Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.
I work as a European grants manager. My position, although probably OK for the next couple of years, doesn’t have a future in post-Brexit Britain. To add to this, I don’t particularly enjoy the job and it isn’t a career I would have chosen. I did an arts degree and took temping work in the public sector to pay the bills alongside the unpaid or poorly paid work I was doing for a small theatre company.
Nearly 10 years later, I feel stuck in this line of work but my field is drying up fast and will probably end as our ties with the EU are severed. Along the way, I have had experience in project management, financial planning, communication, training, events and marketing, but transferable skills seem to be a thing of the past and the creative sector I long to work in seems to be a tightly guarded door.
Taking a pay cut isn’t viable with my current mortgage payments and although I have looked into getting some career coaching, the costs are out of my reach and the results seem to be hit and miss.
Do you need advice on a work issue? For Jeremy’s and readers’ help, send a brief email to dear.jeremy@theguardian.com. Please note that he is unable to answer questions of a legal nature or to reply personally.
