One in ten British employees plan to give up their job this month – and TOMORROW is the day they may hand of their notices

One in ten British workers plan to quit their job this month with most of them handing in their notice tomorrow.

A quarter of Brits claim their job makes them unhappy while as many as 41 per cent say they want a career overhaul this year, a new survey has shown.

Over a third of those who said they wanted to quit their job this month (37 per cent) said they wanted to tell their boss they’d had enough on their first day back, January 5.

Instead of working for others, more than a quarter (26 per cent) want to start their own business this year too, while 24 per cent want to re-train into another field.

In this vain, 16 per cent of those polled were planning to go back to university or college to learn something new, but 8 per cent of people instead opted for the idea of a sabbatical for a career break.

 Half of all working Brits feel as if they were forced down a career path which they did not choose themselves, the nationwide study shows.

A quarter of them said that their parents had been the ones pulling the strings in their choice of career, enforcing a set of ideas about what they wanted them to do.

However, on the flip side, 85 per cent of parents say they will encourage their children to follow their dreams rather than take a job they aren’t interested in.

One in ten Brits plan to quit their job this month, with most of them planning to hand in their notice to bosses tomorrow on January 5

Depression has hit 15 per cent of Brits in work who have found themselves unhappy with their positions in their job

More than half of them (57 per cent) claim they would be more open to their children’s career choices than their own parents were to theirs.

Two thirds (66 per cent) go a step further and think that the current UK exam system pushes kids to pick subject choices too early, limiting future study and career options, and 62 per cent of their teenage children think the same.

Their analyses seems to track, as nearly half (43 per cent) of those in work now insist that they would have chosen a more creative job if they had been given the chance again.

Resentment about the idea of being shoehorned into a career that was not their idea has built up in one inf five of those polled, with a quarter (26 per cent) being frustrated about where they’ve ended up.

Depression has settled in for 15 per cent of British working people about their current positions at work.

More than half of all workers in Britain (54 per cent) say that they are currently not working on in their dream career , with jealousy of others working in their dream position seizing upon 18 per cent of them. 

The survey of more than 3,500 Brits, was commissioned by international schools group ACS.

Martin Hall, Head of School at ACS Hillingdon, said: ‘The research shows that the nation’s workers feel like they have been short-changed when it comes to their careers, and the next generation fears the current system will send them the same way.

Parents say they would support their child to follow their interests in their work, but many in work now say they felt their parents pushed them into a career they didn’t want

‘What’s concerning is that the same system that created these regrets is still in place. Our research shows 66 per cent of parents believe the English exam system forces children to narrow their subject choices too early – at 14 and 16 – often before they understand what opportunities exist.

‘Parents experiencing career regret shouldn’t assume the only path is the one they took.

‘They should ask schools: Are you preparing my child to be ready for an unpredictable future, or forcing them to be “single subject specialists?” That’s the question that matters.’

One in six (17 per cent) workers were told that dream careers like being a professional footballer were out of reach, while 14 per cent were told it was impossible to be a singer, according to research from ACS International Schools.

Other careers that supposedly were impossible include being an actor (12 per cent), an artist (10 per cent), a doctor (nine per cent) and a pilot (nine per cent), according to career advisors,.