Buzzy 12:36 Fri Dec 12
Hating job
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Any of you in the same boat?
Work as an accountant for a small hedge fund and really want to do something different but have a wife and a kid, with another on the way. Very difficult to move industry or take a backward step. Anyone had same issues?
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BetterthanKaka
12:38 Fri Dec 12
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Depends if you know exactly what you want to do, Buzzy son.
If you do, go for it.
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Buzzy
12:44 Fri Dec 12
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Just want a cushier job, cant really change professions but how do you go about taking a backward step?!
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worm
12:44 Fri Dec 12
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Lazy cunt
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Coffee
12:49 Fri Dec 12
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What are the specific things you hate about the job?
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Cheezey Bell-End
12:51 Fri Dec 12
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I've hated every job I've ever done.. I think accounting would push me over the edge.
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Spandex Sidney
12:51 Fri Dec 12
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Yes mate, I recognise that. I worked in banking for 21 years (retail, not investment) and did really well for myself. However I hated it.
In 2008 I had had enough and started my own business in a completely different sphere. To everyones' surprise, including my own after starting in Sept 2009 it was quite successful. However I had a crisis earlier this year when I realised it had just become another environment I hated. I had nearly 80 employees and it had a life of it's own and I started to resent the constraints it put on me.
I scaled it back in the summer, now have about 50 people and I put someone in to run it day to day and I have little involvement really. I have concentrated in paying off the debt and in the last 2 years hve paid off about £150k in debt, leaving about £60k left which I expect to have repaid in the next 18 months. After that and i'm off the hook personally (everything requires directors guarantees) I will cut my ties to it completely and basically become an investor, if it keeps paying me out then great but I'm so sick of it after working 80 hour weeks for 4 and a half years, in some ways i'm almost back to where I was.
After christmas I'm gonna do my HGV licence, I quite fancy a bit of that and use the business as a pension plan. I am a grafter really but I'm sick of working with muggy people so I fancy a bit of professional alone time. Plus with the HGV licence you can always work, assuming your health is okay.
Life is too short for being a work wanker. I left my £125,000 a year job at Barclays and was more than happy to hand back the keys to my E Class, I was done with that shit.
People said I was mad but anyone who stays in a job they hate, no matter the cash involved, is just wasting their life.
It home to me when I went to my nan's funeral, god bless her. She was 94 when she died and she came from Canning Town and lived through the blitz. She died and left a grand total of £900. At her funeral no one talked about the fact she was poor her whole life or what an amazing career she didn't have or how much money she left. All they talked about was how much a darling she was and how she made everyone feel so much better when they were in trouble. Because she lived through the blitz and lost her dad and brother during the war she reckoned that nothing was more important than enjoying life and loving your friends and family.
I make her right.
Do it, do it now. Go and become a postman or whatever it is that won't rot your corporate whoring soul anymore before it's too late. If you think your big pension and expensive house will comfort you in your old age when you have wasted your life doing something you hate, think again.
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Rossal
1:16 Fri Dec 12
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Just took a wage drop and moved into a big firm from a small one where i hated it
Couldn't be happier now, realised what i've been missing as now i actually wake up and don't mind one bit about going to work.
Sid is right, don't stay somewhere thats making you unhappy, what's the point ? If you are unhappy and miserable you it will affect your family down the line
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ohgodno
1:20 Fri Dec 12
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I got bored with the 9-5 and became a gentleman burglar. You have to follow your dreams. My dream was nicking stuff but being polite about it.
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Stubbo
1:44 Fri Dec 12
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Know exactly what you mean.
I think i'd be the same with any job really where I'm beholden to someone else.
Work gets far too much in the way of the things I'd rather be doing.
Not a lot of alternatives though.
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mashed in maryland
1:46 Fri Dec 12
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In my opinion unless you have a family to support then life is too short to be spending the majority of your days doing a job you hate doing.
Probably flies at odds with the "career" mindset we all think we should have but these days it's never too late to switch or start doing something else.
Duncan Bannatyne was unemployed and skint up til his mid 30s.
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mashed in maryland
1:47 Fri Dec 12
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Then again I'm probably not the sort of person you should take advice from.
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Takashi Miike
1:47 Fri Dec 12
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Spandex Sidney 12:51 Fri Dec 12
great post
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The Dursley Massive
1:49 Fri Dec 12
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Can't you just apply for a lesser paid, lower effort accountancy job?
I leave my current role in a few days for less money and less responsibility. Already feels like a great decision.
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mashed in maryland
1:49 Fri Dec 12
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Spandex Sidney 12:51 Fri Dec 12
I'd agree with all that but I'd also agree with your mates that you're fucking mad giving up 125k a year.
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Joke Whole
1:50 Fri Dec 12
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I must confess that for over 20 years I absolutely loved my job(s) at BT. Every day going into work I looked forward to, whether it was the work itself or the people around me.
Then it all went downhill rapidly. I started to become surrounded by people who had no basic understanding of the work required - they wanted that report on their desk by close of play because they had promised their boss I could produce results faster than it was physically possible. Their bonus depended on it.
I left and set myself up as a consultant, where work offers came in so fast I had to beat some agencies off with the proverbial.
In fact, the only thing that held me back professionally was my ex- then deciding she'd had enough of the kids and handed full responsibility over to me (even now I suspect she was trying to use our kids as a weapon to knock me back down a peg or two for having the audacity to end the marriage). Again, a change of strategy was needed, but one I never regretted or considered not doing.
You spend one third of your waking hours doing something you hate and you only really have yourself to blame: find something you enjoy, even if just a stop-gap, and your whole life - including that of those who depend on you will be vastly improved.
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boleyn8420
1:54 Fri Dec 12
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I fucking hate my boss he is a miserable cunt who constantly moans about West Ham, drinks to much, is always late and blames everything and everyone but himself when things go wrong. Oh, hang on I work for myself.
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charleyfarley
2:05 Fri Dec 12
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Good post Spandex nice to see the other side of things, the job I had i could have doubled my salary by working extra shifts. I never done an extra one, but watching and being involved with all of my kid's education and activities, in my view no money could buy.
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Sven Roeder
2:25 Fri Dec 12
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Finished a contract a few weeks ago and have jumped into another this week (am an accountant) which is 3 months and they think I'm going permanent
I'm not
Life is too short to work in bad atmospheres and this is one where it's owned by one very wealthy guy who is demanding and manages by WHIM.
Not for me, life is too short not to enjoy where you spend the vast majority of your week.
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worm
2:38 Fri Dec 12
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I was taking home 2k a month back in 1997. anything I wanted I just went out and bought. No saving up for me.
The job nearly killed me though. No amount of money is worth that.
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