The Workplace & Job Hunting

I managed to swing one of the best interviews I’ve ever done this morning. I usually finish them sweating and full of anxieties about things that could have gone better, but this one I was grinning from ear to ear afterwards.

30 minutes later they offered me the job. I can’t get my head around that I’ve got my foot in the door of my dream career.
 
I managed to swing one of the best interviews I’ve ever done this morning. I usually finish them sweating and full of anxieties about things that could have gone better, but this one I was grinning from ear to ear afterwards.

30 minutes later they offered me the job. I can’t get my head around that I’ve got my foot in the door of my dream career.
Congrats!!!!
 
The decision of whether I can still be a teacher or whether I need to do something else is weighing on me so heavily. It's feeling dark. I love teaching and it's the only thing I ever wanted to do but the noise is fucking killing me and it never fucking stops.
 
The decision of whether I can still be a teacher or whether I need to do something else is weighing on me so heavily. It's feeling dark.
I think if you're considering it, it means you should do it. A change is as good as a holiday! I decided I wanted to get out of retail and I've done my degree, starting a new course next week on top of that. It's taking longer than I thought and a career change is difficult as I have found out, but I'm not giving up. A job is something you have to do full-time for most of your life, so if it's not making you happy try and find something that does and work towards it! Just thought I'd throw in my two cents.
 
I think if you're considering it, it means you should do it. A change is as good as a holiday! I decided I wanted to get out of retail and I've done my degree, starting a new course next week on top of that. It's taking longer than I thought and a career change is difficult as I have found out, but I'm not giving up. A job is something you have to do full-time for most of your life, so if it's not making you happy try and find something that does and work towards it! Just thought I'd throw in my two cents.
I am starting to think this way. My classroom has become like my second home and I'm miserable, so maybe I do need to change. But even the idea of figuring out what change I can make and still keep somewhere around the same salary is scary.

It also doesn't help that teaching is the only place where I've felt even remotely appreciated.
 
The decision of whether I can still be a teacher or whether I need to do something else is weighing on me so heavily. It's feeling dark. I love teaching and it's the only thing I ever wanted to do but the noise is fucking killing me and it never fucking stops.
If you still like teaching, maybe you can still do something in that area but not what you're currently doing. Like:

- Private Tutoring
- Museum Guide
- Child Psychologist
- Personal Trainer
- HR
- Publishing
- Curriculum Designer
 
If you still like teaching, maybe you can still do something in that area but not what you're currently doing. Like:

- Private Tutoring
- Museum Guide
- Child Psychologist
- Personal Trainer
- HR
- Publishing
- Curriculum Designer
Out of those, I would be most interested in being a child psychologist.
 
The decision of whether I can still be a teacher or whether I need to do something else is weighing on me so heavily. It's feeling dark. I love teaching and it's the only thing I ever wanted to do but the noise is fucking killing me and it never fucking stops.

Honestly feeling the same. Switched workplace 1,5 years ago and it's only been going downhill. Really find no joy in teaching anymore. Might be the workplace, so I'm thinking about switching again, but with all the cutbacks it's impossible to find any positions anywhere.

Makes me seriously want to take up programming. Need a degree for that first, though.
 
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The fact all three jobs ghosted me after extensive interview processes, I can't even stomach going through another five-stage+ hell right now.
Fuck the modern corporation. Fuck the ungodly racket that modern prospecting has become. How the barriers to entry to anything that pays more than minimum wage (and even then...) are so high, there's hoops and loops and trapezes you have to jump through to even get on a company's payroll, after which you're still on a highly fragile ledge! And wages aren't even attempting to go up. I know I'm preaching to the choir here but it is so BEYOND extra and it makes me mad for you specifically.

I still think about that interview you did with that lady named Magda on the importance of DEI and advocating for trans rights, and I've used it once in conversation to help educate a well-meaning non-Trumpian friend who just hadn't been exposed to transgender people in the boonies here in Idaho. Your work matters and THANK YOU for it. You genuinely seem like a lovely person Conor, and you've got a real gift/talent in talking with others in a way that draws out openness and builds compelling narratives, that much is obvious. In a just world, we'd have more weatherconors and fewer Joe Rogans.

I wish I had more than compliments to give. I just know how shitty the endless hunt is. Much love!
 
Fuck the modern corporation. Fuck the ungodly racket that modern prospecting has become. How the barriers to entry to anything that pays more than minimum wage (and even then...) are so high, there's hoops and loops and trapezes you have to jump through to even get on a company's payroll, after which you're still on a highly fragile ledge! And wages aren't even attempting to go up. I know I'm preaching to the choir here but it is so BEYOND extra and it makes me mad for you specifically.

I still think about that interview you did with that lady named Magda on the importance of DEI and advocating for trans rights, and I've used it once in conversation to help educate a well-meaning non-Trumpian friend who just hadn't been exposed to transgender people in the boonies here in Idaho. Your work matters and THANK YOU for it. You genuinely seem like a lovely person Conor, and you've got a real gift/talent in talking with others in a way that draws out openness and builds compelling narratives, that much is obvious. In a just world, we'd have more weatherconors and fewer Joe Rogans.

I wish I had more than compliments to give. I just know how shitty the endless hunt is. Much love!
Thanks so much for your kind words, I really appreciate and it really means a lot in these foggy days which have been immensely difficult!

I really hope brighter chapters are on the way after the anguish and imposter syndrome of the current one. It would be too soon if I never saw a myworkday page again!
 

Island

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So I’m considering moving to the UK and hoping I’m able to transfer to my employer’s London office. I am kind of worried about the pay decrease but I know I’ll make do with the necessary adjustments. If I’m unable to transfer, then it looks like it’ll be an uphill battle in finding a job and an employer who’ll sponsor my visa.
 
He/Him
So I’m considering moving to the UK and hoping I’m able to transfer to my employer’s London office. I am kind of worried about the pay decrease but I know I’ll make do with the necessary adjustments. If I’m unable to transfer, then it looks like it’ll be an uphill battle in finding a job and an employer who’ll sponsor my visa.
As someone who's been fucked over twice on relocation deals I'd be very careful.

Make sure they don't just drop you in the bottom of the salary range for your grade, that you clearly understand the impact on any pension plan you have with them, will they provide you with tax planning support, if you own any property in the country you're coming from what are the tax implications of being non-resident/not living in the property anymore?

Glad I did it both times and would do it again but the amount of hassle was enormous.
 

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