"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt
I've decided to leave my job, for various reasons. Before I became unemployed in October, I might have said that that three weeks is the shortest time I've ever lasted in a job.
However, I only lasted for one hour in a local cafe in October - not because of the work (it was fine), but because I did the maths when I got home and sadly, realised I could pay the rent on housing benefit, but not working in the cafe.
I'm leaving at this point because....
1.) I'll be able to afford Christmas, my birthday and New Year if I work until the end of next week.
2.) The boss chooses to close the office from Friday 21st until Wednesday 2nd January. For the week in the middle, he doesn't pay us for days other than bank holidays. We all have four days taken from our holiday allowance to stop him losing money during this time. Therefore, I could count this 'forced week off' as my notice period.
3.) I'll get out before I become pathetic, self-pitying and depressed and worse still, unable to realise these things about myself. That is worse than being unemployed.
4.) I won't be able, or particularly want to, go through the dole again. Suddenly finding myself without an income at all will mean I have to step up my efforts to get a job to the maximum. Starting 2013 with a bit of a challenge....can't be bad.
Hmm, I wonder if there are any medical trials starting in January.......
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