How can I leave my role.. what can I do

[Justadapting]

Hi all,

shamelessly posting here for traffic really.

I am desperate to leave my well paying job due to the stupid amount of pressure it puts on me …. It’s all consuming for me.

My worry is not getting another job… what job do I get…. Can I afford not to work (no I can’t)

So my questions is … what remote from home roles do you all do….. looking for inspiration to be able to leave and look for a new (not so challenging) challenge…

Thanks in advance

I think you’ll need to be a bit less vague! What sort of salary are you looking for, and what’s your experience/skill set?

YABU to want a job without telling us your background and expectations.

Advice will vary depending on if you're in banking or charity or in a Michelin star kitchen!

Sorry… head not with it today.

Anything 20k plus is what I’m looking for. I have experience in call centres and admin. No industry qualifications for anything but a degree level education if that helps anyone’s suggestions

guess I’m just looking for inspiration for roles to look into

thanks

As PP says, it'd be useful to know what you do now/what transferable skills you'd have?

I'm fully WFH as a data protection officer for a large insurance business. DH works from home doing an information security role for a bank. Both would require skills/experience/qualifications though, so as above, probably not much help to you.

Cross posted*

Agreed, very vague.
What job do you do now?
Are you looking in the same field or totally different?
What salary will you be looking for?
Skills/qualifications?

If you're looking for 40k a year in a specific sector then someone recommending £18k a year call centre from home type jobs are wasting their time.

Why not browse job websites for ideas? simply, apply for other jobs, once you’ve got one then you can hand your notice in

Why working from home? I think that's more "all consuming" than going out to a workplace every day. Unless you're very disciplined it's easy to hardly leave your desk all day and you miss the interaction with colleagues (I know for some people that can be a good thing but it can also be very lonely at home all day every day).

Without knowing what you do now people really can't advise. I mean my initial advice would be to say that if you are degree educated and in a role which is sufficiently pressured to be causing you this amount of stress (and I'm going to make a big assumption here, that it is office-based), then, you should fairly easily be able to create a coherent story and move across to a less pressured admin job, which pays £20k or more.

I would suggest a PA role at that salary target. Once you've got your feet under the table it's not that difficult, but you will have to go through a learning curve.

Hi - sending love.

I've being doing a lot of self development lately and as I don't have time to read (if I do I'm asleep before you know it) I listen to a lot of audibles/podcasts in the car or on headphones cleaning etc.

Two Weeks Notice by Amy Porterfield is what I'm currently listening to, can recommend it definitely makes you think and gives you advice on what you can do... just thought I had to put it out there.

Good luck xxx

Good luck with your search, but don't assume that working from home will be less demanding than an office-based job

We employ admin who work remotely most of the time, with usually 1 day a week in the office. Roughly where in the UK are you?

Car insurance? Our company is starting people on 23k now on entry level call centre work. No stress

You should have no problem getting a wfh customer service job... there's quite a lot out there. Check Indeed and your regional job search sites

Had a quick look on Indeed for you there OP.... there's wfh jobs advertised for Teleperformance, AA, Sensee, HSBC, Cabot Financial and HGS.

I do a reasonably straightforward admin job for a very small business but do have to be up to date with cloud based tech and using several business Apps (although have learnt on the job). I've been doing it 8 or so years now during which time the company has increased from 3 people to 11 people, so I know the nuts and bolts of everything. I earn about £32k pro-rata but live in London so salaries are probably a bit higher here.

Customer service roles wfh have your breaks and lunch built in and you HAVE to take them so you're not stuck at your desk all day. You're also talking to all different types of customers every day so the day flies in. You can chat to colleagues over teams, zoom, jabber, slack etc. And there are regular team meetings and one to ones with your manager so feeling lonely is minimised. I've done it before and loved it. Depending on your role and the company you might have bonuses and there is usually good opportunities for progression in these types of roles as they usually recruit for higher positions internally. I know people who have started off as call advisors and moved into team leader roles, training, recruitment roles or quality assurance roles.

@walkies123 this sounds like hell to me but each to their own!

Starling bank?

They are a growing business and I know someone who has started at aged 20 and the wage is £24k.

Which bit?
Can actually be good craic sometimes

All of it! fixed break / lunchtimes, being stuck at home all day and stuck on the phone all day.

Minimum wage from April is going up so that any job over 37.5 hours per week is £20.3k pa so pick something that you’re interested in and works for you

Op, 20k is not a well paying job, it's the new minimum wage

1. Set your standards higher than 20k
2. Don't think for a second wfh is a plus!

Hybrid working however, game changer.

I've just left a 47k a year job (48 hour contracted a week, usually 70 hours minimum! high stress, high pressure, unpaid overtime and excessive travel) for a 32k a year role, 37.5 hours a week, I haven't needed to start early or leave late, I have been given all the kit to work remotely if/when needed but have a permanent desk in the office with other human beings.

Best thing I EVER did for my mental health. I was nervous about taking a paycut and a reduction in responsibility but omg, my productivity for 7.5 hours a day is through the roof as I'm not burnt out/having a meltdown, but I still get job satisfaction. I still work to tight deadlines and no day is the same, but I have absolutely no regrets about changing.