I’m in a bit of a quandary and wonder if people can relate and give some advice please.
I’m currently in a permanent job, the pay is ok, nothing special but more than enough to live on ok but I really don’t like the job, the people I work with are really nice but the work is just horrible - quite complex, problematic and deal with a lot of angry people.
Since Covid I’ve been working from home about 95% of the time and that is the only reason I’ve stayed in the job this long, working from home has been brilliant for so many reasons. However, we’ve been told we must come back to the workplace 3 days a week from August and for me that’s the nail in the coffin for this job. I want to leave.
I’m fortunate to have enough savings to not need to work for about 2-3 years. I would like to start by giving trading markets a proper go for 6 months, see if I can make it work. If that fails I’m keen to retrain to do something like plastering and become self employed but I’m not totally sure I can see myself doing that but the money is good and I like the idea of being my own boss. I don’t want to work 5 days a week, 8:30-5pm any more, writing all these days off my life doing boring problematic work, especially if I have to be in the work place each day. I could even get by on some part time work if need be.
My mind is desperately wanting to hand my notice in and break free but then another part is thinking it’s a bit risky, I’ve got a guaranteed job here that pays ok, what if my plans to make money off my own back fails, then what?
Has anyone been in a similar situation and just quit a job? How did it work out, any regrets or did everything work out better?
I’m currently in a permanent job, the pay is ok, nothing special but more than enough to live on ok but I really don’t like the job, the people I work with are really nice but the work is just horrible - quite complex, problematic and deal with a lot of angry people.
Since Covid I’ve been working from home about 95% of the time and that is the only reason I’ve stayed in the job this long, working from home has been brilliant for so many reasons. However, we’ve been told we must come back to the workplace 3 days a week from August and for me that’s the nail in the coffin for this job. I want to leave.
I’m fortunate to have enough savings to not need to work for about 2-3 years. I would like to start by giving trading markets a proper go for 6 months, see if I can make it work. If that fails I’m keen to retrain to do something like plastering and become self employed but I’m not totally sure I can see myself doing that but the money is good and I like the idea of being my own boss. I don’t want to work 5 days a week, 8:30-5pm any more, writing all these days off my life doing boring problematic work, especially if I have to be in the work place each day. I could even get by on some part time work if need be.
My mind is desperately wanting to hand my notice in and break free but then another part is thinking it’s a bit risky, I’ve got a guaranteed job here that pays ok, what if my plans to make money off my own back fails, then what?
Has anyone been in a similar situation and just quit a job? How did it work out, any regrets or did everything work out better?