Resign from good job?

bitgiggy

Hello there

I am looking for your opinions please!

I am 22, didn't go to Uni and went straight to work. I have been in my company 3 years now and have recently been promoted to a junior manager earning £27k per year. Amongst other benefits, I work flexi time, 28 holidays per year and have a good pension. I am by no means moaning, I know I am lucky to have such a good job in the current climate.

The trouble is, I don't enjoy it and find myself sitting at work clock watching. I don't look forward to going into work in the morning and feel like the career I'm heading into is not the one for me.

I have always wanted to train as a croupier, although the salary is far less, I think it will be something I enjoy and the idea of international travel appeals to me. I have done lots of investigation around this and am enrolled on a course to begin in a few weeks time, at the end of which I will be able to get a job as a trainee in a casino.

The question is, am I being foolish giving up a good salary and benefits, or is happiness the most important thing :S

SarEl

Salary and benefits or (presumed) happiness? Well there will no doubt be loads of opinions on that. My advice, for what it is worth, is... You are 22. Presumably single and unattached (unless the attraction of international travel is to run away!). Well you are entitled to do totally daft things and chase dreams and make mistakes. So it might be daft (from some perspectives) and it might be a mistake (from yours if the dream turns sour), but you may as well be daft and mistaken while you are young than spend the rest of your life regretting not having taken some chances. When you are 52 the world will be a whole different place, you will be a different person, and running off after your dreams may not be impossible, but it'll be a whole lot less likely!

Debicj

Follow your gut feeling. Things have a habit of working out for the best.

If you don't do things when you are young and carefree you probably won't get the chance later on in life.

I had the chance to work abroad when I was 19 and I didn't go. I am almost 40 now and I have always wondered since, what difference it would have made to my life.

Grab every opportunity when you can! Good luck.

Annisele

Doesn't really matter if anybody else thinks you're being foolish (unless you're married to the anybody else).

I would absolutely loathe working in a casino, so I'm not the person to give you advice! But if you don't like the job you're doing now - and you've given it three years so it's unlikely you'll suddenly decide you love it - then I think it's definitely worth doing something different.

If you're single with no dependants and no mortgage, it's relatively easy to up sticks. If you're in that position, and you really want to go do "X", then I reckon that so long as "X" isn't illegal/harmful to others you should just do it.

DCFC79

As been mentioned your currently unhappy and would like to pursue something else, id go and do it myself, if it dont work out then at least you know and you wont be wondering what if if you didnt go and do it

Prudent

Would it be possible to take an unpaid sabbatical? This would allow you to try the new lifestyle and see if it is all you hope.

bitgiggy

Thanks for all your replies.

As many of you have mentioned, I am single and have limited/no responsibilities. The thought of me being where I am in 2 years time depresses me so I want to do what most people can't and do something about it.

My workplace is very flexible and do offer unpaid leave/career break, however they don't allow you to work somewhere else during this period so resigning would be the only way.

I'm quite lucky that the course I am going to do is during the evening so can fit it around my current job, only once I have another firm offer on the table will I hand in my notice if the conditions are right.

Glad to hear you all are encouraging me to go for it, I want to do it, just don't want to make the wrong decision and regret it later!

DCFC79

bitgiggy wrote: »

Glad to hear you all are encouraging me to go for it, I want to do it, just don't want to make the wrong decision and regret it later!

its entirely your choice but if you dont take the chance then you wont know, it could go wrong but you wont know until you give it a shot