leaving hospitality

[car10002]

hi everyone

will first give a update to what am doing and have done to slowly head in direction of getting out hospitality.

some of you may or may not know about axiom compliance learning, thats a training centre that does test and tag and 3 phase test and tag and plug and socket course (except qld) and they do restricted electrical licenses for non electrical trades that need to do electrical work for their trade and they do fire equipment testing as well.

from axiom compliance learning have enrolled in the plug and socket course and doing it to be able to replace plugs and sockets on cords for people and hoping to find a course to attach cords to appliances and devices that didnt originally have a cord.

also enrolled in the domestic smoke detector testing course to be able to do that for people.

yet to enroll in 3 phase test and tag and the whs side of the normal test and tag.

also doing the bsbesb402 from inscope training and about to do the bsbesb403 through staysafe training to cover the business side.

even though itll only be a side hustle/part time am still going to have to have some training.


second thing is what are the clues that it may be time to get out of hospitality and how would you hang on a little longer (not going to make 20 years wether place is sold by then or not).

most of you may or may not know that the work place is for sale and while it is sad have however accepted that its time for the owner to do it and some of us to try other things.

The hospitality industry is going downhill and it’s not same now and probably won’t be and you dont get much of a life as you're working every weekend and don’t get a lot of time to do stuff or have annual leave and you can’t plan ahead as you never know if you’ll get called in or taken away from your things and been doing it 14 years as you know.

And want to get out and into something that has less weekends if at all and more of a life and scheduled days and no concern of being taken away on your days off especially if you just don't feel like coming in and being able to plan ahead.

Do you think the cafe ever sell or is it up to you to give notice before your 20 years is up, been wanting to get out and into something with uninterrupted lunch breaks and no concern of being called in or taken away on days off especially if you have plans or just don't feel like going in and being able to plan ahead as am tired of living like that.

Can understand why people left and caused the shortage and think it’s a bit of everything.

Some reasons am able to think of is

1. people had to try other things to get money while food industry was closed or could only do take away and realised they can earn the same money without working split shifts and long hours and weekends (at least not every weekend) for similar money and have a better quality of life.

2. hospitality had the extra requirements for a bit and had to enforce them and people just got tired and couldn’t cope and had enough.

3. Workers got abused because they did their job of making sure masks and sign in and vaccinations happened.

4. risk of getting coronavirus.

5. People like me that did over 10 years used the lockdown as a chance to get out.

6. People approaching retirement age may have decided to retire earlier amd didn’t see point of going back for 2 more years before they were able to get age pension.

7. May be bit of everything.


It’d be nice to be in something that works closer to normal business hours And looking forward to that day where am in a industry that am not doing every weekend and being able to plan ahead and no concern of being called in or interrupted and wonder if that day will ever come and how you make it come.

The local special event that happens every 2 years that’s happening this year could be last one in the food side before it happens again in 2 years if am still doing it.

Feeling that it is time and trying to make do until place sells possibly sooner depending how long it takes.

everyone is different to what they experience to know it’s time but you’ll know when it’s time.

How come younger generations quit twice as often as older generations did.

Would have done it 3 years ago if it wasn’t for everyone there.

is it the business that counts or the owner that counts as to how long you should try and stay on a job, for example is it ok to leave soon as handover happens as you worked at place for 14 years so far or should you try and stay with new people for a certain time even though you did it a long time.

also most of you know that you can work part time on a pension and can earn so much but income must be reported, when having your own part time business is there additional problems reporting or is it just the same where you must report income each fortnight like when you work for someone.

apologies for long post and questions of if most has been asked before, just trying to get stuff together as place could sell at anytime and dont plan to stay when it sells possibly sooner depending on how long it takes

[car10002]

hi again



how do you hang on longer when you just want to get out and move onto other things while you can still work.



plan to be handyman which will include electrical test and tag and minor repairs to small appliances and handyman tasks after shop sells or a couple more years whichever is first.



started planning and doing everything needed now no matter how small at a time because probably wont be staying on after sale if owners want to keep staff or be doing hospitality in a couple years whichever is first and it makes sense to do as much as you can now no matter how big or small.



and also probably wont last another 5 years doing hospitality.



what are other clues other than what we spoke about that it may be time to move on from the hospitality job to a more interesting thing such as handyman and what can you do to try and hang on a bit longer out of loyalty and because of it currently being your only option for money when you just want to move on but know you cant just yet

because things happen or doesnt go how you expect (one example is the grandparents hot water service blew a fuse and their house still has the rewirable fuse and had a plug in circuit breaker of same rating that plugs in where old fuse holder goes and they wanted to keep the old fuse) and every time things happen or dont go how you expect it reminds you how much you just want to get out the hospitality industry and you know you cant just yet and you always keep telling yourself that it wont be much longer and to just hang in there. what would be able to be done to try and hang on for now. cant really put the word out there at moment for the services because current job takes half your time and grandparents are getting old and doing more for them and theres not enough time left and any time left is valuable