Leaving a job.....
 

Why is it sooooo damn hard?

I have been with my current employer for 2 years now, but I'm now incredibly bored and often find myself on the internet like on this forum which will inevitably get me in trouble sooner or later.

The good things of this job are.....

Prospects are good, could be a director in 4 years.
Experience is good.
Company car.
Just got a 21% pay rise.
Some of the people are OK.
They have served me well and added very good things to my CV.

The bad things are.....

I'm bored beyond belief.
I could get a better company car.
I could get more money.
The boss is expanding quick and employing complete idiots as we are desperate, and they make us all look stupid and drag us all down.
There is no one my own age (everyone 40+, some of the recent new starter have been 60+ we are that desperate) or with even remotely the same interests.

The problem is I just cant get myself together for the fear that the grass is not always greener. The people that come for interviews here are complete retards yet they are doing jobs more senior than me, so the competition at job interviews would be crap.

But in some respect I feel the need to be loyal :( I know that leaving would stich the business up abit and **** a few people off considerably.

I didnt apply for a job with the Coal Authority the other day that is on my door step and I could have done very well in the interview and the role is no different to what i do now.....I have just found another one that is equally perfect, but abit further away, yet I cant bring myself to actually apply, for that same old fear that the grass isnt always as green as it looks once you have swam across the river :(

Such a tough decision and not easy to do.........I really dont know what to do.

Re: Leaving a job.....
 

I'm sort of similar to you, but I have no quarms about telling an employer where to shove it. It wasn't that long ago I took 4 months off work completely. I was bored, so quit, took 4 months off, then found work again when money started to run low.

I think you need to work out why you feel so endebted to the people you work with/for. Afterall, it's business. You're there to work, not to make friends.

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That could be your shortest post ever Baph ha haa

;)

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I think its because they helped my career develope so quickly and provided me with a fair bit of very good experience.

But things have gone down hill recently throughout the company, not just my particular business unit.

Another major problem is they are offering good money to attract new people, but the new people are rubbish. So they are coming in on better money than existing people, and then most existing people (not me) have just been told they arnt getting payrises as we lost a big contract.The atmosphere is just horrible and has been for months now.

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I used to feel like that, so I retired.

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What's your boss like? Talk to them maybe?

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He is a very dry sense of humored bloke, his office is off the main office and he always used to have the door open and you could talk openly to him and have a bit of banter.

Now the door is always shut, Partly because he has employed a bloke who NEVER shuts up (but we have to put up with it), and partly because he is sick of listening to people who are unhappy with the way things are going and try to talk to him about it :(.

He takes everything personally.......He employeed someone from the local authority who was crap and used to doing no work as they worked for the council......So they came here and couldnt cope with the workload and left after 3 days. Its been going down hill from then onwards.

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The words, "rat, ship, sinking, jump" come to mind.

Stretchie, see the "defragging RAID volumes" thread. :)

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:salut:

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Time to leave then. You're not happy and you're not going to get it resolved. Moving jobs is a gamble, yes, but if you stay you're garunteed it'll never improve.