In Order To Earn More Money What Option Would You Pick

Legacy_user

You have no qualifications, you are in a dead end job, pay is !!!!!!. You have 2 options, which one would you do?

Option 1, you stay in the dead end job but you have unlimited overtime so you clock up approx 60 hours a week and earn say £400 per week or more if you want.

Option 2, You retrain, going to college for 4 years getting a degree, you get a job earning £500 pw doing 35 hours per week.

I am going with option 2, Why should you spend all your life working in order to try and earn a few pounds. I have guys at work who around Christams have clocked up 80 hours a week:eek: I mean why should you have to do that?

StressedSteph

Option 2 is the best, if you can survive the 4 years with little or no income while you train.

Good on you if you can find a way to do it. Lifes too short to be at work.
xxx

System

StressedSteph wrote: »

Option 2 is the best, if you can survive the 4 years with little or no income while you train.

Good on you if you can find a way to do it. Lifes too short to be at work.
xxx

Thats my thinking, I am starting an Open Uni course next month, becuase I am on low pay also got it paid for me.

OliveOyl_2

Some people don't want or cannot cope with the study.

I know many people who do mind-numbing work for little pay, they get their joy from their outside work activities, their hobbies & sports. Work never keeps them awake at night, they don't need the money - they are happy.

Horses for courses really, I wouldn't be happy in a dull job. But there is satisfaction in doing whatever you do well. There is satisfaction in a clean toilet, a road swept, filing kept tidy and efficient or a school meal served. Just because it isn't what you want to do doesn't make it second class. I have done cleaning jobs, served in a motorway service station at night and Saturday girl in a newsagent to get myself through uni as a single mum.

I'm glad for you if you are going to get to do what you want. Good luck with the study.

hypno06

I work more than 40 hours a week and my husband currently is working 80 hours a week.

We do so in order that we can clear our debts and live the lifestyle we want to lead.

Neither of us is in a "dead end job" as you put it.......we work more hours because it makes the books balance.

It won't always be this way, but it is part of our journey to becoming debt free so it will be worth it in the long run.

You say life is too short to be at work, I say life is too short to be staying awake at night worrying about my debts so I choose to work the extra to pay for them.

It is personal choice at the end of the day.

rog2

I agree with Hypno in that it depends on how you define a 'dead end job'.

I am, currently, in a 'dead end job' in that there is little or no chance of career progression and the hourly rate is pretty poor at £6.03.
At the moment I also have little chance of overtime - in fact I have had no work for the last six weeks.
But I have done what you are talking about doing, only in reverse, nirelandguy, - I had my own business for 25 years until my bankruptcy, at which time I had a short sharp shock lesson in reality, which basically taught me that, at 50+ years old, you don't automatically walk into a job for which your qualifications are either suitable or required, yet you still have to put 'bread on the table'.
I might, also, add that it took me several months to get even the 'dead end job' that I have, as many 'minimum wage' employers were rejecting me because I was 'over-qualified'.
But, nirelandguy, please don't let that put you off - I am 100% in favour of education in order to better a person's circumstances, and would do exactly the same in your position.
Good luck.

System

Well I have floated around min wage jobs all my working life (About 10 years) and I'm sick of it.

rog2

nirelandguy wrote: »

Well I have floated around min wage jobs all my working life (About 10 years) and I'm sick of it.

Then what are you waiting for - you should be able to get some financial help if you have been working for 10 years.

Go for it.

Bismarck

interesting thread....60 hours a week is not sustainable long-term or healthy.....

above all you need to look at the whole deal and what you need to do for you and your circumstances - now and in the future....I've flogged myself over things that in the real scheme of things didn't matter and regret the time wasted.

Take your time now, if you can, plan what you're going to do and give it everything you've got. Good luck!

savingholmes

I think you are doing the right thing getting better qualifications. It may be hard in the short term but long term I think you will win out. Be careful what you pick to study tho - those David Beckham degree courses don't wash well with employers!

System

rog2 wrote: »

Then what are you waiting for - you should be able to get some financial help if you have been working for 10 years.

Go for it.

Yes I get it paid for plus a study grant