Not enough work to do

TrickyWicky

Resign and let me have the job - sounds ideal

Jox

No way

I was unemployed for 4 months back in 2008 so know how hard it is to get a job!

Hezzawithkids

I feel your pain OP! I had a temp job a couple of years ago where I was in exactly the same situation. The manager who recruited me left 6 weeks after I joined and they didn't replace her immediately so I was left to my own devices much of the time. Like you I was on good money so reluctant to highlight my enforced idleness, but I agree that getting up & going to work every day knowing that I had little or nothing to do was soul-destroying. I was twiddling my thumbs for much of the day so I filled my time up revising for the OU course I was studying, surfing MSE and quietly looking for my next job opportunity. Luckily I was using my own laptop so no-one could trace my internet history.

Doing courses sounds like the way forward for you, there's plenty of distance learning and/or online resources that will enable you to learn a new skill from your desk that you could justify will benefit the company in some way. Looks like there's plenty of ideas already posted on this thread.

Good luck!

Jox

Thanks Hezza, I have lots of experience and initiative and want to be able to prove it and put my few brain cells to good use before they shrivel up from non-use.

I'm spending more time on these forums than I would like!

TrickyWicky

Jox wrote: »

No way

I was unemployed for 4 months back in 2008 so know how hard it is to get a job!

No you don't! I've been out of work for 2 years (ok had a couple of temp jobs in there but I don't really count those).

dizzyrascal

Oh I've just thought of something else. Most companies like to send out marketing emails. You could teach yourself email marketing. Mailchimp is quite good and easy to use once you get the hang of it, it has lots of help on the website. You can easily argue that this is a vital business skill that you are developing and it could save them money if they already pay a company to do it for them.

Jox

That's awful tricky...I left one job in 2008 confident that I would find another easily, then I found it almost impossible.

I signed up to every job website going, went to every agency in London practically and had a few interviews and rejections.

Then someone contacted me because they had seen my cv on a job site and I was very fortunate to get this job.

In the 4 months I was out of work I used 3 credit cards to get by and it took me around 2 years to pay it all back plus hefty interest.

I don't want to seem ungrateful, I have a job and am very grateful for that...am just under-utilised... oh well, we can't have everything!

Jox

Thanks dizzy, you are full of good ideas

BillTrac

I feel your pain Jox,

when I finished my apprenticeship I joined the local dockyard as they would allow me to take the next level up of qualifications.

When I started the job all was fine for about a month. Then I found myself continually asking my manager for something to do. Everyone around knows what the dockies are like, but then I was young and unaware how lazy they were.

I was told to go and hide somewhere with a book, told to go for a walk around the yard to familiarise myself with the boats (tricky, bearing in mind all my work was landside:rotfl:, or to bring in little things from home to do.

All well and good but there's only so many sound to light units, only so many electronic games you can build before getting bored. (Shows how long ago, the internet wasn't around!!!)

The old dockies were used to clocking in at 0730 and out again at 1630. As long as they got their wages they didn't care if they rotted away during the day.

I managed to hold on for three months.

Whoops, did not intend to waffle so much.

Jox, if you're really struggling then unfortunately you have to follow the work.

But bear in mind the next job won't be secure for two years etc etc

MoneySavingUser

Why do you stay until 6.30? are those your contracted hours? if you don't have much to do why not go home early?

You could do 9.30-5.30 with half an hour lunch and still be doing 7.5 hours a day.