I hate my Job!!!

Pinkpenguin

Thank you for all of your posts so far. I was waiting for the "Your lucky to have a job", "I have no sympathy for you" posts and I understand what you are saying but the industry I am in is ridiculously competitive and soul destroying so feeling 'lucky' to have a job isn't really enough!

Magenta - I'm sorry if you felt my post was irritating but this board isn't just for those that are unemployed, redundant etc. Even those of us with jobs are entitled to feel unhappy, I am merely asking for some sort of productive advice....

Wantitall - Due to my financial circumstances I am stuck doing this until I find something that pays the same. I am paying £363 a month for the loan that was supposed to guarantee a glistening Legal career so I hope you can understand my frustration! The position I am in is that I will have to take a £4k wage drop to work as a paralegal somewhere and really cannot afford to do that as I am only just making ends meet at the moment. I have considered moving to Bristol/London in hope that I could earn more there but it seems that us Law Graduates are paid pittance everywhere because the firms know they can get away with it.

I wont bore you with the details but my present job role was initially maternity cover (which was extended at the end of last year). When I started I arrived into a department which was in a complete mess and as a result I wasn't trained up properly. The guy who I am supposed to be 'assisting' is away from the office 3 days a week so I have basically been dumped in it, so to speak. This probably hasn't helped me in terms of positive thinking.....

Thank you for your comments though.

Lincroft - My Manager does not have a clue what is going on as he is AWOL for most of the week so the lack of support was not anything to do with my performance. The first job he asked if I was interested in and then when I said I was he didnt respond to my email but instead actively supported a colleague of mine (I have been in the department for less than a year, her for 8 years - I think this was more of a loyalty thing. It still bruised my confidence). The second job, I approached my former manager (who I worked my !!!!! off for!) and he said that I didnt meet the job specification, without even looking through my application.

I have showed willing in the form of taking on my boss's workload for nearly a year and then when I ask for his support I receive nothing and no gratitude for what I have done. Forgive me for my 'attitude and demeanour'!

LadyMissA - I am thankful - I wish it was so easy just to go out and find another but I have financial responsibilities that have to be considered

Notmyrealname - The majority of my class-mates at Uni have done the same. It just seems such a waste as i've invested so much time and money!

Houseunderwater - It is Conveyancing Law. Anybody that has ever brought or sold a house will know what I mean when I say boring...

Jubilee - Thank you for your kind words. It is really comforting to see someone has been in a similar position. I am getting to the stage where you were at - the job I applied for today was something completely out of this field but perhaps more fulfilling than what I am currently doing. I hope you found happiness in your decision to leave.

CMW1212 - That is exactly how I think and no it doesn't make me feel any better! I've done my fair share of rubbish jobs in my lifetime - I paid my way through University working in pubs, shops, call centres - I was just hoping that all my hard work would have paid off by now!

You weren't rambling at all - My name is on several agency books but there isn't a great deal around at the moment and the pay doesn't match to what i'm on at the moment. I'm not on Linkedin yet but you have just reminded me that I must do that. Thank you.

I truly value every single one of your comments whether they are what I want to hear or not.

PP xx

Pinkpenguin

Dandelionclock30 - I think my colleagues are already sussing this out and it is only a matter of time before my AWOL boss figures something is up too. I know that alot of jobs are mundane but i'm far too ambitious for my own good (I may not sound it but I promise you I am!) to be sat behind a desk wishing my life away. Thanks for your comments

Hawk30 - I'm pretty sure its the area of law - once youve seen one house sale youve seen them all...! I've always wanted to be a Criminal Lawyer, I gave up loads of my free time volunteering in that area, but jobs are scarce because its all legally aided (which is in short supply at the moment). I'm also not naturally that intelligent, i've had to work blimmin hard for where I am today (despite what some of you may think) - perhaps i'm just fed up of getting nowehere.

Your positive experience has helped me though as I see that making the leap of faith might be the best thing I can do.

PP xx

pinetree

Maybe thats why house conveyancing takes so long as all the solicitors are bored :eek: Sorry could not resist that, seriously though perhaps if you put a bit more into your job you would get more out whilst looking for something else.

GotToChange

There is a saying - "a man's reach must exceed his grasp" - so I get that you are ambitious and at the moment feel thwarted in those ambitions. Equally though, everyone has their own high water mark and, by your own admission, you aren't stratospherically intelligent.... is there a sideways path you could look into, yet another area of law, which may not have the LA issues and that you could volunteer in first as an exploratory exercise...? Or even a career path that your law background could open up for you but is not within "Law" itself...? Maybe a way into a corporation's legal department (this maybe a US thing as I worked for US company who had a huge legal dept but these people ended up as VPs earning huge sums [in the UK]); don't some companies have legislative requirements to be met (I know the food industry does)?
Times are tough and you may not get a huge amount of sympathy but you do at this time need to count your blessings, pull yourself together and hatch an escape plan (before you get the boot, which you know may be on the cards at this rate).

Carl31

Anyone thats climbed the career ladder knows theres plenty of wading through the proverbial before you reach the top. If its not the company, but the work ,have you considered that law isnt for you?

mildred1978

Pinkpenguin wrote: »

Houseunderwater - It is Conveyancing Law. Anybody that has ever brought or sold a house will know what I mean when I say boring...

I hope that was a typo. A qualified conveyancer thinking houses are 'brought' :eek:

lincroft1710

Pinkpenguin wrote: »

Lincroft - My Manager does not have a clue what is going on as he is AWOL for most of the week so the lack of support was not anything to do with my performance. The first job he asked if I was interested in and then when I said I was he didnt respond to my email but instead actively supported a colleague of mine (I have been in the department for less than a year, her for 8 years - I think this was more of a loyalty thing. It still bruised my confidence). The second job, I approached my former manager (who I worked my !!!!! off for!) and he said that I didnt meet the job specification, without even looking through my application.

I have showed willing in the form of taking on my boss's workload for nearly a year and then when I ask for his support I receive nothing and no gratitude for what I have done. Forgive me for my 'attitude and demeanour'!

Had you mentioned this in your original post, I probably wouldn't have been quite so critical of your attitude, but....


Houseunderwater - It is Conveyancing Law. Anybody that has ever brought or sold a house will know what I mean when I say boring...

We are constantly reading on the House Selling, Buying, Renting board about buyers and sellers being messed around by their conveyancing solicitors. Either the solicitors miss something or are ridiculously slow and perhaps we now know the real reason, conveyancing is so boring that the conveyancer will do anything rather than getting on with the job.

I also agree with mildred1978

TBH if conveyancing isn't for you, I think you should get out of it. As far as many people are concerned the legal part of buying and selling property is very important and at the same time worrying. Are you giving those people the service they expect and deserve?

If your heart isn't in the job, one of these days something will go wrong. This has happened to me but fortunately the consequences weren't serious and have been able to extricate myself from a tricky situation.

supersuperdave

Well after posting on another thread here this evening I thought i may as well again.
I know you say you "hate" the job, I think many of us feel that way every day, we either have to do something about it, and find other employment, or try our hardest where we are so we can prosper in the future, going in late and doing no work will not help at all.
And i am trying not to be negative, as i know many people on here are happy to tear strips off people, and make them feel worse than they were before posting.
Good luck in whichever you decide to do, your only young, plenty of time to climb the ladder to your dream job
D

magenta22

Pinkpenguin wrote: »

Thank you for all of your posts so far. I was waiting for the "Your lucky to have a job", "I have no sympathy for you" posts and I understand what you are saying but the industry I am in is ridiculously competitive and soul destroying so feeling 'lucky' to have a job isn't really enough!

Magenta - I'm sorry if you felt my post was irritating but this board isn't just for those that are unemployed, redundant etc. Even those of us with jobs are entitled to feel unhappy, I am merely asking for some sort of productive advice....

Whilst I understand what you are saying here, it is sort of rubbing people's nose's in it who are not employed and dearly want to be. We've all been in jobs that we don't like at times but we get on with it or do something about it. I personally hear so many people complaining about their jobs and it is infuriating when you don't have one.

If you hate the job so much then leave it and join those who are searching for a job day in day out, then you will be wishing you were back in that 'mundane' job.

Pinkpenguin wrote: »

LadyMissA - I am thankful - I wish it was so easy just to go out and find another [b}but I have financial responsibilities that have to be considered [/b]

Don't we all, difference is you have an income to consider them with at the moment.

LadyMissA

Pinkpenguin wrote: »

LadyMissA - I am thankful - I wish it was so easy just to go out and find another but I have financial responsibilities that have to be considered

then of course you would not leave till you have another job but maybe that's what you need to start doing.

I am sorry but you wont hate your job half as much till the day you don't have one.