Should I quit my job before finding another one?
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I'm not really sure what to do about my situation tbh. I hate my job, I've felt like this for a long time, but lately since a lot of people who I became very good friends with left and a load of new people I can't stand started, my job actually depresses me. It's starting to impact on the rest of my life and I feel like I can't bear it any longer. I had some time off due to illness and holiday recently and I felt so much better not having to go there, like a different person, so much happier and care free. It made me think that I have to leave.
I'm a student and currently work 10 hours a week (with overtime), I have no debt except student loands and have around £500 savings. I could open a student account with an interest free overdraft of a couple of grand to tide me over until I find another job and I get over a £1000 from student finance again in a few months.
I'm just worried I won't be able to find another job (even though I was offerred two recently and turned them down due to various reasons which I now regret) and will get into loads of debt and be even more depressed than I am now. Plus I am going on holiday with my friends in August and I'm worried I won't have found a job by then and won't be able to afford to go.
Has anyone got any advice please? I'm desperate, sorry for the rambling post btw
I'm a student and currently work 10 hours a week (with overtime), I have no debt except student loands and have around £500 savings. I could open a student account with an interest free overdraft of a couple of grand to tide me over until I find another job and I get over a £1000 from student finance again in a few months.
I'm just worried I won't be able to find another job (even though I was offerred two recently and turned them down due to various reasons which I now regret) and will get into loads of debt and be even more depressed than I am now. Plus I am going on holiday with my friends in August and I'm worried I won't have found a job by then and won't be able to afford to go.
Has anyone got any advice please? I'm desperate, sorry for the rambling post btw
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I felt just like that one time and I decided to leave. Took me a year to get another job and the feel good factor of being away from it quickly wore off after a month or so. I even regretted leaving after a few months even though I hated it so much so I wouldn't recommend doing that unless you're loaded or you can walk into another job within a month.
I used to work 14 hours, then dropped it to 10 because I couldn't stand working there three days a week. So I don't get that much money from it really just over £200 a month and I get by fine. I work in retail, it's never really been the industry for me tbh from the start I didn't feel suited. But lately they keep pushing me to give the hard sell to the customers and I feel really uncomfortable with it. My area manager has turned very nasty since her husband passed away as well and takes great delight in being a bitch to everyone especially me as she knows I'm scared of her.
A load of people left because they were sick of it and I don't enjoy working with the new people who have started. They aren't sociable at all and I find them really dull and hard to talk to, they also tell lies about me to try and get me into trouble (sounds very childish I know) and are unwilling to do anyone any favours ever like cover/swap shifts or anything
The only reason I stayed there so long was because I had loads of friends there and now they have gone there is no good side to it at all.
Tbh it sounds like you've already made your mind up and you just want someone to tell you leaving is the right thing to do, but be very very careful. Not only are jobs hard to find at the moment, but it won't be THAT long til the school leavers (who are a lot cheaper to employ) are applying for the jobs you might want, and most people at the moment, with so many applications to choose from, will pick someone who isn't restricted as to the hours they can work (like a student is).
I totally understand why leaving seems like the best thing to do, but I would advice you to be very very careful before you decide, what would you lose per month without that wage? What happens if it takes you over a year to find another job - how much debt will you have in the meantime? Don't forget that 10 hours a week less at work is (apart from anything else) 10 hours a week extra to be bored and go shopping, or be bored and sit at home eating, etc, so you might find you spend more once you stop working.
All stuff to think about.
Although it is hard in the current climate, I would apply fro jobs whilst still employed - it shows an Employer you can stick at a job, and also you have some self motivation to better yourself.
Rightly or wrongly if you become unemployed, the longer it goes on, the harder it will be to get another job, and Empoyers still prefer job changing staff rather than unemployed staff.
Life aint easy but stick at it and you will eventually get a more suitable job.
Good Luck.
But it pays my bills and there is absolutely nothing else about at the moment in this country. So I suck it up and just do it. Although I have dropped my hours significantly because I find being there to depressing.
I have in the past quit a job without having another one lined up, but it wasnt during a recession and I had a few months worth of savings to rely on which I dont have now. Even so, I landed a temp job within a week of quitting did that for 9 months and then got the job i'm doing now.
You would be mad to do that in the current climate imo.
Although if you are willing to work abroad there are places that will kill for a hard working qualified brit.
Don't quit. I have learnt this the hard way.
Since then, I have had another job where I was really really depressed, but I knew to quit without having another job to go to would have only made things worse, I stuck it out and now I am glad.
You can be proud of yourself after, that you didn't give up and you saw it through.
In the meantime, just keep telling yourself there is a light at the end of the tunnel, you will ifnd another job, you might know know when and where but you will
Exactly
Ive got two interviews next week when i was unemployed it took several months to get even 1 interview let a lone 2 in the space of a week
The additional agro will at least pay for a nice holiday
Sticking it out allows you to be choosy about where you end up next rather than running out of cash and being forced to take something just because it's all that's on offer
Maybe because you can just say to the new employer that you're looking to better yourself with this great opportunity. An unemployed person who left their last job voluntarily might just come across as a quitter and someone who doesn't work well with others even though both situations are essentially much the same. That's one theory.
There was a change around in management, and I fessed up to my new manager, who has literally been amazing and is changing everything around, albeit gradually so everyone is happy. Although its still not amazing (I dont have enough work to do, although I am slowly getting more and volunteering to do things), its much more enjoyable than it was before.
I know how you feel, and I was literally a day away from giving my notice in. If you are unhappy, you are unhappy. If its THAT bad, I'd get a loan and look for another job. But only you can decide whether a few months off work is worth another grand or so added to your student loan.
You don't even like the job and theres plenty out there!:mad:
Almost the same as you, left my employer March last year and at the moment still unemployed despite multiple interviews.
However, I am not really that stressed out over leaving, has when I was working the company made my life hell, but do want to get back into the working routine soon to start earning more than the £60 a week I get now.
People are saying here that it is easier to get another job whilst working. This isn't always the case. When out of work you are able to spend as much time possible job-searching, sending off CV's, ringing up agents & companies, attening interviews at short notice.
All this you can't really do when working as when you get home the agents have left and you don't like answering your mobile at work and it isn't always easy enough to book time off for interviews.
In my case, something will turn up when it is ready. God will choose when that time is for me. It can be rough some times, but other times it's ok.
Spot on - I just had to leave my job last week! I couldn't take it anymore!
It was only supposed to be a temp job for a week through an agency, but the client extended the contract for 3 months, with an internal offer at the end, where I would go on another 3 months probation :yawn:
Well for me, it's worked out great, as I've had a nice bit of rest, had plenty of time to apply for new stuff, and I have bagged an interview, which is tomorrow, for a job that is much more suited to me than the one I was doing - I doubt I would have came across this great opportunity if I'd have stayed in my former job, which I detested every minute of.
Not that I would 'advise' it as such, but if you really hate a job, just get the hell out of there (especially if you have savings).
There's nothing like a good bit of pressure to up the ante on your job hunting e.g not having an income
The majority of people who really want a job will get one too - I don't understand the people who can't find one to be honest. If you're unskilled, there are plenty of unskilled positions where you could start tomorrow. If you are skilled, then are plently of roles which require certain skills.
I'm sure that the people who claim they can't find work are refusing to do certain jobs, and maybe only applying to one or two that suit them.
If I don't get this job tomorrow, I'm going back to bar work (which is quite frankly beneath my level of skill) until I find something better, or more appropriate.