Applying for a new job

[pritchp]

Im sooo tempted to apply for a new job...it would involve alot of overseas travel..it's what ive wanted to do

but...my current career is looking awesome but there will be alot of hard work ahead and im unhappy where i am...

im going to apply for it and see what happens...

does everyone agree you should be happy with what you do instead of miserable and making more money?

(im not saying what the job is)

 

[TURBO]

its all about the money for me mate!!

id wipe ass all day long if i got paid lots for it

 

[pritchp]

but thats ass wiping.. its not hard..just dirty haha

 

[Ollie133cup]

I go where the money is =D IDC if my place of work pisses me off as long a im getting paid ........

 

[Chicken]

Im the same as the others. You go to work for the money, happyness is a bonus in my eyes

 

[pritchp]

Sorry... the job would be paying me slightly more than im currently on.. but with less room for salary increase in the future unlike my current job (but i could loose my current job if i dont pass exams...)

 

[Mr_Ben]

The question is do you work to live or live to work?

However, considering you still live at home with mummy and daddy I'd say get enough money now behind you before you have to enter the real world where you have to pay for everything.

 

[pritchp]

So are you saying...go for the higher paying job now to get the most money before i move out?

 

[Mr_Ben]

The boy's quick I'll give him that.

 

[pritchp]

Haha you really don't like me do you

 

[maggi200]

TBH now is not the time to be chopping and changing unless you're 110% sure it's the right move. The fact you've started this thread says enough really.

Stick it out, do at least the AAT and look further into ACA or ACCA depending on the office you're in and see how you do with that. Regardless of where you go it's worthwhile doing

 

[DrDrew]

Well I'm afraid I may be giving alternate advice to the others here. I left a much more highly paid job to take up an offer of something I really wanted to do. You spend so much of your life at work, that if possible you should do something you enjoy IMO.

However much money you earn, you'll want that little more as you'll acclimatise to a way of living unless you force yourself to not. I'd say if there's something you really want to do, and you can live off the money it's worth a shot. (and when I say really want to do, I mean have a big drive to want to do it and you know what's involved, as opposed to having always thought doing a particular thing might be cool)

I'm now earning much less than I would have been if I'd stuck at my previous place (I was getting pretty big promotions, raises and bonuses there) but I'm much happier doing something awesome at a place that works well for me.

Others may disagree, but that's my 2p of having the chance to do something you really want, and I've not regretted going for it in the slightest.

 

[pritchp]

Well I'm afraid I may be giving alternate advice to the others here. I left a much more highly paid job to take up an offer of something I really wanted to do. You spend so much of your life at work, that if possible you should do something you enjoy IMO.

However much money you earn, you'll want that little more as you'll acclimatise to a way of living unless you force yourself to not. I'd say if there's something you really want to do, and you can live off the money it's worth a shot. (and when I say really want to do, I mean have a big drive to want to do it and you know what's involved, as opposed to having always thought doing a particular thing might be cool)

I'm now earning much less than I would have been if I'd stuck at my previous place (I was getting pretty big promotions, raises and bonuses there) but I'm much happier doing something awesome at a place that works well for me.

Others may disagree, but that's my 2p of having the chance to do something you really want, and I've not regretted going for it in the slightest.

This sounds exactly as i would expect for me....im going to apply and see what happens... everything happens for a reason

i will either be rejected and carry on doing what im doing..or get a job ive always wanted

 

[TURBO]

i am very lucky in the fact that i love my job, my gf says i basically get paid to play with my hobby :roll:

but i have had jobs in the past that i hated with a passion, i could go a whole 60hour week without speaking to a single person as they all hated me!but the money was soo good i couldnt care less!it got to the point where i just had my ipod on all day, it was a horrid situation and i have never been treated so bad but all the time i was being paid what i was i couldnt have cared less.

on the other hand i have stuck with some jobs which may have paid less purely because of the amazing team/company.
i dont mind getting paid less if i feel i am appreciated/part of an amazing team or if the work is a challenge!

guess alot comes down to you as a person.
if u feel u can just switch off and do a job that u might not like or even hate without it wearing u down and get paid lots then id say its a no brainer
but if u feel that it would wear u down then u would b best off doing something which u liked/loved and being paid a bit less for it

 

[Daveyb133]

rob, im in my job at the moment for the money, it literally pays for me to have fun and have money left over to buy a nice car.

i hat what i do with a passion and i get more unhappy the more i go to work, u only live once so why not make the most of life and do something that makes u truly happy, if its what u want to do then go for it!! good luck with it as well.

thats my opinion on the matter anyway

 

[Courtney]

I hate my job, but at the end of the day you need to go where you feel secure! For me it doesn't matter so much coz I'm leaving to go to uni in September, but job security is what motivates a lot of people to work harder and stuff like that!

Go wherever you want to go... The money you get paid to do it is a bonus when your doing something you want to do.. What's the point in doing a job you hate, because you are still going to have to do that job!

 

[pritchp]

Im applying for it and will see what happens from there!

 

[HigtonA]

Good Luck

 

[DrDrew]

Hope it all goes well

 

[pritchp]

cheers guy!