I much prefer to not work. I don't hate working, it's a bit boring, but some bits I quite like. I'd just rather not go at all.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:26, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

There's the rub, though.
I'd rather be in work than not, but easily think I could fill in my days if I had the means with which to retire.

At the moment, I have neither. I loved what I've done career wise for the last 14 years, but by christ it's hard to get back into on a long term basis right now.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:29, Reply)

I feel ya Bro

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:31, Reply)

Exactly, I think it's the *having* to work part which is least desirable

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:32, Reply)

It's even worse when you had a job that you loved and then lost :(

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:33, Reply)

You should have worked harder ensuring the survival of your employers business. It's your own silly fault.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:35, Reply)

My side was really doing well
It was the contractual side that was the main reason we folded
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:38, Reply)

I'm only kidding, I was in a very similar situation when I got made redundant. I was running the only profitable part of the business.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:39, Reply)

WELL AT LEAST YOU GOT REDUNDANCY PAY :(

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:42, Reply)

Yeah I was really pleased with a couple of grand after a decade of work, and having to go through court proceedings to get it!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:43, Reply)

:(
Now you're just rubbing it in
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:48, Reply)

If you have a job that you enjoy, it makes it worthwhile.
Which, in turn, makes it all the more unbearable when you decide to take voluntary redundancy just at the point when a new government comes into power and shits all over the sector in which you've worked for 10 years :(
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:34, Reply)

^

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:36, Reply)

^ TGGI

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:38, Reply)

I have said it before, I really like where I work, I really like the people I work for and with, but the actually work is pretty boring now I've been there for a while and set up a new part of the business.
I think I might try to do something completely different at some point soon.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:38, Reply)

I'd like to do something different, but I'm fucked if I know what.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:39, Reply)

Now Chompy's killed himself I'm sure there is a vacancy for a paperclip salesman

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:41, Reply)

Here lies my problem!
My mum said she though I'd be a good blacksmith as she saw some telly programme about it. Yeah, thanks for that mummy.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:41, Reply)

It seems to have worked out ok for WeePee

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:40, Reply)

I quite admire him for retraining and going for it.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:42, Reply)

I'm also glad to have helped him in his new career path

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:49, Reply)