Last day of work today, woohoo

[mattbrown]

I currently work for the HMRC and moral etc is a joke here, yes i am nervous about sorting job for the future, it is the one thing always on my mind, but i have chosen this route, because I have cleared all my debt, and i see no reason to carry on living where i currently do, i rarely see my mate, because he is married etc, and (his wife is a bit controlling) and so by moving back to Devon, i will be closer to my old mates, who i still keep in regular contact with, closer to my parents and in the surroundings I love, yes the work prospect isnt as good, it has certainly changed since 1999 when i moved out of the area.
I want ot see this as a good thing, and a new start, with long term aims, rather than when i was in my early twenties just living for each weekend, I also have some crap memories that keep getting reminded of, where i currently live.

 

[IDB1]

Good luck sunshine. . . .sounds like a positive move to me

 

[rojo]

I currently work for the HMRC and moral etc is a joke here, yes i am nervous about sorting job for the future, it is the one thing always on my mind, but i have chosen this route, because I have cleared all my debt, and i see no reason to carry on living where i currently do, i rarely see my mate, because he is married etc, and (his wife is a bit controlling) and so by moving back to Devon, i will be closer to my old mates, who i still keep in regular contact with, closer to my parents and in the surroundings I love, yes the work prospect isnt as good, it has certainly changed since 1999 when i moved out of the area.
I want ot see this as a good thing, and a new start, with long term aims, rather than when i was in my early twenties just living for each weekend, I also have some crap memories that keep getting reminded of, where i currently live.

What part of Devon you going to??

 

[silverclaws]

I do see a future for this country and its people, but I do believe we have to move away from the centralisation of everything for it's not working is it.

I believe what the country had in the past worked, communities that worked within themselves looking after each other by trading skills, the only irritation was a marauding thug coming and saying the land they occupied was his, given to him by someone no one knows or has seen but is their ruler. Fine as long as this person does not cause too many problems fine, he can be ruler but in comes the thug with his band of thugs in his employ, he proceeds to threaten the community and from it thug makes money the community has to pay for 'protection' and then through one way or another we come up with what we have the centralisation of everything, but it is easy to speculate how this came about for it is all there in history.

I believe a way forward exists if we quit looking to central government and started looking to the community, the belief being a big cog in a small machine is worth more than millions of small cogs and indeed idler gears in a big machine.

No doubt a community will evolve back into what we have now, but life is circular so small beginnings, it is natural to become big, but big it seems cannot exist so it fragments and starts the process again.

But whatever, I feel reliance on a central entity isn't working.

 

[Huntso]

Currently off sick, I suffer from chronic cluster headaches and my last attack came during a team meeting

Due to the pain and pent up feelings about work I unfortunately ripped into a few people including the manager and let my feelings about the company be known in no uncertain terms

Left under a cloud of a disciplinary charge and now unsure if I will ever return even If I wanted to

Bit unsure at nearly 52 years of age and 35 years with the same company what to expect of unemployment. Sure it will be very enlightening, bit apprehensive though and as my illness is recognised as a disability not that confident of actually finding another job

Good luck though to the OP and all this has made me realise just how crap life is when your working life is a misery

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

cold calling companies for eg doesn work as it puts the employers back up straight away

It does work if you approach it in the right way, If you work in sales it is a skill you have to have, and if you can't get past the person who answers the phone you have no hope.

 

[mattbrown]

What part of Devon you going to??

Small village near tiverton, lovely riding round there, main road, but i love the hills, and not far from culmstock beacon, so good riding there as well.