Mid-life crisis or new beginning?

life is too short to just put with with stuff. you spend a lot of your life at work, at least try something else or you will regret it forever. I have never stayed in a job for more than 5 years and I still dont know what I want to do.

Originally Posted by tigersaw

Err yes, why?

Just wondering! Having an avatar of something doesn't always follow what you actually do. If you follow me!

AND you said, I'm very good at what I do!! Hope so, doing what you do!! :P (But never said what you do..........)

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by kciN

Just wondering! Having an avatar of something doesn't always follow what you actually do. If you follow me!

Does that make me a cartoon character or not????

One piece of advice - don't become an accountant. Although I'm not the variety that lynw came across (I'm a management accountant) month end is BORING, and very repetitive. The project work I do now is far more interesting but I'm labelled as a bean counter and I'm never likely to be able to break that. Re-training is not an option for me - my mortgage will not go away while I try and build my salary back up to current levels.

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

One piece of advice - don't become an accountant. Although I'm not the variety that lynw came across (I'm a management accountant) month end is BORING, and very repetitive. The project work I do now is far more interesting but I'm labelled as a bean counter and I'm never likely to be able to break that. Re-training is not an option for me - my mortgage will not go away while I try and build my salary back up to current levels.

Accounting can be interesting - especially if its fraud or asset recovery from drug dealers. Money laundering is a joy to follow accounting wise too :P , very rewarding when you get to the end of the trail and can prove it.

Had I not been off to another department, I would be applying for the accounting bursary to get my proper qualifications and do the fraud work above.

My current job isn't so bad. I do worry how they're going to treat me when I drop the bombshell that I'm transitioning into a new gender(for me)
My boss doesn't even like hiring guys with earrings/long hair. It's sure to be interesting...

Originally Posted by Razor

My current job isn't so bad. I do worry how they're going to treat me when I drop the bombshell that I'm transitioning into a new gender(for me)
My boss doesn't even like hiring guys with earrings/long hair. It's sure to be interesting...

Originally Posted by nutty tart

Is that how you think he'll react?

I work for the Royal Mail <now that is a dead end job! been there 17years and i hav'nt got the go in me to do anything else now thats sad

As lyn says, I started my own business last October. I love it. I'm a solicitor. It's damned hard work, I'm often there till 10 or 11 if not midnight, and I don't make megabucks - it's so competitive that I can't afford to charge a realistic rate, I'd get no work at all, so I charge an average of £400 for resi conveyancing. Sure you can get it cheaper on the net - if you really want to give your work to a call centre outfit to be done by a secretary that you can never talk to - but I offer a rather different approach.

Very few people have truly original ideas. If you're looking for a new career, I suggest you start by being as honest as you can, and do a SWOT analysis. And then pick up the Yellow Pages, and consider all the types of listing. Can you afford to buy a business? You'd be surprised how adaptable your skills are. For example, I knew a solicitor who got ****ed off and bought a quarry. He made a lot of money - getting planning for a quarry is nigh on impossible - but far more important, he was happy as Larry. How much £££ do you have, will it support a retraining? What sort of work do you really want to do? Think about franchising. Or you could set up from scratch, as I did. I know a former IT guy, he worked for Orange, he'd had enough and set up a sandwich shop from scratch here In Shrewsbury. Not a new idea, but imaginative branding, excellent product, premium price, terrifically successful....

I honestly think that as long as your proposal is reasonable, there is always a market. The knack is finding it.

Oh and lyn, the ****ing VAT return is due at the end of the month. Yes I have the ££ to pay it, it's the time to do the nuumber crunching that's the problem

I think any job can become a chore after many years - people say to me "what a lovely job - being an artist" but to me it is a job and I get fed up like in any job - yes I enjoy it - but it is still work - I dont paint for a hobby anymore at all like I used to