Do you find it hard to find a good job?

Adriana87

I am so stressed at the moment. So much so that driving home from work yesterday I somewhat considered driving off the road into a ditch. it was dark, wet, I was tired having left the office at 23:00 so it would be seen as an accident and my life insurance would have paid out.

I am being a bit dramatic and this thread is just as much of a rant to give me some head space than anything else. First two jobs were fine. Left the first for an increase it wage and enjoyed the second meeting some really knowledgeable people, making good friends and feeling I personally progressed. Suddenly made redundant and found myself taking up a job for a much smaller employer (300 staff compared to the 5,000 of my previous).

Had a good start but the internal issues started to show their head. I was in Partnership Management (sales) and we had a marketing team that was near useless, no CRM and things go so bad that I sought mental help because the depression was setting in. Decided to quit without having another job in place and ended up where I am now, again, another small company with around 200 employees.

Small sales team of 5 people including myself and my boss. One person was sacked after 5 weeks (who started with me), one person left because of the stress and then my boss and another colleague left to join a rival company leaving me as the only person. That has caused a number of issues as I am doing the work of 3 other people (we recently hired a new boss) and again, despite me bringing it up during the interview, we have a shoddy CRM.

Numbers are always wrong, I can't provide data to clients, marketing team suck and I am just banging my head against the wall everyday. I know working for a big company is a lot different from working for a small one, but I feel that the stuff that are missing are inexcusable. People are dicks and take things way too personally. For example, a customer service rep handed in his notice and was forced to work in a corner on his own for no damn reason. How petty is that?

Can't wait for the day the mortgage is paid off and I don't have to have all these !!!!!! jobs.

bugslet

Bad jobs are bad jobs, they aren't indicative of the size of the Company.

I think whatever, you need to leave your current Employer and find someone else pretty pronto if it's afecting you that badly. I appreciate it's difficult at times, but feeling that piddled off, is no way to live.

ReadingTim

Depends on what a "good" job means to you. Is is:

• good pay
• good pension/benfits eg company car, health insurance etc
• good job title
• good hours
• good colleagues
• good boss
• good employer name to have on the CV

Some of these you can determine before you take the job. Others you only find out once you're there. Some "good" jobs will be rarer than poor ones, if pay is the thing you need to be "good".

Others will be rarer because you have a high (or too high) standard of what is "good". Or because you aren't sure yourself of which "good" is the most important.

In some cases, some of the goods listed above are mutually exclusive - you're unlikely to get something offering high pay and short hours, for example.

IAmWales

Have you been back from maternity long, how are you feeling aside from work?

My advice would be to get away from sales. What you're describing is part and parcel in many sales environments and it takes a certain kind of person to thrive (and there's definitely no shame in not being that type of person).

[Deleted User]

Is there a good job out there? I thought I'd really landed a good job but ended up thankful I can get out of there in 8 months or so.

25 days holiday they said... Nothing about how they also get you to bank hours when you work extra so when with others who are owed this time plus their holiday, just when do you get to take it. Only second week in and someone's gone sick for the week.

I've got jobs because I've been easiest to employ.

Invest in a SAD machine for this time of year. Crashing your car is for when your ex employer rejects your application for a job you know you could do even above that of the position they once stuck you in and you would turn up dreading one particular day of every week, do I wish I'd just gone sick more often.

JamesFuller

The key to finding a good job is to become extremely valuable.

You then have a lot of options to choose from.

Sarastro

Take some holiday. Refuse to work more than your contracted hours. Get some more mental health support and look for something completely different.

Sarastro

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Is there a good job out there? I thought I'd really landed a good job but ended up thankful I can get out of there in 8 months or so.

25 days holiday they said... Nothing about how they also get you to bank hours when you work extra so when with others who are owed this time plus their holiday, just when do you get to take it. Only second week in and someone's gone sick for the week.

I've got jobs because I've been easiest to employ.

Invest in a SAD machine for this time of year. Crashing your car is for when your ex employer rejects your application for a job you know you could do even above that of the position they once stuck you in and you would turn up dreading one particular day of every week, do I wish I'd just gone sick more often.

Don't listen to this person.

stuartJo1989

Well... I immediately notice that you have been doing the same sort of job for quite a while

Can't you do something different?

It may all be the same sort of rubbish, but a change may help you.