You’re train goes past a garbage processing center and you wish that’s where you were headed today.
You would rather study during work hours than actually do proper work.
You consider cooking your chicken slightly raw in the hopes you will contract food poisioning and then not have to go in.
You call in sick and watch the Gilmore Girls all day and note that even though that show is really boring, at least it wasn’t as boring as a day at work.
You go to the pub and down two large glasses of whine at lunch, just to make it through the rest of the day.
You start to not care anymore about all the idiotic words that come out of your mouth, and what a moron you must look like in front of colleagues.
You were a jumper to work everyday with a whole in the elbow, point it out to colleagues, and not care.
The thing is though, in the end you know that you really don’t hate your job that much when you take into account all the work it takes to get a new job.
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I’m rather fed up with my job at the moment, and on a sick day yesterday (yes, I really was sick), as I tortured myself through three hours of the Gilmore Girls, I had a look at Prospects to see if the financial services industry was the right one for me. After having worked in investment management at an engineering firm, I am really starting to think that I want to go back towards working in finance in a different sector – not in the financial services sector. I don’t know if its the credit crunch that is giving me jitters, but I feel there’s something wrong with trying to make money out of nothing. Just like when I worked for ICSTIS (now PhonePayPlus) I found it really irritating working for a company where you make something – but without any emphasis on money.
Thus on the Prospects website, when I was asked to consider my skill set, and then interests I would like my job to pertain to, I was slightly unsettled when I clicked on ‘Creativity’ and ‘Make lots of money’ a red flag appeared saying that I couldn’t have both.
Interesting. I suppose I have more thinking to do.
Another thought would be to move out of the UK to another country – the whole world is open for this one, well, except for Canada unfortunately* – maybe in Europe like Switzerland, or perhaps Austrailia or somewhere in Asia like Singapore. My boyfriend is looking to potentially move jobs as well, and for his, the possibility of moving to another country is very real. Maybe its time we moved on from London?
Some thoughts on this one?
Well firstly, its a very big change. I don’t really know how I managed to get my guts together and move from Canada to London, especially so abruptly. At the time it felt like it was the right thing to do, and all other warning signals had vanished. Since then though, I’ve become quite the steady-nedy and therefore am rather apprehensive. We would have to finish our house first, and then put it on the market – which these days could take a while! We’d have to choose a good country – one not too far from Canada (although London is almost the furthest you could get from Calgary – Austrialia is closer flying over the Pacific), one that isn’t too hot because of the dogs, and one that is good for raising a family in. So we’re not too picky.
Nevertheless, there are a lot of thoughts running around in my head right now. I guess the only thing to do for the moment is grin and bear it.
At the end of the day, I remember what my Dad said to me on my 18th birthday: “Make sure you get a job that you love, because there’s nothing worse then getting up everyday for a job that you hate.” My addenum: Even if the job pays shitloads, its not worth it if you hate it.
