wanting to find work in the big smoke..../work woes

[steppen22]

It's getting to the point where I'm thoroughly fed up with my job in local government.

Cons:
- too little pay. I have debts that are getting bigger, not smaller.
- too little totty. The social aspects of my work, since restructuring, are next to zero: it's hard to find someone pretty to flirt with now.
- I'm bored of what I do and I've fucked up more than once since Xmas, because my heart's just not in it anymore.
- The location is dull
- Fed up with the female staff, both senior and junior to me, having so much time off due to illness, childcare, etc. It's something about local government - you can get away with it. So people just leave at 11am because they have sore throats, etc.
-I'm not using my mind at all anymore.

pros:
- I can generally manage my own workload, I haven't got anyone pushing me about.


That's it. That's the only good thing about my job. It's not an enabling position - it's not enabling me to do things I want to (becuase the pay's shit and there's only anyy prospects of, at at best, horizontal repositioning)

So I want a new job. But not here. I'm bored of this place entirely. i want to move to London - but I've no contacts. Hw do I go about getting work in London?

How about you? You like your jobs?

Thanks.
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[Robby]

I work in central London, in central government. Not saying which department, and definitely not saying which policy area. I'd get lynched on here.

The work keeps my mind relatively active if I choose to do some, the prospects are good and promotion is only a case of doing some work on an application when I find a job I want to go for.
The totty is high quality, as is the banter, and I'm making enough to put some in savings.

[Hoffy]

Stick where You are for now steppen , or try to stay withing government / council employ , You will be much more secure than working in the private sector at the moment.
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[chillpill]

lol why am i not suprised you work for the goverment

id stick with it for the moment , its terrible finding a job at the moment

why do you want to go to london so much ?

[hellkat]

In the current climate, I'd say your single Plus Point vastly outweighs your Negative Points, several of which seem rather petty to me.

But if you must: try checking your intraweb (or similar associated organisations)* for jobs where you can transfer, rather than leave that job and start a new one. It might be preferable to move sideways to a new location rather than out to an unknown destination. I spend half my time poking around looking at other jobs.

*e.g. I work in a hospital as a float secretary, so I check the intraweb and the NHS site for jobs that I like the sound of better, or because they are linked to Imperial College, I check there as well and similar other "governmenty" jobs in medicine, science or education: something will happen along eventually.
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