thanks Natalia! I am planning on taking creative writing courses next semester, hopefully meeting a good instructor and also writers that I can learn from. My decision to quit this job has more to do with my lack of challenge in it. Karla was telling me that the people who work in her department (Institute of Education) get a starting salary, as the lowliest of lows, 2000 pounds higher than me!!!!! I'm just a photocopier/spreadsheet creator. I do jack shit all day. I wake up and promise to myself that I'll use my spare time to write, but I can't create when I'm surrounded by such a horribly boring scenario, when nothing is happening in my life, when I'm not meeting people. It's reached a point where the gym is propping me up and keeping me from walking out of the building at 2 in the afternoon because I'm so unhappy.
My contract runs out at the end of this month (but they want to extend it) My boss had promised that by this stage I would be doing more exciting work, in a room with his other researchers, but he hasn't stuck to his promise. Plus, the secretary at my work irritates me like no other human being has ever managed... and I just seriously think I can get a better job than this. The reason why I want to quit is that I want to go to Brazil for a good month and a half - get enough time to see my friends in Brazil (who I haven't seen in two years), my family... also help my mom with her work. THen I'll come back refreshed, get temp work while I look. Just the fact that I'll be in another office with other people, will be ok for me. I don't mind doing Admin Work for now, while I research where to take my writing...
This one lecturer who was away from our department because of maternity leave came to visit us recently. She looked at me and said: "Oliver, are you still here???" I could tell she knew I should be in a better job.
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My contract runs out at the end of this month (but they want to extend it) My boss had promised that by this stage I would be doing more exciting work, in a room with his other researchers, but he hasn't stuck to his promise. Plus, the secretary at my work irritates me like no other human being has ever managed... and I just seriously think I can get a better job than this. The reason why I want to quit is that I want to go to Brazil for a good month and a half - get enough time to see my friends in Brazil (who I haven't seen in two years), my family... also help my mom with her work. THen I'll come back refreshed, get temp work while I look. Just the fact that I'll be in another office with other people, will be ok for me. I don't mind doing Admin Work for now, while I research where to take my writing...
This one lecturer who was away from our department because of maternity leave came to visit us recently. She looked at me and said: "Oliver, are you still here???" I could tell she knew I should be in a better job.