People start hating their jobs at age 35
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
6 months to go for me, stopping work at the end of this tax-year when my current contract ends, age 52. Salted enough away to be financially independent in retirement: Savings>SIPP>Work Pensions>State Pension.
Quite liked my chosen career, but never liked being managed. Might study something that I am interested in, or do the odd bit of contract work if I fancy.
Quite liked my chosen career, but never liked being managed. Might study something that I am interested in, or do the odd bit of contract work if I fancy.
Study: perhaps go back to uni full time and do a masters, probably Renewable Energy.
Contract work: definitely -- to keep my mind active, and for pin money (mainly for two-wheeled and four-wheeled expenditure). Holidays already built into the basic calcs, but upgrades from pin money sounds like a plan.
#17
Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
Then change... I started to get bored and grumpy around then - totally changed the sector I worked in and it was like starting out all over again. Will do the same in another 10 years
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
Not only does a sector change result in different projects / products / services, but it also usually results in colleagues (and clients and a supply chain) from different backgrounds and with different outlooks, which then totally transforms your working environment and the processes in which you're involved.
The sectors I've worked in have ranged from underpinning (with an army of squat Paddies manually digging under house foundations), through installing security systems in places I'm not allowed to mention, to building sulphuric acid plants in Iraq. Same basic skills from me, wildly different environments.
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
I'd like to change sectors one day.
Difficulty is I actually really enjoy this sector and the types of people (mostly) and being involved in projects from the start, albeit from a different perspective (take Expo - If I ride it out, I'll be one of about 4 from us who have been there from the start).
That being said, Construction attitudes towards so many things / areas can be just totally backwards, archaic, old fashioned and painful at times. Very much an old boys network and the negatives are multiplied by this region.
I wouldn't mind working in a tech / start up type environment. Or somewhere less 'stuffy'. Hard to describe, maybe just an industry that's better at not trying to crush every ounce out of every soul, that invests in it's people and sees modern ways of working and ideas as positives not negatives.
Difficulty is I actually really enjoy this sector and the types of people (mostly) and being involved in projects from the start, albeit from a different perspective (take Expo - If I ride it out, I'll be one of about 4 from us who have been there from the start).
That being said, Construction attitudes towards so many things / areas can be just totally backwards, archaic, old fashioned and painful at times. Very much an old boys network and the negatives are multiplied by this region.
I wouldn't mind working in a tech / start up type environment. Or somewhere less 'stuffy'. Hard to describe, maybe just an industry that's better at not trying to crush every ounce out of every soul, that invests in it's people and sees modern ways of working and ideas as positives not negatives.
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
I like what I do. I can't see myself changing profession after achieving all these qualifications. I like my firm. I just don't like the current location.
#24
Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
Those industries probably don't source their people via recruitment agents though...
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
What I do now isn't just volume paper pushing. It's very low volume compared to many in this sector, it's filling specific roles that aren't going to be just anyone and need to fit in different, intangible ways. Thin cultural, attitude, personality, behavioural, intelligence.
Yes, some are easy, square peg square hole type hires, but many are about the 'fit'.
Any business worth working for will think along those lines for some / all / most hires. Even more so 'those industries'. They sell themselves based on their culture, environment, values etc.
#26
Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
For some people the change of job every 10 years or so is not their choice. There is a constant round of layoffs in some sectors. Several old work colleagues have been laid off around the 55-60 age.
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
Rule Number 1: There is no sentiment in business. Rule Number 2: See Rule Number 1.
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#28
Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
Precisely. I've fulfilled basically the same function throughout my career (except for a 3 1/2 year stint, which was still about 50% of my basic function) within the "built environment", but in varied sectors. Changing from one sector to another made huge differences, but I was still deploying my same basic skills, training and experience.
Not only does a sector change result in different projects / products / services, but it also usually results in colleagues (and clients and a supply chain) from different backgrounds and with different outlooks, which then totally transforms your working environment and the processes in which you're involved.
The sectors I've worked in have ranged from underpinning (with an army of squat Paddies manually digging under house foundations), through installing security systems in places I'm not allowed to mention, to building sulphuric acid plants in Iraq. Same basic skills from me, wildly different environments.
Not only does a sector change result in different projects / products / services, but it also usually results in colleagues (and clients and a supply chain) from different backgrounds and with different outlooks, which then totally transforms your working environment and the processes in which you're involved.
The sectors I've worked in have ranged from underpinning (with an army of squat Paddies manually digging under house foundations), through installing security systems in places I'm not allowed to mention, to building sulphuric acid plants in Iraq. Same basic skills from me, wildly different environments.
#29
Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
I've changed employers 7 times in a 30 year career, and in hindsight I should have changed more often. With one of those employers, I worked for 13 different General Managers, each lasting an average of 8 months in post!
Rule Number 1: There is no sentiment in business. Rule Number 2: See Rule Number 1.
Rule Number 1: There is no sentiment in business. Rule Number 2: See Rule Number 1.
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Re: People start hating their jobs at age 35
10 employers in nearly 40 years, with durations from 6 months to 11 years. Some I left of my own volition, some not...