Employment FDilemma

secretposter

Annisele wrote: »

I'm going to say something really nitpicky - but if money really is tight, it might help.

You say you have £200 a month to live on after your fixed costs. That isn't £50 a week - it's more like £46 a week (because there are more than 28 days in an average month).

If you spend £50 a week when you only have £200 a month, then at the end of the year just doing that will take you £200 overdrawn.

Thanks Einstein. You will be disappointed to hear that I get paid 13 times a year. If you times this number by 4 it adds up to 52. This is how many weeks there are in a year.

ValHaller

Laurajo wrote: »

With a history of gambling issues, I'd be worried about such immersion into that side of things.

Sound advice.

Somehow, I think that if the Gambling related job is a road out of debt, it will be a road to ruin.

saintjammyswine

secretposter wrote: »

Thanks Einstein. You will be disappointed to hear that I get paid 13 times a year. If you times this number by 4 it adds up to 52. This is how many weeks there are in a year.

Seriously, you asked for comments and said you appreciate all comments.

That means all, not just the ones you agree with, you should not respond like this when someone has bothered to try and help. you may not get the help next time.

ValHaller

secretposter wrote: »

I get paid 13 times a year. If you times this number by 4 it adds up to 52.

I think that is called pedant baiting.

redpete

secretposter wrote: »

I have a bad history of gambling and have been bailed out numerous times over the years financially. Would working for a betting company be too much temptation, or would it in fact show me the seedy side of gambling that I need.

Getting into £'000s of debt, having to be bailed out by other people and driven to payday loans hasn't been enough to rid you of the urge to gamble. I doubt that working in an industry that 'normalises' gambling as a social activity is going to do anything but make it more likely for you to gamble with money that you can't afford to lose.

pawsies

Also, you say you would get 24k from this gambling job but how much of that will you lose through gambling? That will probably mean you take home 16k anyway if you lost 8k at work gambling.

DCFC79

OP you should really sort out the gambling issue before you get a job in the industry.

John1993_2

secretposter wrote: »

I am a 24 year old who graduated from Uni 2 years ago, currently employed in a trainee accountant role and earn a very low salary of around £16300 a year. I have been working in this job only around 6 weeks and I cannot stand it. I dislike everything about it: firstly the pay is a real sickner for me as many of my friends are earning in the late £20 k to £30 k region who are of a similar intelligence/ Qualification.

A really important point to note is that you are not paid for intelligence or qualifications, you are paid based on (among other things) how much value to you provide to your employer, and how cheaply someone else can be found to do as good a job as you.

In general, the best way to end up on high pay is to make sure that you are in a job where you can provide real value, and then to crack on and provide it. One bar to doing this is a sense that it's "not fair" that you are so intelligent and well qualified, yet don't get to walk straight into the "top" jobs.

These better jobs are there for you, one day, but it's very likely going to take years of dedication, and doing what your boss wants.

Beachview_2

Be thankful you have a job, there are many who don't. There are many who are living on lower salaries than you and who still get by. You need to cut back and live within your means as others have said.