This week my Word of the Week is: Turning! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

This week started off quite stressful but there has been a lot of turning points and I am feeling quite positive now. I hate to say it and it sounds cliche but it's been one of those weeks where everything seemed to have happened for a reason!

Stu has been really disheartened at work lately, putting it bluntly he hates his job now and it is causing him so much stress. There are unrealistic targets, people walking out and some being laid off last week for not selling enough. When Stu started his current job there was no selling but over the last year the company have pushed it more and more with targets to hit and a lot of pressure. It's getting ridiculous now. Just a couple of weeks ago Stu had a telling off because he wasn't pushing products enough. The call in question was a woman who was only phoning to change her contract as she was fleeing domestic violence. There is a time and a place to try and sell a new phone and that wasn't it!! Someone rang to downgrade their phone contract because they had lost their job and needed a cheaper option and Stu was made to try and sell broadband to the caller. Stupid!! Stu started looking for a new job because the targets have just been upped again and everyone has been warned if they are not met they could face getting the sack so he's jumping ship before he's pushed!

They always say that it's easier to find a job while you already have a job and it seems to be true. At the moment he can be picky, he's already turned down a job as they could only offer 25 hours a week despite them advertising it as being full time but he has another interview next week and this one seems perfect with no selling, same hours, same money but less travelling.

With Stu's job he gets bonuses, those bonuses don't go onto his monthly wage but are in point form and he can convert those points to gift cards or vouchers for online retailers. Usually we save them up for Christmas and we checked his points during the week realising that he had £831 saved. Usually he saves about £500 by December so it just goes to prove how much he has been selling while doing his normal job. Eek! The catch is that if he leaves the job he will lose access to the points which to me seems wrong so we have been spending them. It seems a bit frivolous but our thinking is they could be gone in a month so why not. We have been sensible and converted half to supermarket vouchers to use for the weekly food shop or save until Christmas and we bought Ellie a fancy dressing table for her birthday, Becky the pool cue that she wanted which I wasn't going to buy as it was a bit over what I had budgeted but thought we might as well. 

We are now looking at buying a Freeview box that records as we have seen the Sky TV bill creeping up and up and to be honest we can always do with saving a bit of money. It gave us a kick up the bum to do something. I hardly watch the Sky channels, just the free to air one's like BBC and ITV. The boxes cost a couple of hundred pounds but we've worked out that after a few months of not paying for Sky TV we will be saving money. This has came at the right time too as our contract ends in August.

This week has been full of turning points: a shift in Stu’s job situation, a change in his mindset about work, turning saved points into practical spending and maybe a change from Sky TV to Freeview. It feels like things are turning around even after a worrying start to my week! 

How has your week been? I hope you have had a good one! I am of course linking up with Anne who blogs at Raisie Bay for her Word of the Week linky!