Job Making Me Depressed...

TE549

Case closed.

Thank you everyone for helping.

Brightonsbest_2

Hi

You are a young man and a working man, so be proud of yourself

Clearly, you are not happy with your job as you hate the work and your employer appears to be using use as cheape labour.

Next week or soo investigate different jobs, think about them, discuss with family, think about travel, time tto get there and back, wages, start finish, and then apply for other jobs but don't leave this one until you get another job - worse case scenario, if another job does not work out, try again as being bored, not liking you job is not good for you.

Btw, if you really have another job in mind and lack quals, study part time, ie personal trainer, looks good but most are self employed and unelss you live in london, you may be hard pushed to get a decent wage

ATB

comeandgo

If your employers won't pay to put you through any college training and you don't like the job, get out. You will not progress unless you have the relevant paper qualifications, you will be an assistant until you are 60.

Can you afford to go to college or university to get some sort of sports training? Is there any sort of job you could see yourself doing? Working outdoors could involve animals, game keeper, though again this involves going to college, I think it's day release. Do you like travel, air steward, could you do nursing, police or ambulance driver?
I think you need to have some idea of what you want, then go for it.

TE549

Thanks for your replies. I like the idea of becoming a personal trainer but as you say Brightonsbest, the reality is that it's hard work and long days to make ends-meet. The PTs I know generally work 12 hours or so a day in their local gym, plus you need your own clients.

comeandgo, I could afford training in a new role yes. I will look into other sports roles and see what kind of training is required. I also know someone who recently gave up his job and started working on his own as a gardener/landscaper and seems to be doing ok. I would enjoy doing this myself, but again there's already competition out there. I would probably need some sort of qualification to do any good at that too, but it's something else for me to look into. I must admit I prefer to work alone too, so this would benefit me. However when I say alone, I don't mind working with clients I just don't enjoy being around the same person day in day out!

annandale

You could do a gym instructor qualification rather than a PT one. Mine took me five days to complete. Those jobs tend to be salaried rather than self employed.

You could also do a PT qualification which will give you the gym instructor qualification as well as you have to do one to get the other. Which would give you the option of working as a gym instructor and doing PT outside the gym. My advice if you are going to do that is shop around. Some companies will charge you an arm and a leg but you can get gym plus PT plus some add ons for around a grand if you look hard enough.

There are also some qualifications that you can do quite quickly. Door supervisor if you wanted to work in pubs and clubs or security at football matches or at gigs etc. Takes five days, costs around 200 quid and then you pay for your badge which is 220 quid.

theoretica

Is there a career to be had working in a motorsport shop or training as a mechanic?

PixelPound

I was initially going to suggest looking for alternative surveying firms (as whilst yours is happy to keep you at an assistant there may be others willing to fund you through especially as you already have experience), but after reading your full post, maybe not.

If you want a complete change then do you want to work for yourself or someone else? If the former then you could look at what you'd like to do and feel you could make work, then look into how to achieve e.g. The PT as indicated previously seems one choice.

If you want to work for someone else then you need to convince them that you are suitable, this is done by giving examples of where you have used the skills they require (e.g. work/hobbies/etc). Since you don't have a burning desire to go in any one area, maybe you need to consider your strengths and transferable skills. It may give you an idea of the types of job to apply for, even if you look at it as just a stepping stone to get out of your current job.

TE549

I've kept thinking and had a look around at sports jobs (PT, sports teacher) and I think it's best I look into something else. To be a PT / gym instructor would involve working most days/evenings just to make ends meet, which I don't really mind but I do have to think about my girlfriend too. The pay would be less than what i'm on now too and I realise the grass isn't always greener on the other side! I looked into becoming a sports teacher in a primary school too, but I would need a degree to get into this role.

I do have a new idea which suits me down to a tee. I'm going to keep it to myself for now until i'm sure but I need to get out of surveying. No job is worth it if you're not happy and it affects you mentally. Thanks for your help guys

annandale

My brother is a gym instructor. He works five days out of 7 and gets a salary.

It's not the highest paid profession but as you said, it's about being happy in your work as well.

TE549

Where abouts does he live? Any idea what his hours are like? 5 days out of 7 doesn't sound bad at all. Did he find it easy to get a job once he'd trained up? Thanks for your input

20aday

One thing I will say OP is I'm glad (although that feels like the wrong word somehow) that you're recognising you aren't happy and trying to do something about it.

Please don't ever make the mistake I did-stay in the same job for ten years and spend at least half of that feeling really low and getting to the point you have no enjoyment in anything.

At my lowest ebb I seriously considered walking onto the main road outside my work place and throwing myself under the HGVs that went onto the industrial estate.