Walking Out (job)

Not to mention the mustard industry.

So you'd be looking at hopefully being a lot happier in your work for £4k less than you were on last year. If you're able to cope with that, then why not?

I did live in Scotland a long time ago (as a kid) and the place really is as rainy as the jokes say and they all speak funny. Plus irn bru.

That's great news. I remember briefly having no mortgage and it felt wonderful, like I had more money than I could spend. So that and your new lifestyle and you should be really happy and that's much more important than money.

Where abouts in Fife? Like anywhere, there's a wide range of places! From the finest wee fishing villages in the UK, to post-industrial shit holes, it's got the lot!

And I've jumped career path a few times...I'm not really career-orientated....never looked back. No point in being miserable in your job.

Frightening innit. I think I have 19 years to go.

When crypto takes off you'll not need one. lol

Do it. I recently quit my job and had a new one in 5 days. The owner was a complete twat and I was really miserable. I got more money but would take less for happiness. It's priceless. You're at work a long time it's not worth having a knot in your stomach all day because you hate it.

A little late to the thread, and more or less echoing what others have said... whilst the money is a personal thing (i.e. can one get by on less, would more actually make one happier, etc.) being happy in the life you're living surely has to be the ultimate goal.

I've grit my teeth and stayed at my current place throughout the pandemic - because adulting -and I have been unbearably miserable throughout because it's a shuddering shit-show.

Now the job market in my sector is returning to something like normality I've gone out and gotten myself a different job. It's a step up in salary, for which I'm thankful, but a massive step back in career terms. The last half decade or so I've really been stretching my technical legs, but this gig is right back to stuff that's in my comfort zone. I'm really looking forward to the simplicity of that, and getting back to just enjoying the day to day rather than getting stressed out and frustrated and having to spend spare time up-skilling.

So yeah - money and personal circumstances notwithstanding - making bold changes, and sacrificing one thing that might not matter so much to better another that could be the difference between a life enjoyed and a life regretted.... no brainer. Chase the happy.

Ours is also until I am 70... But tbh, a huge amount of it will have been inflated away by then, and we both have pretty good salary increase prospects (well the private sector wife at least, even after a couple more promotions my public sector pay wouldn't increase to what I was earning before this role abroad).

For what it's worth it's what I did with my first job after Uni. Software dev which is what I wanted, with a small company of about 5 people, thought it was a good fit. But I quickly learned that what they actually wanted was someone working in customer support as that what was what I was treated as. Long story short ot eventually got to a point where I was actually getting chest pains. I went to the doctor about it and after a physical he was like "How's your job going?" and I let it out. Decided to quit soon after and this was only after 4 months into the job. I felt a bit of shame, I thought maybe I couldn't do it. But I tried again with a different company and stayed with them for 5 years being much happier for it. Don't regret it at all.

you can start planning how to quit your current job, sure we can help with that

what about crapping on your bosses desk while maintaining eye contact as you do it and make sure to point at your your eyes then at them to asset dominance? 

Just in time for the awards.