Bored? Burnt out?

[oliverson]

No it's not the post-holiday blues, I've felt like this for a while now.

Despite everything on paper looking very nice (big rate, long contract duration, regular working from home, nice people, laid back office, no stress), I am just completely and utterly fed up with contracting. Yes I know I'm in a privileged position and most people would love to have the opportunities that I have but I can't help it. I'm actually beginning to resent what I do for a living.

[TheDandy]

No it's not the post-holiday blues, I've felt like this for a while now.

Despite everything on paper looking very nice (big rate, long contract duration, regular working from home, nice people, laid back office, no stress), I am just completely and utterly fed up with contracting. Yes I know I'm in a privileged position and most people would love to have the opportunities that I have but I can't help it. I'm actually beginning to resent what I do for a living.

All that glitters......

[GlenW]

DILLIGAF

[stek]

All that glisters......

FTFY...

[Gaz_M]

No it's not the post-holiday blues, I've felt like this for a while now.

Despite everything on paper looking very nice (big rate, long contract duration, regular working from home, nice people, laid back office, no stress), I am just completely and utterly fed up with contracting. Yes I know I'm in a privileged position and most people would love to have the opportunities that I have but I can't help it. I'm actually beginning to resent what I do for a living.

Couldn't put it better myself - exactly how I feel.

However, I'm planning to make the best of the unique opportunity offered to me though and start to work 6-8 months per annum. There aren't many positions out there that allows this freedom so I aim to exploit it.

If I didn't have that opportunity I really don't think I could face this job full-time.

[TheDandy]

FTFY...

The 'glitters' version of this phrase is so long established as to be perfectly acceptable - especially as 'glisters' and 'glitters' mean the same thing. Only the most pedantic insist that 'all that glisters is not gold' is correct and that 'all that glitters is not gold', being a misquotation, however cobweb-laden, should be shunned. John Dryden was quite happy to use 'glitters' as long ago as 1687, in his poem The Hind and the Panther:

For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

FTFY

[stek]

The 'glitters' version of this phrase is so long established as to be perfectly acceptable - especially as 'glisters' and 'glitters' mean the same thing. Only the most pedantic insist that 'all that glisters is not gold' is correct and that 'all that glitters is not gold', being a misquotation, however cobweb-laden, should be shunned. John Dryden was quite happy to use 'glitters' as long ago as 1687, in his poem The Hind and the Panther:

For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

FTFY

I'm not a kiddie-fiddler! How dare thee!

[DimPrawn]

Every contractor worth his salt has an escape plan, a plan b.

Contracting is just a quick way to fund a better future.

MTFU.

[vetran]

Contracting is just a quick way to fund a better future for the ex.

MTFU.

FTFY

[greenlake]

No it's not the post-holiday blues, I've felt like this for a while now.

Despite everything on paper looking very nice (big rate, long contract duration, regular working from home, nice people, laid back office, no stress), I am just completely and utterly fed up with contracting. Yes I know I'm in a privileged position and most people would love to have the opportunities that I have but I can't help it. I'm actually beginning to resent what I do for a living.

Financial security was, and always has been, my goal since I started working. Whatever you define financial security to be should also be your goal.

Are you financially secure yet? If so, pack it all in and do whatever makes you happy. If not, suck it up and continue to bank as much coin as you can, while you still can.

Make hay while the sun shines....