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I just resigned

Ariadne

12:54 / 08.11.04

Bloody hell. I'm not normally a 'throw it all up in the air' kind of risk taker, but I've hated this job from the very start, six tedious months ago. Principally, but not only, because of getting up at 5am. I'm on three month's notice, so that gives me a bit of breathing space.
Hurrrrrayy!!! I'm off now to ride my bike up a hill and then jump up and down excitedly. And yes, a little nervously.

sleazenation

13:01 / 08.11.04

Oddly enough i spotted a job vacency in the paper the other week that i thought was just up your street... but didn't look into it so have no idea if its doable in your present local - anyhoo - congrats.

Triplets

13:27 / 08.11.04

FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Persephone

13:52 / 08.11.04

Oh wow, well done and congrats. And best wishes!

Nobody's girl

13:55 / 08.11.04

"Take this job and shove it!" eh? Congratulations, Ariadne.

JOY NO WRY

14:12 / 08.11.04

Nice work, ace.

I wish my inclination to resign from crappy jobs had won the race against my tendancy to get fired from the a couple of times.

Sax

14:20 / 08.11.04

Gosh.

Axolotl

14:38 / 08.11.04

Good for you. Nothing beats that feeling of freedom you get when jacking in a shit job.

Ariadne

14:54 / 08.11.04

God, I just feel so good. My shoulders have unknotted for the first time in months. I'm sure they'll get tense again when job hunting kicks in properly, but it definitely feels like the right decision.

HCE

15:33 / 08.11.04

I did the same thing back in February and I'm still gloating. Good for you, and congratulations.

sleazenation

15:45 / 08.11.04

So you didn't do the same thing in february and are not now lying in the gutter with little idea of where your next can of special brew is coming from....

pornotaxi

17:13 / 08.11.04

does this mean i won't get the lowdown on the hushed up local council / mafia scandals at the next barbebmeet? aawww.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

17:41 / 08.11.04

Come back to London, cooooooooome baaaaaaack to Looooondoooooon!

Seriously, it's a shame that what I seem to remember you thought would be an ace job didn't work out, but congrats for having the courage to tell them to stick it.

sleazenation

18:13 / 08.11.04

No, no stay in scotland until I've visited you and THEN come back to London...

Ariadne

18:31 / 08.11.04

Don't worry, I'm staying in Bonnie Scotland. Loomis can find his true masculine role as a provider and I'll practise scone-making.
But no, it shouldn't take long to find something. I hope!

Ariadne

18:34 / 08.11.04

I did, in fact, make scones yesterday and Loomis ate five. That's pretty good going. Maybe I'll start a vegan scone business.

Loomis

18:49 / 08.11.04

I can't wait to start enjoying the moral high ground. I didn't do the washing up? Hey, you quit your job! I should get off the couch? Hey, you're unemployed! I can see this working out a treat.

And yes, scones are a far mroe valuable currency in our house than money.

■

19:04 / 08.11.04

aaahhh, scone making. The second oldest profession.
Well done, chuck! I can see how the dark side of the building (the one where you deal with local news for local people) could be depressing. Me, I'm still trying to convince myself that it matters when I correct the fashion editor's misuse of schizophrenic every week. Hell, I'm getting paid. So, party on the 8th February?

angel

19:47 / 08.11.04

Well done hon. You've been so unhappy with that situation, so good on you for making a start on the path back to happiness. Sending good luck job vibes your way!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

04:01 / 09.11.04

Well done! That takes real balls.

Fist Fun

08:59 / 09.11.04

Well done Ariadne. There are few sweeter feelings than walking away.

Benny the Ball

09:03 / 09.11.04

Excellent! I love working notice!

captain piss

11:42 / 09.11.04

Well done mate - you should freelance for a bit - you've certainly had quite a diverse bag of experience in your (albeit quite short) journalism life - you'd be quite sorted for it.
Actually, I'm always going on about this - that everyone should try and become a freelance something-or-other. We all need to escape from this work culture and start living our fucking lives for ourselves a bit blah blah blah ("ere - pass that Special Brew you")

Ariadne

11:52 / 09.11.04

who are you calling quite short?

Well, yes, I might - I'm a bit of a fearty and like a salary coming in, but I'll certainly try to do some freelance work if there's any gap between this one ending and the next whatever-it-is starting. I've just been sitting here dreaming of setting up some sort of business, making scones and delivering them by bike. Or making clothes and selling them on Ebay.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:48 / 09.11.04

Gratters!

Spaniel

08:37 / 01.08.05

Bumptidillyumpump

Yep, another resignation.

As all you keen Boboss-watchers may have noted, I've been hating my job for a good long time. Well, today I finally got around to resigning. I've got nothing to go to as yet, but my CV's looking rosier these days and I'm going to get a full month of holiday pay, add that to a two month notice period and I've got three months to find a new job.

Plans are in place to help me stay sane over the coming weeks. I'm taking a ten day holiday at the end of the month, and psychologically I'm feeling sooo much better.

Future-ho!

Ariadne

08:41 / 01.08.05

Congratulations!

Well done - it turned out to be a good move for me and I'm sure it will be for you, too.

(It was quite spooky to see this reappear, I wondered if I'd resigned yet again. I'm getting quite practiced at it.)

Loomis

09:04 / 01.08.05

So what happened to the idea of delivering scones by bike, Ariadne? I could really go a couple of scones about now.

Congratulations boboss. I'm sure you've made the right decision. Life's too short, yadda yadda.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:15 / 01.08.05

Well done, boboss!

Spaniel

09:26 / 01.08.05

LOL, Ariadne, and thankew, guys.

I can't escape the weird abstract thought that I'm actually punishing my job by resigning. And it feels good.

Also, just had a long chat with my old boss. She's given me all kinds of advice and useful contacts. Apparently she'd love me to come and work in her team.

_Boboss

09:31 / 01.08.05

nicely done sunshine, about good time.

Bill Posters

11:43 / 01.08.05

well done Bobs. (i'm not 100% sure what the job in question was but if it's the one with marked similarities to the one i do then double-well done to yer!)

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