Originally Posted by instigator

454697819 - Are you not in the same industry as me, building services engineer?

I had the worst time with my previous employer, stayed with them for a total of 8 months, working so many god damn hours and not getting any overtime. I put in 70-80 hours weeks easy which, for a graduate, is just silly. The manager at the time had absolutely no idea how long the requests he made actually look to carry out and as such, I was working every weekend, albeit using building simulation software so a lot of it was sitting around, waiting to get some results.

Took one trip back home (scotland) and came back to the office at 8pm, the day before I was due back to check up on emails. And it just twigged, life isn't supposed to be like this, this is at a time when I should really be travelling, enjoying life to the full etc. So I wrote out a resignation letter and sat it on his desk. Went home, turned my alarm off, turned my phone off and went to sleep.

I'm still in the same line of work now as a design engineer but work with fantastic people who I get along with really well. And I go home at 5pm too! Woohoo!!