewhere very nice for 2K pa. So if you can save 4K you have two years' worth of cushion. You need to make about 200 quid a month after that. More or less anyone can write well enough to sell freelance travel stories, and if you sold just one short piece a month you'd be pretty close to that target. The internet alone is full of journals crying out for freelance contributors, so that should be easy. Of course you'd have to be prepared to live in Laos or Nicaragua or Mozambique, or maybe to move around the third world a bit. But *anything's* better than spending your life doing something you hate, or so I'd have thought.