To hand in my notice with no job to go to?

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I really hate my job. Going in every day is depressing beyond belief.

I've been working, apart from time off to have my DC (which was stressful because I left my previous jobs so was job hunting) for over 20 years. I've had a couple of weeks gap between jobs but that's pretty much it.

Now I feel burnt out. I am overwhelmed by the stuff I have to do outside work. I spend every weekend asleep or vegging on the sofa at the moment rather than doing anything I need to.

I don't have a mortgage, and I have about a years salary saved (this was to go towards a major expense in the next 2-3 years). Wibu to hand in my notice next month and take say 3 months off before returning to work?

do it if you think you can re-enter the market (that you want) - sometimes a change is a positive thing.

sorry mean to add, if you can spend that time sorting out your 'outside work' problems, then definitely do it.

Normally the advice is its easier to move to a new job, from an old one. However if you have funds this doesn't necessarily apply.
What I would suggest is that you have a plan for your 3 months 'off', for a few reasons -

1. you can then tell potential new employers something positive about your 'career' gap, eg took a course, visited a new country
2. you don't spend the 3 months 'vegging on the sofa'
3. give yourself something positive to look forward to and acheive
4. if nothing else delay resigning until the weather's better!

How about you spend the next month planning something you have always wanted to do, put a plan in place and then resign. You can still have time sleeping / chilling out but you'll have something exciting to look forward to.

The job i have at the moment is very niche and doesn't really exist elsewhere. It will be difficult to get another job whether I take time off or not I think.

I have to give 3 months notice so even if I hand in my notice this week, I couldn't leave til June.

I would plan to spend the time off mainly finishing renovations to my house and garden.

Yo could always ask if they do voluntary severance ? That way you'd leave with a package

Go for it if you can afford it, I've done it - it's quite liberating!

Also does you r company offer unpaid time off if you'd like to go back say in a year

My
Company do short periods of 3 months unpaid or longer periods of 12-36 months unpaid for various reasons

There's no chance of that I'm afraid. They only pay the statutory minimum for redundancy, and don't offer any kind of voluntary payment.

I do know of people who have been been given unpaid time off but it's been in exceptional circs like a parent being terminally ill abroad. Not because they didn't want to come to work any more which is basically the case for me.

I don't think I would have a valid reason to seek an unpaid sabbatical.

Just leave OP. Lifes too short to be unhappy at work if you have the means to support yourself otherwise.

Have your three months get yourself organised then go back to work if that is what you want.

My only worry would be - will you be able to get another job once you're ready for one?

Lots of places do have a policy around unpaid sabbaticals though, it’d be worth checking your HR policies just in case you could apply - they can only say no and if you’re planning to leave anyway it’s just another option :)

Also consider short term contracts. It's easier to jump along from one of those I think. What are your transferable skills?

Leave OP. I left my last job with nothing to go to (I was being pushed out and treated horribly). I just had that feeling that life was just too damned short. I quit and days later, was contacted by another company with a fantastic, flexible opportunity and I'm incredibly happy here nearly 4 years later. Sometimes, taking a leap into the unknown (particularly with the kind of savings you have) can be a wonderful and liberating thing.

If your not happy hand in your notice. There is no point in being miserable and letting it affect the rest of your life. Life is too short to waste on a job that is making you depressed.

Good idea about the unpaid sabbatical. You never know until you ask. I would think a member of staff facing burn out would be a good person to give an unpaid sabbatical to

I think renovating your house and garden would be a good use of your time. Would you plan to return to the same line of work or something completely different?

Jump and the net will appear OP. Can you look at getting another job doing something that interests you seeing as you don't presumably need to earn much?

In the short term I can live on savings. Longer term I will need to earn around my current level (50k) for a few more years as I have virtually nothing in my pension at present, and to pay off some upcoming major expenses without having to borrow money.

Our sabbatical policy basically refers to exceptional and/or grounds. I don't think i fall into either.

I'm a lawyer but in a very niche kind of role, kind of support but not exactly. I have some transferrable skills into a more typical support role. Alternatively I would like to go into something like the HSE but jobs there are like hens teeth.

Exceptional or compassionate grounds that should have said.

OP I am by no means an example but I did this last Friday, they asked for a weeks notice...and I am so so happy! Nowhere to go to yet but I can afford being at home even for a year if necessary(God forbid!)...

Anyway!!! I feel relieved and empowered.

Good to hear someone has done it. Relieved and empowered is how I want to feel. I'm so frustrated in my current role, without wanting to sound arrogant I'm really very good at what I do yet I have been shoved into a side role while other irritating self promoters glory hunt at my expense. It's all so fake. I can't wait to get out of here!

Do it! I did it - I used to work for a hearing aid company for a demon boss and I hated my life to the point I nearly threw myself down my stairs one night to injure myself so I wouldn't have to go. I quit in the December of 2013 with a few months pay saved and had no job to go too. I now work in an oil company doing administration and I've never been happier - 4 years has flown by.
Absolutely do it!!!!

OP, then do it and never look back. I have 2 interviews lined up already, we shall see. Best of luck and let us know whatever your decision is!

I wouldn't, I'd just throw everything into job searching and swap as soon as I found something new.

If single, it's different but when there are ad children involved the adult needs to be responsible and quitting work with no new job to go to because you don't like it isn't responsible.