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How to get an easy job
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Hi All thanks for the replies,
On depression - I really dont think I am depressed - when the job gets easier I get happier - it doesnt mean there is anything going on in my head.
I laughed when I saw the person who recommended University administration - as that is the sector I work in - though I am in a more challenging role than those suggested.
I also like the HGV driver suggestion - something like that on a temp basis where I could just pick up a few hours would be good.
I feel for those with kids / family responsibilities whose hands are tied - my parents suggest settling down with someone to give it all a purpose. I can't justify being tied down given how poor most of the jobs I have had have been.
I think the most likely option is I will ask to be demoted and for a major change of duties in the next restructure - which is due in a couple of months. If this is refused I will discretely ask for my employer to not continue with my employment - I get 6 months off, paid, with preferential access to apply for any vacancies which arise. After that my job ends.
I am lucky in that I have income insurance - so if it all comes off right I will then get 24 months of 0.3 FTE (as I am only 0.6 FTE now). Hopefully if I put more effort into my stock trading I can then dispense with the need to have a job once and for all!
I will also try to develop an IT consultancy business on the side - little is lost in the attempt and if my job does end then it might prove the first part of a portfolio income.
In response to egoode - more difficult work isnt resulting in longer hours *yet* it is however resulting in higher demands and more stress. I am not in a working excess hours sort of environment luckily - one benefit to being in a university (although that does happen in some departments).
When I moved away from London I wanted a more 9-5 job with a view to going part time to allow me to make more money from the markets and just have a better life. I couldnt see the logic of living like a rat in London given my education and ability. What was the point of cramming myself into a tube train each morning - just for money ? That I wasnt spending ?
I have achieved most of what I wanted - better lifestyle, stockmarket profits, part time, what I havent achieved is my aim of a routine 9-5 job. I have a job, its (sort of) 9-5 but is far from routine.0 -
what do you trade? Equities? FX? Futures?
Intraday/swing?
Technical? Fundamental? Something else?
Workwise, you just sound like a more successful version of myself! (Never had a 'good' job, and don't have many qualification to speak of)
I just want an easy life when it comes to work. My boss at my last job looked at me in disbelief when I declined a promotion that would have just about doubled my pay. I just didn't want the stress that sounded like it came with the job, and it was hinted that I'd be required to do more hours 'as the company required'.
They ended up getting rid of me from that job, so i'm unemployed now.
Just looking for an easy job that I could do that pays a little more than minimum wage, but struggling to find anything.
I guess I need to take a course in *something* (don't know what?>) to increase my chances.0 -
I can sympathise with the general sense of "ennui" about career and life.
I do have depression, but generally it's not what affects my life choices (although it certainly narrows the scope of what I can do) but I'm generally positive about the impact it's had on my life.
Whilst not Oxbridge material I did well for myself and did well at school/university and then worked hard and got a good job - I bought a house (because I was supposed to) and got a promotion and now I'm stuck 5 years later thinking - is this all there is, just thirty more years of this.
I can't offer much advice but offer empathy, and can only suggest the adage about loving what you do so you'll never work a day in your life - I'm still working on that, but I'm about 30% thereMortgage Free since January 2018!0 -
Hi Jezebel - to me that sounds not like depression but that a life which needs changing, of course many others would disagree.
MorganEdge - I trade equities individual stocks - almost entirely long mostly fundamentals with technicals for timing. I hold for years and spend most of my time looking at things then rejecting them.0 -
bu yao dan xin = don't worry. I like it.0
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I know exactly what you mean about jobs growing and getting more responsibility, OP, annoying isn't it! I suspect the answer to this is simply to be a bit irresponsible, unreliable and unhelpful. Not enough to get fired, just enough so no-one wants to give you extra work.
I wish I had the guts to do this, as I hate going from contented drone to hassled multi-tasker, all for little to no extra money. Unfortunately I'm honest, helpful and hard-working so can't quite bring myself to pull it off. Maybe you will have more luck?0 -
Smallpotatoes wrote: »be a bit irresponsible, unreliable and unhelpful. Not enough to get fired, just enough so no-one wants to give you extra work.
This ^^^^
Genius!
Bundly0 -
This ^^^^
Genius!
Bundly
Difficult to do this - it is 100% not in my nature not to be like this - I am very responsible - but the end result of my nature is that I have been I have been shat on repeatedly!
I have been offered promotion in a few jobs but I am never interested - even more work for £100/month after tax - no thank you.0 -
I'll be following this thread with interest!
I've sort of engineered my working life so that I only need to work three days per week. My current role is not something that I would ever consider doing on a full-time basis as I find it very stressful and draining, so three days is more than enough. Hoping to reduce this down to two days per week in the not so distant future.'The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes'
Sleepy J.0 -
I am pondering things like this, an easier job, less stress. I have no desire to experience the horrible stress that comes with my job. I am afraid I simply don't cope with it. I don't want to. And sooner or later I might stuff things up which I really don't want to do.
From later this year I will switch to temp work, and focus on saving money, earning extras when I can. All I want is to do a job well that is enough to cover my bills and maybe a holiday once a year!
I think what I want is for work to be a consideration in life but not my whole life. So it is part time, temporary for me. dip in and out of the rat race and then sit in the garden for a whileNevertheless she persisted.0
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