This is my first blog post as a blogger. I thought I would start off my blog by being personal, so you guys can get to know me. So, I left my previous job as a Sales & Marketing Executive on December 21st 2016 (which I had started back in March). I left with no new job to go to. Why, you may ask? I stopped enjoying it, I was waking up every morning dreading knowing that I had to go back to that place.
Lets be honest with ourselves, we have all been in this situation at least once in our lives (unless you’ve had the privilege not to, and are loaded with money) where you go into a new job expecting it to be better than your previous job… but then it turns out to be as equally as bad as the previous. Then you regret ever trying to “adventure” into a new career. You start to doubt yourself as well as others because of the poor experience you have had.
I don’t necessarily regret leaving my old job, because it made me unhappy everyday and I’ve always put my happiness first before an income. You might think I’m crazy or dumb but I don’t see the point in going to a job every day knowing you’re not putting your 100% effort in. Its your time and the companies time that you are wasting. I’m also only twenty-one so I personally think I have a lot of time to work out what I want to do with my life and career wise.
I do regret leaving my old job and not having a new job to turn to. It must have been the Christmas vibes (that’s what I blame anyway) that encouraged me to leave without a backup. I was in the mind frame of “New Year, New Start… blah blah blah.” I assumed that I would be fine – that I would easily and quickly find a new job in the new year. Oh how I was wrong. I applied for job, after job, after job yet no luck in finding the “right” job. I either wasn’t qualified enough, wasn’t close enough or the jobs ended up to be commission based only.
I wouldn’t say I’m too fussy in finding a new job, I just take every single detail on board when I go to interviews now (Okay, fine… I’m a little fussy!) But seriously, my next job I want to be happy in, I want to be able to work myself up from the bottom, I want to be proud of my job. That’s why I now take on board details about jobs; parking, commute, how many members of staff there are, how long the company has been around for… etc. etc.
So to answer your question, yes I am still unemployed, but I am not giving up hope! I will keep applying for jobs and putting myself out there until I find the “ideal” job for me.
I guess only time will tell.
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