I've took voluntary redundancy



Cowvahlo said:
:lol:Such a conflicting post, was that a compliment or an insult?

Tbh one thing I wouldn’t mind a crack at is going into schools in a consultancy role and look at process improvements to deal with all the data capture and crap that does with it. Again, the stories I’ve heard about it there’s so many other much easier ways of dealing with that type of thing. It’s understandable that schools can be drowned in it when you’ve got teachers who are trained to teach trying to deal with all that crap. Of course there’s no way a school is going to pay consultancy fees for me to do that so the other way to do it is to teach and try and change from within.

I could be talking complete bollocks and have a head full of fairy dust though.
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You can’t just make jobs up you know Cow.
 
The Rat said:
I was really really unhappy at work and with life, worked unsociable hours (although could travel due to time off), I know I had to do it, but I am now very anxious with worry, about being unemployed and what lies nex. I'm a particularly anxious chap at times, so this is a big deal for me.

I've a few ideas of what to do next but its absolutely daunting, as I am looking a changing careers possibly or even going back to Uni to retrain, its hard to tell at this stage what is realistic and what isn't.

Has anyone done anything similar?

arrrgh
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I can relate to this exactly and would myself like to return to Uni. to retrain. However:

1) I was strongly advised to return to work as soon as possible and told, being the wrong side of 40, I should be concentrating on professional qualifications to further the career I was already following. I'd fallen into Quality, something I hated, and this advice would leave me developing a Quality career I would not enjoy. The gist of the advice was if I gained further academic qualifications, I would make myself less employable. However, there are skills gaps I believe I could fill by taking even a nine month to one year course and my gut feeling is this would be the right move (i.e. chance to escape Quality).

2) All plans had to be put on ice due to the health of an elderly relative. However, there is an ironic twist here that I could study part-time or via distance learning (i.e. Open University - requires discipline to juggle around your everyday life) in the near future whilst looking after said relative. This is being looked into.

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Returning to point 1), the thought of returning to something I myself hate abhors me. Will your redundancy cover Uni. fees? Are you eligible for a post-grad student loan to carry out a further year of study, say Masters Might you even consider a PhD where research council bursaries might cover fees and also your living expenses?

Note if you take the latter option, it has to be something you could be really into as a PhD takes a lot out of you. That said, you learn a lot about yourself as a person.There's a few ex-PhD people on here who'll help should you wish to consider this.

On the other hand, Masters or post-grad diploma is a quick in-out if you just want to relaunch your career in a slightly different direction. You might consider a specialisation that would make your future career more interesting. Alternatively, you could look at conversion courses (i.e. computing) to completely change direction.
 
The Rat said:
I was really really unhappy at work and with life, worked unsociable hours (although could travel due to time off), I know I had to do it, but I am now very anxious with worry, about being unemployed and what lies nex. I'm a particularly anxious chap at times, so this is a big deal for me.

I've a few ideas of what to do next but its absolutely daunting, as I am looking a changing careers possibly or even going back to Uni to retrain, its hard to tell at this stage what is realistic and what isn't.

Has anyone done anything similar?

arrrgh
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