Work

[the7Vabo]

I’ll try to stay short.

Im on month 5 of a 6 month career break.

I left due to extreme stress some caused by the job (lawyer in a bank), some caused by my bad work habits (procrastination, disorganised, being easy to anger).

On one level I don’t want to go back, on another I do because I want to fix things I’ve done wrong so I can make peace with myself, although I don’t know if I have the energy. Things were fairly bad before I left, I cried twice in the office.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Are you considering going back to the same job or finding a new one?

I’m torn between both - 1) wanting to go back to fix what has gone wrong and 2) not wanting to.

Can you afford to extend the break while you make a firm plan for the future?

In your shoes I would be tempted to make a fresh start somewhere new rather than going back.

Very tempted by fresh start. Finding it very hard to find the peace to walk away knowing there are things not right.

When you say things are not right, I'm assuming you don't mean work errors? Because surely these will have been sorted out by now?

1) wanting to go back to fix what has gone wrong - it sounds like this is fixing past relationships more than work issues? this will be really tough as things may not be fixable

2. learn lessons from the past and start anew. this is the path which is more likely to succeed.

Yes I do mean work errors. No they won’t necessarily have been, it doesn’t work like that where I work.

Oh, ok. I see. I don't think you need to go back there to put the errors right, unless that is the right decision for you. You can hand in your notice or ask for a transfer or whatever and let them know what the errors are - or just let it go. If the errors haven't been found yet, they can't be that awful, can they?