to leave my job because it's really really boring but really really convenient and "perfect"

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Im an agency worker on a long term contract. Im doing admin and I guess because I'm an agency worker they basically give me the crap jobs. Theres shit loads of paperwork to go through and copying and pasting from various spreadsheets and data input. It's fucking mind numbingly boring.

But the pay is good considering what I do, it's 5 mins round the corner, colleagues are fab, management really good, it's flexible, I can change my hours to suit around my family needs etc. It's perfect in every way in that sense. .

Aibu to leave or should I stay put. I am the main carer for the dc as dh earns a lot more and he works longer hours/ ft etc. I live in a crap northern town which just doesn't have any jobs- not talking professional level jobs- just jobs! I basically would struggle to find a job around the kids with such great flexibility. I don't know what to do!

I would suck it up for now. But would be looking forward and planning my future escape route i.e. training, making contacts etc.

Only you know if you can afford not to work.

Stay put

Can you actually do the job easily?

can you do mine, I'm shit with data

There's a lot to be said for a family for a family friendly low stress job. I have similar, pays OK, people are nice, 15 minute commute and although it's a professional role so looks fine on me CV, it's not particularly challenging. It suited whilst my DCs were little but I'm getting itchy feet now they don't need me so much.

I wouldn't quit with nothing to go to, but no harm in looking around.

God I know how you feel. I’m beyond fed up with my job buuuut it works brilliantly around my young DCs so for now I’m sucking it up and planning to win the lottery

It is what it is but if you’ve not got anything else to go to and jobs are scarce you’d be daft to give it up if you can’t afford to live without working

Wow, I’d be really delighted to have something like that. Priorities are different at different times. Maybe Keep an open mind about changing jobs/looking into training if necessary?

How old are your dc? Primary I would probably stay put but maybe plan any retraining, secondary I would start to look at other options which might be more fulfilling.

I would stay tbh. Close enough to walk to work and back, great colleagues, good pay. Worth its weight in gold that lot!

theres no perfect job if boredom is the only problem id keep it.

If you would struggle to find a job that fits around your kids, coupled with a lack of jobs then I'd say that gives you your answer.

In your position I wouldn't leave unless I had something else to go to anyway.

Taking the easy option, can sometimes result in a high price to pay.

I presume you’d go from this job to another. Have a look at the jobs market. Is there any chance of a job coming up at your current place?

Stay put. Flexibility, good management and colleagues are worth their weight In gold. I wd however consider nightschool to retrain for a new career.

Stay in your job.

Can I have it though, if you do leave?

How old are your DC? Could you stick with it until they’re secondary school age?

Stay put, make yourself i dispensible, and pick up a permanent better job alongside the nice colleagues when one comes up.

I wouldn't leave, but I'd be looking around and thinking about what I might like to do.
I've been in my current job for three years, it's very comfortable and I like my colleagues a lot although there are some management issues.
I could easily stay forever but I want a change, but I wouldn't leave unless I had a new job to step into.

With young kids and a higher earning partner I might stick with it until kids are a bit older and take advantage of the flexibility, as long as you don't think it might make it harder for you to move on. I do like my job, but I've only in the last year or so started thinking about stepping on the gas a bit in terms of 'career' now that kids aren't tiny anymore and we generally have an au pair

Stay in your job and learn a new skill /take a qualification which will feed your brain and help you move on when the kids get older.

I dream of a low mental load job. Just do the work, go home, have a life.

If I could pay the bills on it and cope with the noise, I'd go back to barwork or something like that in a heartbeat - the idea of potentially plugging in my earphones and just getting on with spreadsheets and the like sounds positively relaxing.

Stay where you are. Flexibility is an amazing benefit.
What do the company do?
Can they train you up to do something more skilled alongside the admin??

Stay unless you find something more interesting to go to. But don't just leave for nothing.

Probably suck it up and stay. I'm in a similar position. But i'm a single mother of 3 so only earner. My job pays well, flexible time, work from home 2 days out of 5. Logistically it suits me well, juggling time and childcare etc. But oh my god, mind numbingly dull, I've been doing it over20 years now. I'm sort of stuck though. Won't get the pay or flexibility elsewhere.