Quitting my job??
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- peterorpete
Hi I've been thinking about quitting my job for a while now as I'm not having the opportunity to create the type of work I enjoy. I want to take a couple of months off learning new things and rediscovering my love for graphics once again. Any way I'm a bit worried about finding a new job afterwards in this recessive climate. What is the health of the graphic industry at the moment, are a lot of companies struggling and so not looking for designers as much. So my question is what is the state of the UK's particularly London's Graphic design job scene, will there still be a healthy demand in two months time??
- Marcelom0
do it.
- Mojo0
Now's the time, probably.
Recession isn't too bad right now.
- meffid0
do it. it's always a good time to quit and never a good time to quit.
if you're any good, you'll always find a job.
envious you can afford to just quit.
- i've been saving up a two month backup for ages, but i will need a job soon afterpeterorpete
- peterorpete0
That was the quickest response ever, didn't even have the time to read my fat paragrapgh
- Marcelom0
I can tell you, you should do something with your website if you want to get another job... heheh all the weekend with the computer doing it! :D:D:D:D your girlfriend will not understand and she will no do you a blowjob tonight.
- :) yeah defo, that two months would give me a chance to brand my self and hopefully find a better job becuase itpeterorpete
- Nairn0
What meffid says - if you're any good, you'll always get a job.
I've been made redundant without warning (during the last internet bubble bust event), quit a couple of times without any real fall back, and I've somehow always pulled through (*fingers crossed* - I'M NOT TEMPTING YOU, FATE - DON'T TAKE MY STATEMENT AS A CHALLENGE!).
I guess it'd help if you've got some kind of freelancing option so that you can tidy yourself over - but, in short - if you've harboured thoughts of moving for any amount of time, it means you should move, regardless of economic climate.
(Personally, I think, for the most part (and assuming you're not a blue-collar worker or a tightly-bound mortgage-holder with a stupid rate) that all this 'credit crunch' bullshit is shrill yelping by the media - I don't know of anyone who's felt any real difference. Even if it is - people will always need work doing, so there will always be freelance options if you're willing to put the effort in).
At least, I hope this is all true - I'm about to make a bit of a gamble myself over the next couple of months, and if the credit crunch really is that bad, then I could be risking all of my meagre worth.
Oh, and London's the place to be if you want work - always has been 'always' will be (for the forseeable, anyway :)
- Christ, I really do write a lot of shite.Nairn
- I love your shit Nairn!peterorpete
- Well, that makes one of us.Nairn
- WeLoveNoise0
lol was just gona post what marcelom said before i read it
- meffid0
to pee or not to pete?
- THAT is the question I ask...meffid
- i would peepeterorpete
- peterorpete0
Thanks everybody, another reason i want to leave work is because the companies not doing very well and I've already had a talk with the boss telling me that I should be prepared to find a new place, this was a while ago and he hasn't given me notice yet but it makes you feel unsettled and complicates your mind a bit. So in a way i'm cheekily staying around incase of redundancy pay which would be quite helpful
- WeLoveNoise0
go freelance ?
- Russell_Sprout0
Maybe you should try harder? But I dunno man, I don't know you.
- peterorpete0
im in a Indian restaurant/bar at the mo on my own drinking kingfisher with really wailing depressive indian music, only becuase they got free wifi because ours is broke. Making me question my life!!
- go to india
will put ur life in prospective 4 sureWeLoveNoise - my friend lived there for a year, appreciated life alot more afterwards, you can live like a king there for nothingpeterorpete
- thats two different comments, they didn't appreciate life because they lived like a king!!
peterorpete
- go to india
- babaganush0
Plan to do it now man. Sort you work/site out - look into shit. Just in case your boss decides to trim his company anyhow and you don't have a headstart. If you're thinking of it you can definitely achieve it. Start now though no matter what
- NONEIS0
Do it, if you are not doing what you love, or have settled into a niche you don't think is your thing, do it, I can't say it enough. I recently did the same, and I am so damn happy now, it's kinda freaky.
- i_monk0
do it
- ukit0
- cursiveshotgun0
it seems like a lot of people are quitting lately.
- Vicentvangogh0
Quitting while the economy is slowly eroding is probably not the best time to quit, good luck!
- statistically, many people who forgfe independent careers do just that...you think your job is super-safe?babaganush
- studderine0
quit all day long.
- SoulFly0
If your boss told you that the company is not doing well and you should be prepared, why not stick around and save up money until you finally get a notice of termination? In the mean time, keep building your portfolio... And also like you mentioned your redundancy pay can help at the end.
I think the problem is more of a frustration, because the company is not doing well... I went through that before, sucks when all the co-workers keep whispering and spreading rumors and you are always looking over your shoulders... It is not a good work atmosphere, and I feel for you in that regards... But just be strong- my advise is stay until the end.