Disliking new job

sam444

Hi all,
About 2-3 months ago i started a new job managing payments for a car company head office. I've never had an office job before (been working in retail) and I'm already feeling very bored and fed up. The company is very flat with no real chance of progression/promotion, and i am already irritated with doing the same repetitive tasks everyday. This is my first full time job as only just finished in education and decided uni wasnt for me. Should I carry on sticking with it just for my cv or start looking elsewhere soon? Any advice welcome

sniggings

sam444 wrote: »

Hi all,
About 2-3 months ago i started a new job managing payments for a car company head office. I've never had an office job before (been working in retail) and I'm already feeling very bored and fed up. The company is very flat with no real chance of progression/promotion, and i am already irritated with doing the same repetitive tasks everyday. This is my first full time job as only just finished in education and decided uni wasnt for me. Should I carry on sticking with it just for my cv or start looking elsewhere soon? Any advice welcome

stick with it until you find a new job.

You should rethink uni as I doubt you will find a job you will enjoy if you have no qualifications, most of the interesting jobs need them, the min wage is for those jobs a trained monkey can do, so either get used to it or train for a career.

Tiglath

I'd give it 6-12 months, personally - you need a solid chunk of something on your CV to prove that you're employable. It's not unreasonable to move to a second job after that amount of time, but I think with anything less you run the risk of looking a bit flaky, to be honest. 2 years ago I moved from a dull job after only 4 months as the company was slowly going down the toilet and I wouldn't have really got anything from a redundancy, but I had 20 solid years of work experience before that, with chunks of 5-6 years with the same companies. When I first started out on my career from uni, I did 2 - 2.5 years at the first couple of companies.

DCFC79

No harm in looking whats around and applying, when asked "why do you want to leave your current job" just say its not for you. Ive been there myself with a job I didnt like, felt like quiting after 2 months and after 8 months I wanted to just get up and go and come back as it was so boring but stuck it out and luckily was let go about 12 months later which was a godsend.

xxJudexx

Stay in your job and apply for other roles. Don't just quit though.
I would diagree with sniggings, don't go to uni if you are not sure. As you have just finished education you could get a job in a company you like and work your way up without a degree.
You could also think about an apprenticeship. I know they don't pay well but you would have a useable skill afterwards and I'm sure it would be more enjoyable than an office job.

Simon1878

I feel your pain. After leaving school at 16 I went into office jobs thinking that would be for me. Since then I've had countless jobs after getting itchy feet very fast, my cv is a bit of a joke now 10 years later.

My latest job is 5 months, it's depressing me to !!!!, I input things on a system all day and answer about 5-7 queries on the phone. I can do no work or a load of work and it doesn't get recognised.

I'd have jumped ship by now and found something else if it weren't for the fact that for a change I'm getting a lift to work meaning it's 20 minutes travel instead of 1.5hrs and it's also an excellent wage for what it is.

I'm clearly not cut out for the general office life but I've got nothing else that I can do.

I'm trying to set up a sideline business that may or may not work but finding the motivation is also quite difficult when I get home from work.

Don't be like me, try stick it for a few years just so it gives you a solid CV.

Simon1878

Oh and I'd see if you can do what I never and try and decide what it is you want to do before you get any older.

sam444

Simon1878 wrote: »

I feel your pain. After leaving school at 16 I went into office jobs thinking that would be for me. Since then I've had countless jobs after getting itchy feet very fast, my cv is a bit of a joke now 10 years later.

My latest job is 5 months, it's depressing me to !!!!, I input things on a system all day and answer about 5-7 queries on the phone. I can do no work or a load of work and it doesn't get recognised.

I'd have jumped ship by now and found something else if it weren't for the fact that for a change I'm getting a lift to work meaning it's 20 minutes travel instead of 1.5hrs and it's also an excellent wage for what it is.

I'm clearly not cut out for the general office life but I've got nothing else that I can do.

I'm trying to set up a sideline business that may or may not work but finding the motivation is also quite difficult when I get home from work.

Don't be like me, try stick it for a few years just so it gives you a solid CV.

Thanks alot for that. Im kind of the same, hoping to start up a business but a bit of scared to do it by myself

blossomhill_2

Don't forget the words of the song
"I could have been someone" "well so could anyone" - feel the fear and do it anyway (as long as someone will pay your bills while you are getting set up/sucessful!)

Good luck, and why not use the time in your current job as a fact-fidning mission to see how the business systems are run

Racheldevon

Put some time into really thinking about what you want to do.. what were you going to do had you gone to uni? Certainly don't just quit your job without having something else to go to.

What interests you? Do you want to be working with people? Any preference on what type - adults, children, families, older people, people with additional needs? Any preference on the type of environment - you appear bored with the office work, but I suspect that's the nature of the work not the fact that's it's office based. Are you prepared to look at some volunteering work/a project you could provide a few hours a week towards to get an insight into other things out there - something just might spark your interest.

Don't stick with something that doesn't make you happy, at this stage I wouldn't worry too much about the CV, if you can reflect on your experience you've had to date, and what's that's taught you about yourself/how you are in teams/your skills etc then this will come across at interview.

Make sure you keep registered with various sites so that you don't miss opportunities - check out local authority job vacancy sites, the local paper, things like local/national charity websites for projects that might be local to you etc

theoretica

If you are offered a job that suits you better then clearly your short time in your current job will not have counted against you. If you stay longer at a later job it will show staying power on your CV - one short job won't give you a reputation for life!