Quitting a perm job for temping?

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Has anybody ever done this?

I’ve been at this job for a couple of months and I feel really stressed, there’s no support, it’s pretty toxic etc.

I’m living in a place with DP who is in the the military. We will be in this place for 18 months max, his next posting hopefully come up sooner and we can move back to the south east on a permanent basis. Yay!

There aren’t an awful lot of jobs here, lots of tourism and retail work, not a lot of office jobs.

The council has a temp bank and I’ve heard good things about it. The pay is okay. I’m thinking of leaving this and working on the bank? Financially, DP is happy with this (or even me not working for a while) and we have plenty of savings too.

My CV is pretty solid so I’m not worried about leaving this job off.

I've input on your other thread so I can understand why you want to leave!

Have the council said there's something they can give you immediately? If you can go through the initial registration to be on their bank, even if they don't have something immediately, they could call you as soon as something becomes available. Then you could have a steady flow of work to cover the whole of your 18 month posting. That's the good thing about temping, you can cover for absences, Mat Leave, holidays etc.

If you are in your probation period at your current job, you're probably on a '1 week either way' situation, which is convenient. What you probably don't want is to pass probation and get locked into a 1 month notice, if your intention is to leave. Depends how desperate you are to see the back of them!

I have an interview at the Council for a temp to perm job that pays better than my current one. It’s a brand new role and would be in roughly the same specialty as I’ve worked in before. It may become perm but they said if it doesn’t they always need temps and it’s easier to pick up roles if you are already working there.

I think I’ll leave my current job off my CV! A couple of months won’t really add anything and I’ll have to explain why I left.

Fingers crossed!