What a great feeling - quitting my job

**Flip** · 14th December 2011, 08:56

I have just done the same thing.

I have been employed as a engineer in the petrochemical industry for the last 30 years, walked out of my last employer with 5 years of their R+D. I found what looked like a great job in a petrochem engineering construction company, I lasted 7 days before I walked, hated the place. Now working for a irrigation company and have never had so much fun, out in the sun, hooning around farms in a 4WD fixing all sorts of things, no fucking staff and if I fuck up its just water.

Just going out now to have a look at a weir in a river that is used to measure the flow because it is giving me silly measurements.

**Pseudonym** · 14th December 2011, 09:48

I went from overalls to a suite and tie.
(not so much the tie anymore)
Same money and I’m not getting torn open, covered in grease or burnt.
Should have done this when I was 20, not nearly two decades later!

**HenryDorsetCase** · 14th December 2011, 10:02

Originally Posted by Pseudonym

I went from overalls to a suite and tie.
(not so much the tie anymore)
Same money and I’m not getting torn open, covered in grease or burnt.
Should have done this when I was 20, not nearly two decades later!

a lounge suite? a bedroom suite?

enquiring minds.......

**avgas** · 14th December 2011, 10:45

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

a lounge suite? a bedroom suite?

enquiring minds.......

3 piece I imagine

Leave the man alone nitpicker

**HenryDorsetCase** · 14th December 2011, 10:48

I was hoping for a bedroom suite with ties...... ooh errr.

**vifferman** · 14th December 2011, 11:45

I was getting really pissed off with things, and was offered a better job with a previous employer, plus an extra $10k, plus benefits (free medical insurance, free life and disability insurance, free gym memebership). I was looking forward to going, "In your face! Up yours!!", but my boss is such a lovely guy I just felt bad telling him I was about to ruin his Xmas...
And strangely, I don't feel better. I have some reservations about the new job, and being here for three more works weeks is gonna be hard. Filling out my HR quizz made me very agnry, as it stirred up in me lots of feelings about the things that piss me off about the job, and the shit job some of the (mis)managers here are doing.

**ducatilover** · 14th December 2011, 12:06

I just ran out of work, does that count?

**Maha** · 14th December 2011, 12:45

Originally Posted by orangeback

Great felling quitting my job , after 9 years, i feel great about chucking it in. They tried to put a guilt trip on me, scare me that its not a good time to be looking for work over x mas, but i did it. and it felt good.
They came back with more money ( what an insult ) i wasn't getting that b4.) i said i didn't hand my notice to get more money. and it shouldn't take that to get it.
Offered a diffident management structure to report to,
rock on 2012 and a change of career.

You quit a job and turned down more money before securing another job?
Along with the feel good, I take it thats also afforable?

**MSTRS:Me** · 14th December 2011, 12:52

Originally Posted by Maha

You quit a job and turned down more money before securing another job?

I think most of us are having trouble with that one.
Brave? Or stupid? Only time will tell.
OP - Do report back in a few months.

**orangeback** · 14th December 2011, 18:33

Originally Posted by MSTRS

I think most of us are having trouble with that one.
Brave? Or stupid? Only time will tell.
OP - Do report back in a few months.

i had 3 jobs tabled and now has become 5 ,but i have now signed a new contract for the new year,

**kiwifruit** · 14th December 2011, 18:48

Originally Posted by MSTRS

I've been applying for jobs for a whole YEAR - nothing...

Are you having a laugh?

**hellokitty** · 14th December 2011, 20:55

Originally Posted by Madness

Awesome feeling, innit? congratulations.

When I last changed jobs I soon found myself sleeping better, getting sick less often and generally smiling more often as well. Now, if only I could earn the same coin as before...

I know if I got a new job I would be less stressed but would have to take a pay cut of about $10,000. Then I would stress about not being able to pay the mortgage!

Originally Posted by NinjaNanna

So what did you do for a job? What do you want to do now?

I've been in the same industry since 1997 and frankly I'm bored - trouble is I've no idea what I'd be good at doing and find rewarding.

I am in the same boat as you - I want a change but have no idea!

Originally Posted by Little Miss Trouble

Absolutely correct.
Last week I stopped applying to jobs that were advertised by recruiters and applied for just three that were listed directly. Interview for one of those places first thing yesterday morning, offered the job by midday

I went for a job interview through an agency - they never actually met me - just talked to me over the phone - they sent me to the interview which went well, but then the agency called my current employer to get a reference! Can you believe that, especially when I specifically said that this was to be strictly confidential.

Originally Posted by ducatilover

I just ran out of work, does that count?

ME too

**Little Miss Trouble** · 14th December 2011, 21:22

Originally Posted by hellokitty

I went for a job interview through an agency - they never actually met me - just talked to me over the phone - they sent me to the interview which went well, but then the agency called my current employer to get a reference! Can you believe that, especially when I specifically said that this was to be strictly confidential.

They sound like complete cowboys, they are NOT allowed to contact anyone for a reference without your expressed permission

**mashman** · 14th December 2011, 21:50

Originally Posted by Maha

You quit a job and turned down more money before securing another job?
Along with the feel good, I take it thats also afforable?

I did exactly that and it wasn't affordable at all, no money coming in never is. Quit my job for sanity reasons (1 guy left 8 months before after suffering a heart attack). Wife, 3 kids, BIG mortgage, no job, worst that could happen is we lose the lot and end up on the dole (been there, well as a student, apart from money stresses we had a fuckin ball). I've never been out of work for more than a couple of weeks since leaving Uni. After a few interviews I started to realise that my core skills had become outdated, fuckin coding, with the younger and the spoonfed and the cheaper coming out of Uni with quals and training that surpassed mine. Hey ho... spoke to the bank who I've banked with since we got here 5 years ago, they told me to burn my savings (which I was going to do anyway) and load up my credit card (I was not prepared to do that) before they'd give us a mortgage holiday (credit card being the failover)... fuckin cunts... the lady was similar to yourself Maha, "you quit your job without another one"... I coulda slapped her about quite happily (you may get away with a spanking). Anyhoo, turns out I was 3 years behind the technological times, so brought out some old code, head down, arse up and got stuck into re-training whilst applying for jobs. 9 weeks later and I bagged a contract after meeting a guy at a kids party... which in turn turned into another contract which finishes in a couple of weeks, and so I'll be back on the job hunt. Had a second interview today which would mean a switch from coding to consultancy and am mulling over the "change"... could be fun and I've been dying to get out of the coding trap (although I wanna do something very different). 15k less than the job I left... My wife is in the last 2 for a job, but if she takes the job she'll be working for approx -$115 per week after childcare costs, go figure...

Amazing how leaving your job and throwing yourself into the pressure pot focuses the mind though. Anyhoo, I have a bucket load of up to date skills (self trained), I remember how fuckin cool javascript is and have reflected on my career and identified some interesting skills that I've taken for granted.

Enjoy it OB... it can be an interesting ride.

As a side note... It seems the only thing you can't do these days is leave your job for sanity reasons. Stupid fuckin world and it's stupid fuckin inhabitants. If there wasn't a better way I'd give up and go on the dole....... ach, some of you won't have a fuckin clue what I'm talking about (yes yes, no more than usual)...

There's more to life than money!