Am I sounding ungrateful/moany about my job?

[Huws2]

Been with current company c.15 years, a few promotions but hit ceiling since c.2021 and can’t really progress further. Couple of unsuccessful attempts to move sideways.

Decent salary/bonus, generous holiday and flexibility. As secure as a job can realistically be in current climate, and any redundancy package would be good.

However - career is essentially dead end now, minimal interaction with colleagues since hybrid policy came in, manager is uninspiring and the work isn’t rewarding. Hours spent a week with nothing to do. Only Tuesday and I feel down about things already.

Spoke to a friend about this who thinks I need to count my blessings and many would love this position.

I am mid 30’s if that helps. Would you move on even it was a risky move/initial drop in salary? As there is a potential career change I have in mind.

Well you’re both right IMO (no one has to be wrong) you’re perfectly entitled to feel frustrated and bored and want to move on. We all make decisions like this all the time, that’s your decision to make.

But, friend is also right, you’re in a very privileged position that many would be so grateful for, I’m sure it’s all of your own doing and you deserve it but most people don’t want to hear people moaning about their job regularly, especially if they are underpaid, not job secure etc.

Good luck with whatever you decide!

@HoskinsChoice If you lack ambition or any kind of career drive then yes, you'd kill for that. But if you've got a brain and want to challenge yourself, innovate and contribute more then settling in a job you don't like is madness. Thankfully not everyone wants to do as little as they can for as much as they can earn.

I do have ambition and drive. But my current job isn't challenging (apart from being very busy), so of course I would swap a non-challenging job for a non-challenging more highly paid job.

The other aspect that you're missing is that a well-paid non-challenging job frees up a lot of spare time which could potentially be used to find challenging part-time work, study, or to "job craft" (i.e. find jobs in other departments that she likes and take those on).

If you're voluntarily moving from a non-challenging role to a non-challenging role then you don't have drive and ambition. You will never progress in life unless you challenge yourself.

@HoskinsChoice If you're voluntarily moving from a non-challenging role to a non-challenging role then you don't have drive and ambition.

That makes absolutely no sense.

If I move from a non-challenging role to a more highly paid non-challenging role, then that's a no-brainer because there's financial gain.

Of course, I would prefer to move to an equal or more highly-paid challenging role.

You are inferring stuff from my posts that isn't there.