I agree with the lesson you learned- carry on! Hope you’re not beating yourself up over this. Live and learn, and try to hang in there longer next time!

I don’t entirely hate my job (although sometimes I really do), but I know for certain I do not want to stay in this industry. I’m in media and it just doesn’t align with my personal goals and personality. I feel barely motivated to perform and I just merely make do with my tasks.

I have a clear idea where I want to move on to next. But I don’t have a job set in stone for me. So I don’t know whether I should leave or not.

Now it becomes a little more complicated with my binding contract. I have to serve a notice if I choose to quit. And if I quit during my 1st 3 months probation period, I only need to serve a 1 month notice period. However, if I am confirmed, I will need to serve 2 months notice if I decide to leave.

So now I’m torn between tendering during my probation period even though I haven’t found a new job. Or stick on and get stuck having to serve 2 months to ensure my future plans have been set in place.

What would you advice me to do? For now I will take your advice to stick to my job since I still have 2 more months during my probation to go and to consider my depart.

After working in sales and finance for a while, I decided to move from my home state to live with my at-the-time girlfriend and start a new life with here in South Texas. That decision prove to be the worst I have made so; not only did the relationship not work out well, but professionally it has been a disaster as I could not land a job with the insurance company I was targeting, or any company for that matter.

I ended up having to accept a warehouse manual job with one of the largest beverage companies in the world to manually build order. No need to say that working in a warehouse environment is physically challenging, especially for a guy who has never done this kind of work in his entire life, but I decided to take the challenge because I never back down on anything. This page of my life reminds me of one of my best movies, The Company Man, with Ben Affleck. I love the movie because I can relate to the anguish Bobby Walker went through after losing his highly-paid job.

Anyways, after three months, an accident at work that put me one week out, several muscle strains, open cuts, bruises, long 12 hours night shifts lifting 30 to 40 pounds regularly, and time spent at the hospital, I decided that It was time to leave because of the physical toll it was taking on me.

The only thing that weighed in the balance was the amazing benefits that the company offers – health, dental, life insurances, 401K… all at not cost to the employee. Despite all of that, I decided however to leave not only because of the physical toll but also because I felt like I was “dumbing” myself. Now I am dealing with the job search again, but I believe it was the right thing to do.

I completely agree with this. Six months ago I was ready to quit my job. Yesterday I was still ready to quit my job. But I’m not stupid. I know that I can’t afford to not have a job. I also have great benefits. But the daily grind of what I do has gotten to me. Responsibilities are added on without old ones being removed. Expectations are being raised without the resources to meet the goals being available. I moved and now work remotely, so there’s an added pressure to perform higher than everyone else so that I’m not seen as taking advantage of this.

I’ve started applying for other jobs that align with my personal goals, but that is only a glimmer of a possibility until I actually get a job offer in my hands. I’m choosing to stay employed because I know I could just as easily not even have this job. I’ve started doing outside work and picking up freelance gigs to grow my savings so that if it does come down to it, I can quit and survive long enough to pick up something new.