Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

seven-day-weekend

Hi everyone . Just touching base to wish you a 2017 filled with good things.

My tree and decs are down too (yesterday), apart from the outside lights which can stay up until the 6th. I don't like the tree and cards for very long, they start off looking pretty but very quickly start looking like clutter, so have to come down.

Hope you are feeling better soon WaS x

tea_lover

code - could you put 2016 - 2017 for the current job, or is that too vague?

I have to decide really soon whether to apply for the 35% pay cut job. Having been back at work for less than an hour am thinking I will!

onomatopoeia99

elsien, how about booking Friday or Monday off so you can have a long weekend of seeing no-one? I've done that in the past when suffering from "overdose of people" syndrome.

tea, have you considered a work to rule and only doing your contracted hours? Especially with regard to claiming back travel time to other sites as TOIL. Don't even have to tell anyone you're doing it unless they ask.

Several hundred emails in various inboxes to plough through this morning, the usual weekend haul plus Friday when I was off sick and the bank holiday yesterday. Joy! :rotfl:

Pyxis

tea_lover wrote: »

code - could you put 2016 - 2017 for the current job, or is that too vague?

I have to decide really soon whether to apply for the 35% pay cut job. Having been back at work for less than an hour am thinking I will!

Why not apply and see what happens?

If you get asked for an interview, go and see what happens.

Worry about it if and when they offer you the job! By then you might well know one way or the other, anyway!



(To be honest, I suppose it's a question of weighing up how miserable you are in this job, with more money, against how enjoyable the new job will be, with a lot less money. The trouble is, you might not know the latter for sure until you're in the job.

However, would you be able to manage on the lower pay?
If yes, would not having so much extra cash to spend on things make up for the misery of a job you hate?
Does the new job have other perks like a pension, health care, extra holidays, expenses, a car, paid overtime, etc. which might make up for the loss of income a bit?)

Izadora

Happy New Year everyone. I hope that 2017 is full of lovely things which make you happy.

(((( WaS )))) Don't worry about your penguin, I'm pretty sure it happens to everyone at some point, and I hope you're feeling better today.

We de-Christmased yesterday too and the flat now looks horribly bare, although it is lovely to have my big cuddler chair back in the living room.
New year's eve was good and I allowed myself a rare do-absolutely-nothing day on Sunday. I was so lazy that I didn't even make it downstairs at any point, IzHe and I spent the day snuggled under a blanket on the settee, watching rubbish telly and eating load of leftover Christmas goodies. We've still got rather a lot of chocolate, cheese and crisps left but I really need to start eating healthily. I've managed to put on about 2 stone in the last year and really want it gone by summer - I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking at our wedding photos and wishing I wasn't so fat!!

tea_lover

Pyxis wrote: »

Why not apply and see what happens?

If you get asked for an interview, go and see what happens.

Worry about it if and when they offer you the job! By then you might well know one way or the other, anyway!

(To be honest, I suppose it's a question of weighing up how miserable you are in this job, with more money, against how enjoyable the new job will be, with a lot less money. The trouble is, you might not know the latter for sure until you're in the job.

However, would you be able to manage on the lower pay?
If yes, would not having so much extra cash to spend on things make up for the misery of a job you hate?
Does the new job have other perks like a pension, health care, extra holidays, expenses, a car, paid overtime, etc. which might make up for the loss of income a bit?)

All really good points (as ever )

I've been doing some number crunching over the last few days and I could live on the lower amount and not starve. I'd probably have to cut back on my cath kidston addiction but that's probably not a bad thing anyway!

I've definitely come to realise that I'm not cut out for the responsibility of my current job. I need to take a step back and that's going to have to mean a pay cut to some extent. This would be quite an extreme one though. The difficulty is (as you point out), it's impossible to know how much you'd enjoy a job / how good a fit it would be until you're doing it.... by which point bridges have been burnt.

I'm really attracted to both the position and the organisation of the possible new role, not something I've been able to say about work in a hugely long time..... but I am aware that anything looks better than the current role so there could be a rose-tinted element.

codemonkey

ZTea - is the payout on the lowest point of the salary range? Because a lot of places will offer a higher salary on the scale for a good candidate who has been earning a bit more.

Apply for it and at least you'll feel like you're doing something and you can practice your interview skills and answers to why are you leaving your previous job questions. Does your current place offer career breaks because if they do that could be a way of hedging your bets?

I also can't help thinking that maybe you could handle the responsibilities of a job on your current level if you were better supported and just doing your own job. That's a failing on your employer and not you.

Today is a bank holiday in Scotland so I'm still off but I am really suffering from the back to work blues. Tree is still up because I'm lazy. It's not 12th night yet so it's OK.

elsien

Aaarghh families. You try to do something nice and world war 3 is triggered.
And breathe.

Pyxis

elsien wrote: »

Aaarghh families. You try to do something nice and world war 3 is triggered.
And breathe.

What's up?

elsien

Trying to sort an event for someone. Something they'll want if it goes to plan. Some of the invitees are throwing toys from pram. Am now wondering if the atmosphere on the night will spoil it for the person it's for so much so that they'd rather do without. Only I can't ask them yet because I didn't want to get hopes up by mentioning it until I knew if it was possible at all. If that makes sense.