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ushjr

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Is there a question in there? 

Surely it’s something for you to decide. 

AskAsk

i am surprised you are making a big thing out of 30 minutes!  i would not get too bogged down with time you finish and go for the job that is the one you like best.

i am used to working long hours when i do work so whatever time the office finish was never a consideration, as often than not i am still there when that time comes if we are busy.  i am the sort of person that would be prepared to stay to midnight if the going gets tough, as long as i am compensated for the extra hours that i put in, and i do not feel i am being taken advantage of.

if you are so focussed on the finish work time, i would imagine it would be difficult to get a job that is well paid?

why do you worry so much about the time you get home?  do you have children to pick up from school or dinners to make?

Marcon

ushjr said:

I've always been a strong believer in getting the working day out of the way. 8-4 is better than 9-5 and 7-3 is even better. Unfortunately employers think the opposite, in the jobs I've encountered finishing before 5pm is non existent, 5pm finishes are rare, most finish at 5.30pm and some finish at 6pm.

The 6pm finish is making me really anxious, but I feel that if I was to get offered the other job and accept then I'd be making the same mistake as before.

Being 'a strong believer' is one thing; being 'made anxious' by a 6.00 pm finish suggests there is more going on here than mere personal preference.

If your finish time is absolutely essential to your mental well being, then you are likely to need to look at other careers which offer shift work, or require an early start (postal workers, carers, cleaners, newsagents all spring readily to mind). Which sort of change would be easier for you to cope with? If the answer, as I suspect, is 'none of them', then working flexitime if you can find a job offering that, or even working part time, may be your only realistic options.

Mickey666

What sort of job are we discussing here?
Personally, I’d rather have flexibility and focus on my work than be constantly clock-watching, which I would find soulless and tedious, but I guess it depends on the job. A customer-facing role might have to have fixed hours whereas a more project-orientated job should be more flexible.  

MovingForwards

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6158361/taking-a-job-you-dont-want-after-redundancy-advice/p1

Opinions and comments will be the same when you asked earlier in the year.

Office jobs tend to advertise their hours, so if they don't fit with your routine, why apply for them? Or apply for them and see if they will be flexible with your start / end time. 

Did you take the advice about seeing your GP.

theoretica

Set your watch 2 hours early.

AskAsk

ushjr said:

AskAsk said:
i am surprised you are making a big thing out of 30 minutes!  i would not get too bogged down with time you finish and go for the job that is the one you like best.

i am used to working long hours when i do work so whatever time the office finish was never a consideration, as often than not i am still there when that time comes if we are busy.  i am the sort of person that would be prepared to stay to midnight if the going gets tough, as long as i am compensated for the extra hours that i put in, and i do not feel i am being taken advantage of.

if you are so focussed on the finish work time, i would imagine it would be difficult to get a job that is well paid?

why do you worry so much about the time you get home?  do you have children to pick up from school or dinners to make?

You're right, it shouldn't be such a big deal. Being a slow eater is part of it and the later I eat the slower I get because I'm so stressed at eating late. During this period of unemployment I've been having my dinner at 5pm every day. No children. It's just making me really anxious.

i see.  for me, i can't get up early so i could never do a job that starts any earlier than 9am unless it is 30 minutes from my house!

i don't mind staying late but i can't start early.  i would often turn up 30 minutes late or ask to start later than office hours if i had a long commute.

if you are offered the job that finish at 6pm and you think it would suit you, you could always ask if you could start earlier and finish earlier by saying something like you have to pick up your dog from the dog sitter by 6pm or you have family comitment that requires you be home by 6pm.

some employers will be flexible and can allow you flex of 30 minutes as this is not a lot of time. 

as i work long hours anyway, employers tend to turn a blind eye that i never turn up on time at the office.

JCS1

ushjr said:

MovingForwards said:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6158361/taking-a-job-you-dont-want-after-redundancy-advice/p1

Opinions and comments will be the same when you asked earlier in the year.

Office jobs tend to advertise their hours, so if they don't fit with your routine, why apply for them? Or apply for them and see if they will be flexible with your start / end time. 

Did you take the advice about seeing your GP.

That one went quiet and I never even had an interview. The one I've been offered never advertised its hours, nor did a lot of jobs I've come across for that matter. If I had no other interviews I'd take the job despite the 6pm finish. But knowing I could potentially be offered a job finishing at 5.30pm is making me question it, but like I said in that other post I vowed never to work for a similar company again so maybe I'm letting the 5.30pm finish cloud my judgement.

I'm on the waiting list for CBT but I've done it before and it never did any good. 

It can take several attempts for CBT to "work", you need to be in the right frame of mind for it to, so give it another go with an open mind

KatrinaWaves

ushjr said:

MovingForwards said:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6158361/taking-a-job-you-dont-want-after-redundancy-advice/p1

Opinions and comments will be the same when you asked earlier in the year.

Office jobs tend to advertise their hours, so if they don't fit with your routine, why apply for them? Or apply for them and see if they will be flexible with your start / end time. 

Did you take the advice about seeing your GP.

That one went quiet and I never even had an interview. The one I've been offered never advertised its hours, nor did a lot of jobs I've come across for that matter. If I had no other interviews I'd take the job despite the 6pm finish. But knowing I could potentially be offered a job finishing at 5.30pm is making me question it, but like I said in that other post I vowed never to work for a similar company again so maybe I'm letting the 5.30pm finish cloud my judgement.

I'm on the waiting list for CBT but I've done it before and it never did any good. 

The thread went quiet because the issues you are having are not employment based, but more to do with your own mental health. That is not for a forum to diagnose and help with, it’s a medical thing you should speak to someone about.

all we can say is try and apply for jobs where it’s shift work based, or retail. Supermarkets often have early shifts (my first job was 6am to 12pm in a bakery in a supermarket) 

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Could you not look for a job from home/remote work? Half hour can make all the difference. I only say this as in recent time, I applied for a job thinking it was just a 35 hour week and when calculated the advertised hourly wage it came out at around £16,300 - interview notes later said it was a 40 hour week and so actually worked out to be £18,700 with no commute option, it turned into a potential no brainer and pretty grateful my presumptions about the classic 9-5/1 hour lunch break were out.