Looking for work abroad | Only money and lack of skills stand in the way

Three out of five employees in the UK (60%) want to change their job, but are being held back by a lack of finances(46%) and not having the right skills (42%), according to new a poll of 3,000 people by Bing, Microsoft’s search engine.

The research was conducted to examine what Brits really want to be doing in all aspects of their lives, including careers.

Commenting on the findings, Sociologist, Jenni Trent Hughes, said: “Many of us feel our lives are controlled by our work. We often feel that our work is what we do for a living.

“In today’s times of economic austerity, many of us feel uncertain about the future, so I’m not surprised that most people want to feel in control of what they do day-in, day-out. In most of the jobs people identified as their ideal professions, they wanted to determine the how, where, when and why of what they did – or would at least like to be setting the agenda.”…

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