Well done for sticking to your guns.
I will buy you a pint this evening to welcome you to the ranks of the unemployed

Cheers Groovy.

I'm now officially unemployed and and have no income. Therefore, if anyone else feels the need to buy me a pint then please feel free.

I really hope I find a job soon. Which rig are you on Offshore?

Got an acknowledgement letter from Aramark, but not really bothered. I'm going for admin jobs.

Found some contacts in Aberdeen who have sent my cv out to their contacts. So, fingers crossed they'll push it for me and put me to the top of the pile.

Me too. I've been told the stewards are on crap money and do crap hours. Admin here I come..................well, hopefully.

May be seeing you in the near future.

Just what I got told. I'm not proud, I'd happily start anywhere, but if I can start in admin then that would be better. Fingers crossed anyway.

I'll buy you one tonight in the Shakespeare between 7pm and 8.30pm.

With all due respects i dont think its worthy to congratulate someone on packing in a job , if the said person had something else lined up then fair dos.

I think if someone is suitably pi$$ed off with their job, it is getting them down and they are in a position to chuck it I say well done to them. If it is a genuine gripe it may make the company improve conditions and be a better employer. I don't get the impression that Tigga is just doing this to be an idle, unemployed dosser. Many people in this situation reappraise their lives and go onwards and upwards – good luck to Miss Tigga.

Last summer I packed my job in with nowt lined up as I was bored, pissed off and fancied a change. I was lucky enough to have some savings to tide me over for a couple of months, and it was one of the best things I've ever done.

I went out the other night with a load of people who I used to work with. 2 of them were made redundant recently, and I'm happy to say they've both got better jobs with more money and prospects. They both said they had no motivation to get a job previously, stuck in a rut and all that.

Sometimes you have to get yourself out of a situation to see it objectively. Good luck Miss Tigga, enjoy your free time and I've no doubt you will get something much better than you were doing before. The right kind of employer will appreciate your attitude.

Just to clear up any confusion,Miss Tigga has wrapped a job that she was unhappy with to pursue another option,she has not packed in to become a layabout.
I for one applaud her for doing something to change her career instead of just ambling along.

Good luck Tigga. I am sure you'll be sorted before long.

sorry, was letting my mind wander again...

It's true, I'm not becoming a lay about. I left work on Friday and already have a weeks training this Monday with the prospects of entering a new career. Also, I have two jobs, so before I handed my notice in I contacted my manager of the pother job and sorted out extra shifts and hours with them as I didn't want to become a lay about.
Also, as PIN says, I have a bit of savings to tie me over and I wasn't motivated enough to look while I was stuck there in a rut.

Just wanted to clear that up.

now we know what you get upto!

Good luck, Miss Tigga and well done...too many people waste their lives in boring jobs and don't do anything about it. You'll still post on the board tho, won't you, when you've gone off to pastures new?

Of course. I looked out, but didn't see you on Friday, but then again I din't know what you look like!

Oh well, I just blend in with the crowd. It's safer that way

I know if I wasn't married, I would definitely take the bull by the horns and have a look at the World, sell the houses and clear off for a year or so, and see what happened. I know a couple of lads who've done this and settled down in more tropical climes, and don't regret it either.

Out of curiousity, what job were you doing Tigga

counting grains of salt?

I agree here.

Dead end jobs or ones you don't like are all too easy just to go through the motions in.

What can some people say they've done.

Went to work in job they hated year in and year out.

Or actually did something, made an impression, an impact, did something unique, made people happy, better or comfortable.

I (and groovy) know a lad who took his redundancy, sold his concours VW camper and went round the world for a year. top geezer.

he is now running his own business and is happy as f and one of the nicest blokes you'll ever meet.

Here he is in NZ

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I was an accounts and finance manager for a small manufacturing company. I didn't mind the work, I was just under paid and taken a lot for granted.

A rut is easy to get into but virtually impossible to get out of for most people, Travelling is something I wished I had done when I was younger but with credit cards, relationships and pissing up my money like most other people its something that feels a long way off and impossible....

What a great pic and story to start off a horrible Monday morning. Makes you feel all things are possible after all!