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Easy 9-5 jobs

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Airbuss · 05/11/2023 09:59

Hi all - I’m about to quit corporate life. I have £100k in savings and want to look for a job that will pay my mortgage off gradually. I think I could do it on a £40k job. I want to prioritise my health and not be in a senior role anymore.

any tips on jobs where I’m not going to be regularly exposed to senior management and I have a good start and end time with no daily extreme stress?

My skills are in communications. So I could do comms, editing, copy writing. Any other tips?

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NeverDropYourMooncup · 05/11/2023 10:03

You won't like the way people are treated for that sort of money. It's often all of the work for somebody being paid loads more, all of the pressure, all of the criticism, all of the micromanaging and being on the sharp end of kneejerk reactions, blame, poorly planned reactions and a lack of autonomy in return for about two grand a month. And you'll be assumed to be less intelligent, less hardworking and less valuable.

Better to go part time in your current sort of role than that.

DoratheFlora · 05/11/2023 10:08

NeverDropYourMooncup · 05/11/2023 10:03

You won't like the way people are treated for that sort of money. It's often all of the work for somebody being paid loads more, all of the pressure, all of the criticism, all of the micromanaging and being on the sharp end of kneejerk reactions, blame, poorly planned reactions and a lack of autonomy in return for about two grand a month. And you'll be assumed to be less intelligent, less hardworking and less valuable.

Better to go part time in your current sort of role than that.

^ This in spades.

There is a general misconception that people on the lower rungs of the ladder have it much easier. They don't!

I roll my eyes when I see people say they are going to step down and get an 'easy little admin job'.

macaronip1e · 05/11/2023 10:16

How about a move to public sector/civil service? My OH moved from a stressful corporate role to a role in the relevant government department. Pay scales are lower and he took on a role with less responsibility (initially), so large pay cut - however he has little to no stress now, and much greater flexibility in his hours.

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Airbuss · 05/11/2023 10:33

Sounds ideal thanks macaronip1e

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Tadpolle · 05/11/2023 10:52

NeverDropYourMooncup · 05/11/2023 10:03

You won't like the way people are treated for that sort of money. It's often all of the work for somebody being paid loads more, all of the pressure, all of the criticism, all of the micromanaging and being on the sharp end of kneejerk reactions, blame, poorly planned reactions and a lack of autonomy in return for about two grand a month. And you'll be assumed to be less intelligent, less hardworking and less valuable.

Better to go part time in your current sort of role than that.

Absolutely nailed it!

I've just left a mid level job like that for a more senior post that in a weird way I think will be less stressful! For all these reasons given. Might as well be making the decisions that affect me and the team, rather than be the victim of them! And get paid for work I'm doing anyway.

Ginmonkeyagain · 05/11/2023 11:23

To go very easy low stress you need to drop another £15k off that salary expectation.

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