Would You Give Up Your Permanent Job To Go Temping?
The thought of giving up your permanent position, in order to go temping is one that may seem a little silly. After all, you have a permanent contract, stability and the ability to progress through a company or organisation until you reach where your career takes you. That is sensible and stable isn’t it?
Well sometimes life isn’t about being stable and sensible, but life is about pushing boundaries and just expanding your horizons a little, so temping can actually offer you a good career path, even though you don’t have a permanent position.
Temping usually offers good money, so if you are a receptionist on a permanent contract, then you would potentially earn more working as a temp, so it can make financial sense as well.
Temping can also allow you space to try out different types of companies and organisation, from the public sector to not for profit companies and also the private sector. If you are interested in seeing whether the grass is actually greener on the other side, then this is an ideal way to do it and if you are good and prove your worth, then you could be invited to apply for a permanent position.
So all in all, temping is definitely worth considering and a chat with any recruitment agency will bear this out. And if those people who want stability, no change and the same work day in and day out, pour scorn on your ambitions or say that you have given up a perfectly good job with little hope of job security, there is no need to respond. They are probably just jealous that you have the guts to try out something new, adventurous and to go beyond what is comfortable in the hope of finding a more fulfilling career.
