I was in a job last year that I'd turned down once and always regretted it, so when it came back up again I went for it. It should have been my dream job really and there was a lot to like about the job and love about the organisation. There is a lot of pioneering going on and their growth is fantastic if maybe a bit too fast for their own good.
I was the sole systems administrator for 5 businesses and educational establishments coming under 1 umbrella company. I was on 28.5k and had very little support above or sideways, my direct manager understood very little about what my job technically entailed. The upper management above me were probably best described as bullies. The department was constantly in crunch mode and there was very little consideration for staff well-being. For the first time in my working life I had to take time off due to panic attacks and anxiety caused by work. I learned a hell of a lot but always said when that learning dried up it was definitely time to move on.
I had enough of being overworked/underpaid/not respected and left for a job a recruiter got in touch about, 9K pay rise but a rough, expensive commute, I just needed to get out of that place though, it wasn't going to get better and it was a huge payrise.
The job isn't really what was in the brochure though, I'm back doing a lot of 1st/2nd line stuff with a sprinkling of 3rd / infrastructure work, they seem to be paying me that 38k almost as a retainer if they do need that knowledge/experience. Now I am often pretty bored and unmotivated by the work I am doing, add that to long days and commutes, it is really making me dread getting up in the morning. Ironically I would have loved a hybrid job like that at my last place if there were support from above with someone to learn from, maybe there is just no pleasing me.
Not sure what to do now, I feel like I'm done with IT and often feel not far away from jacking it all in, I'm already moving back in with my folks to knuckle down and get my debts sorted. The debt is probably the only thing stopping me along with a lack of other career prospects.
I was the sole systems administrator for 5 businesses and educational establishments coming under 1 umbrella company. I was on 28.5k and had very little support above or sideways, my direct manager understood very little about what my job technically entailed. The upper management above me were probably best described as bullies. The department was constantly in crunch mode and there was very little consideration for staff well-being. For the first time in my working life I had to take time off due to panic attacks and anxiety caused by work. I learned a hell of a lot but always said when that learning dried up it was definitely time to move on.
I had enough of being overworked/underpaid/not respected and left for a job a recruiter got in touch about, 9K pay rise but a rough, expensive commute, I just needed to get out of that place though, it wasn't going to get better and it was a huge payrise.
The job isn't really what was in the brochure though, I'm back doing a lot of 1st/2nd line stuff with a sprinkling of 3rd / infrastructure work, they seem to be paying me that 38k almost as a retainer if they do need that knowledge/experience. Now I am often pretty bored and unmotivated by the work I am doing, add that to long days and commutes, it is really making me dread getting up in the morning. Ironically I would have loved a hybrid job like that at my last place if there were support from above with someone to learn from, maybe there is just no pleasing me.
Not sure what to do now, I feel like I'm done with IT and often feel not far away from jacking it all in, I'm already moving back in with my folks to knuckle down and get my debts sorted. The debt is probably the only thing stopping me along with a lack of other career prospects.
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