I can't work in an office for the next 50 years...

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I just can't. Bit of background...

Finished uni, and felt like I need to get a job fast. Felt almost pressured into it but I'm not blaming anyone, I was naive and was all OMG MUST GET REAL JOB mode. Anyway I got a job working in the city centre, pretty decent pay, work with some good lads and it keeps me ticking.

There's no real direct route for progression, and there is so much corporate ******** that it irks me. The 9to5 lifestyle is really not for me and I feel like I'm living for the weekends (well some of them, I work some too). I feel life should be so much more than this grind.

Last year when me and my pals were on holiday we joked about all moving out there and opening a bar or something, imagine the life! I've just been away again and it's made me think again, I can't waste away in this god forsaken office for the rest of my life!

Seeing some of my friends travelling pics/stories on FB makes me regret not doing something like that.

Has anyone given up a decent job and moved abroad to do something? I don't know what to do..

Halp mah GD
 
I'm incredibly lucky in that I'm being relocated to near the Alps.

But I understand the sentiment entirely - I hate working in an office, and yes whilst I'll still be working in an office it's nearer the kind of area I want to live and spend all my free time.

Long term? Hard to say but I've spoken at great length with a friend about opening a dive shop. Not much money in it but in 10-15 years time we'll hopefully have enough put away, so...well why not? Who the hell honestly can say they enjoy working in an office?!
 
I think of giving up everything every single day and moving to somewhere new or doing something crazy. It will happen soon.

I'm 23 and have mates the same age who have settled down in jobs, married with kids, and continuously tell me I should be doing the same and what on earth am I playing at... Yeah, **** that. I will never, ever settle for anything I am not truly happy with.
 
Depends on your job. I do a bit of office work, working from home, and working in client's offices so not always in the same place which is generally more enjoyable.
 
Platypus that sounds amazing! I think if the weather were decent all year round I wouldn't have a problem. I mean it might sound daft but when I can drive to and from work in the sun with windows down I feel so much happier, rather than trenching about in the ****ing rain. Dive shop sounds like THE lifestyle tbh. I guess you're a diver? Me and my friend both have 5+ years experience working in bars so that's why we thought a bar would be good.

The only thing that's stopping me is A) lack of dollar to get going, B) scared of putting everything into it and failing.

I'm not even sure which country I'd go to and what job I'd do in the meantime. It's still early days but yeah, **** this office.
 
Some offices will be better than others.

My first office job was a typical tie and shoes job but I then moved into another job where dress was casual, the banter between the 4 of us was superb and as far as the office was concerned; it used to be a small canteen so one of the walls was just a massive set of French windows next to the building entrance which we would slide open on warm days and watch the girls walking into uni :p
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I'm 23 and have mates the same age who have settled down in jobs, married with kids, and continuously tell me I should be doing the same and what on earth am I playing at... Yeah, **** that. I will never, ever settle for anything I am not truly happy with.
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Yea, **** this **** man! I hate people telling me what I "SHOULD" be doing. I think if I told my parents what I was thinking, they'd think I was absolutely barking mad!
 
Ha ha ha OP.

You're proper ****ed, everyone says this sort of thing and pretty much no one does something about it.

No one likes 9-5 working, but realistically you've got to have money before you can try and get out of it.

"Move abroad and start a bar"

With what money?

I mean I hate my job, I gave it up and did something I enjoyed for a while, then I was miserable there too because I was poor.

It's life - it's not a fairytale. We suffer, slave and expire. There's no happy ending dude, accept it and move on.
 
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Mat said:
Some offices will be better than others.

My first office job was a typical tie and shoes job but I then moved into another job where dress was casual, the banter between the 4 of us was superb and as far as the office was concerned; it used to be a small canteen so one of the walls was just a massive set of French windows next to the building entrance which we would slide open on warm days and watch the girls walking into uni :p
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Yeah! My office dress is casual, and the two lads I work closely with are similar age to me and we have great craic at work. Still, the thought of a life abroad owning a bar (admittedly, I know very little about how it would pan out atm) seems so much more chilled!
 
pitchfork said:
Ha ha ha OP.

You're proper ****ed, everyone says this sort of thing and pretty much no one does something about it.

No one likes 9-5 working, but realistically you've got to have money before you can try and get out of it.

"Move abroad and start a bar"

With what money?
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Yes I am ****ed. :D

That was more of a long term goal. I could move abroad tomorrow and work in a bar no problem, I met a lot of owners who take people on in the summer seasons from abroad. I just don't think I have the bottle. And what would I do in the off-season? I don't know.
 
I worked in a fast paced, dangerous environment and hated the thought of being in an office all day.

Well now that I do work in an office I wouldn't change it for the world atm. For me personally it is less stress, less pressure, less chance of physical violence and more I do actually enjoy the job I do know.
 
This is where I am at the moment.

Have a good job and am paid well but starting to freak out that this is what I'm going to be doing for the next 25 years.

The wife and I have saved a decent amount to buy a house but I've held back as the pipe dream of chucking everything in and trying to make it abroad appeals more and more by the day.
 
FWIW, when I worked in a bar, I had some great fun, I often said if it paid well I'd have done it for a career no problem.
 
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