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I have recently created a few opportunities for myself and it feels like holding a good hand in a game of poker!
I've changed jobs loads over the years so it doesn't particularly bother me but I'm a bit unsure whether to jump from the pub into a well paid telephone based call centre customer service job. National company and definable pay scale which would improve my earnings drastically. Better hours, more time at home with family, no weekends........but potential boredom, OR I can stay in the trade but move to a job that will double my pay but leave me with one day off and one evening off per week (not on weekends).
O can also stay where I am on fuck all money and feel as though I am letting my kids down more and more.
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JoelStinty 9,530 posts
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Registered 8 years agoGo for the call centre .gif)
Just work with the attitude you're working for your spare time and time with family. It may bore you , but family and friends are everything. -
God, I wholeheartedly disagree with that. Jesus, you've had kids, that's no need to wait for death in the most financially beneficial way.
You'll be miserable in the call centre and won't be able to hide that when you come home. -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPES_Fanboy wrote:
Haha! Superb. ��
I was just the pony fucker fucker.
It's just a Russian doll of beastiality. -
JoelStinty 9,530 posts
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Registered 8 years agoReading the earlier posts in the thread, sad it didn't work out for goban. That would be the sort of thing i would love to do. Show double bills, old classics as well as current movies, have an education programme, show local films etc. Be right up my street.
But i'm kind of romantic in that way, the things i like seem now to be defunct as buisness opportunities. Record store, public darkroom, etc. -
Yeah I'm gutted for goban too - big fan of cinema and what he was bravely trying to do.
Always think of him when I heard of Oban in the news / weather, wondering how his cinema was. Didn't realise it had gone to shit
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Jeepers 16,616 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPES_Fanboy wrote:
Agreed. Bad luck may have scuppered things but all credit for giving it his best.
Yeah I'm gutted for goban too - big fan of cinema and what he was bravely trying to do.
Always think of him when I heard of Oban in the news / weather, wondering how his cinema was. Didn't realise it had gone to shit -
twelveways 7,131 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI love my job as an English teacher to kids in China, I'm currently thinking about branching out on my own though and setting up a small school, possibly in the Philippines as my missus is Filipina.
Lots of preparation though as we are working out our syllabus and materials etc. Going over there to visit and scout out some similar businesses next month.
I would rather try and fail than never try at all, at least I have a skill to fall back on if it does all go tits up...
edit: I guess it's not really a career change though...
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I'm a senior qa with a software house. Decent salary. Love the job and the people, been there 3 years. Money isnt working though as there are 5 of us and only one salary. We just seem to be getting further and further in debt.
Im at the last stage of the interview process with another firm, a financial one. If I get it, will probably be a pay bump but most importantly, they pay a 15% bonus every year at xmas. I have never had a job with a bonus and that would be such a big help to us.
I suspect the job will not be as varied but am left with the realisation that its not about me primarily, I have to provide for my family so if I get an offer I am likely to take it. Am just really nervous about the whole thing. -
Is that bonus confirmed? I joined a similar company and had a nightmare of a first year and got a smaller bonus. Happily things have improved quite a bit since then but it might be worth treating it as a bonus, great if you get it rather than guaranteed income. -
@malloc Not guaranteed at 15, could be 10 but I know 3 folk who work there and for the past 5 years they got the full 15. I currently earn 35k, so if I could get a few grand pay rise and that bonus on top, should probably take it. That bonus could cover kids xmas presents, car insurance, oil and help pay the debts I seem to build up on an annual basis.
At least until the kids are old enough so my wife can go back to work and we would have 2 salaries coming in.
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Gruff 3,940 posts
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Registered 18 years ago@Nitrous Goverment job at a museum of all places. Great pay but not stimulating at all. Now I work for a French IT company, who, being French have a 7 hour working day, and every weekend off.
I can walk to work, have tons of free time, I enjoy my job, tons of job satisfaction, and I am now moving to a tier 2 position next month and I am no longer in London, its all gravy. -
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Registered 16 years agoGruff wrote:
Museum for me also but for the imperial war museum.
@Nitrous Goverment job at a museum of all places. Great pay but not stimulating at all. Now I work for a French IT company, who, being French have a 7 hour working day, and every weekend off.
The IT job sounds alright though in terms of work life balance -
sid92 3,595 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI am 21 years old and looking for a career change been working in precision engineering (surface grinding) for four years but I just hate my job, I always thought and was always told to get a trade under my belt get on with it and I will be fine so I just did, got straight C's at school and basically went straight from school into this job but I hate it and want a change. I just have two problems, I have no idea what I want to do and all I have is straight C's no college degrees or anything. -
@sid92
Mate, you're 21. Relax. You can retrain easily.
Wish I was 21 -
SamNunn92 943 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI'm in the same boat as you Sid, 21 and no degree (though for different reasons). I've actually decided to do a home learning course in Electronic Engineering - only a BTEC but I figure it can't hurt and might help to get me on the ladder in jobs I might actually be interested in. Have you thought of doing anything like that? -
Was faced with a sort of rudundency about 2 months ago and not sure i want to go back into running pubs. Got a few opportunities in that respect but theyre a little ways off.
Thinking about going to college to do a foundation degree in media studies.
Think I fancy becoming a cameraman.
Studied media at btec level a decade ago but never finished it. Really enjoyed it at the time tho.
Anyone here do this sort of work? I live in south Wales so I know the type of work would be fairly limited but I'm not too keen on becoming a studio camera operator anyway.
I'm thinking about live events like music concerts and televised sports etc. Don't mind moving somewhere but really don't fancy London at all. I have a child after all! :-o -
@Madder-Max
I've done the call centre thing before and if you're anything like me (we're both beer monkies after all) you'll hate it.
Worked for T-Mobile (now EE) and I honestly couldn't go back to that sort of thing now.
I hope you figure it out mate and good luck with whatever you decide. -
sid92 3,595 posts
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Registered 11 years ago@SamNunn92 I was looking at the possibility of trying to become an ECA (emergency care assistant) with a view to becoming a paramedic I hear you can progress that way through courses. I have already passed a first aid course recently which could help me, but you need to have held a driving licence for at least a year and I passed my test only 4 days ago. -
sid92 3,595 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI think what is making it worse at the moment is that four of my friends have just finished university and are starting great careers, kind of making me regret my decisions a bit. -
Goban 10,121 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@PES_Fanboy
Just popped into this thread to seek inspiration
All went to shit and then some, brief summary:
All went great for a while until recession hit.
Cinema began to struggle.
Went back to old job to support cinema.
Bastard banks pulled plug.
Old job made me redundant.
In shit still.
Don't regret any of it, was one of the best
experiences of my life and I'd encourage
anyone to take the leap.
Been looking after kids for the past couple of
years and am now looking around for new
challenges. Really don't want to go back to
my old career but need to get out and earn
again. -
@Goban that's brilliant fella. Might be odd choice of words but I've had my own share of things that didn't work out and you do learn loads and realise actually what's possible.
I love the fact that, short of a set of catastrophic events that you couldn't control - including a once in a lifetime deep recession - it sounds like it would've worked.
All the best mate - I'm sure you'll do something amazingly successful, as you've got that bravery that sparks true entrepreneurship. -
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoExactly, no regrets, no what ifs. -
I've always wanted to have my own gaming website. It would be a dream if I could keep myself afloat whilst maintaining the site. I'd go for the Giant Bomb approach (not too serious, mainly video focused, interesting interviews with devs, etc). And I don't mean a shitty Youtube let's play channel. I'm talking proper journalism.
Unfortunately, this of course would be financial suicide. I could do it my spare time, but I really don't have the time or energy.
Edited by Physically_Insane at 07:29:36 21-04-2014
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Just work with the attitude you're working for your spare time and time with family. It may bore you , but family and friends are everything. 
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