To wonder what would make you think it’s time to leave your job?

[TrainsandDiggers]

Just that really. What would make you know you needed to leave?

Any abusive or bullying behaviour

If I was bored to tears by my job.

Why are you asking?

I have very recently made the desicion to leave my job. It was a hard choice because, although I hate my job, I love the people. We are all friends outside and inside, we are like a family.

I finally decided to leave becuase I don't like the direction my role is taking and I think a lot of others will leave too, meaning my reason to stay would walk out the door.

Winning the lottery.

Boredom.

Being treated like shit.

When you fantasise about strangling your manager

laughing at all the reasons given as all too often these are the conditions that so many people put up with daily in their jobs...

Very easy to say i'd quit if.... but sadly that doesn't keep the rent paid and quitting is often much harder than it looks. So stupid when people say stuff like 'if you don't like it then leave'' as if it is really that simple...I'd love to quit my job, know some close colleagues who feel similar.

I've just found out that someone has been taken on to do the same job as me, but being paid more. I actually have a few other areas of responsibility that they wont have.
I've been told no pay rise for me. I'm really dissapointed and upset. The reasons given were rubbish and I would love to leave but I've been there 6 years, it has the flexibility and I love the place and I'm not sure if I can face looking elsewhere

I gave up care one day after a MDT meeting that just tipped me over the edge. I'd been teetering for a while but when it was basically we know this person isn't getting the care they need here and we know technically you're not equipped or trained to care for them properly but we'll you're managing, so crack on until something happens and then we'll investigate and you'll probably get the blame, oh and the owner agreed because it filled a bed.
That was the final straw. I loved the clients but I hate the thought of people making money and vulnerable people paying the price because they're the ones not getting what they need. Didn't want to be a part of it anymore, felt like I was condoning it.

I had something better to go to

I felt like I'd got all I could out of it. I had loved it but it would have just been the same thing over and over. Plus I was vastly underpaid!

Endless gaslighting from the management and a work load that was terrifying and a substandard wage packet I just had the realisation that this was never, ever going to get better.

Worked on my cv - sent it off to a few agencies on the Friday and two weeks later was offfered 2 jobs and handed my notice in.
My old job had to hire a full timer and another person doing 20 hrs a week to cover my workload.

Thanks for the responses.

I’m asking because on paper, I have a good, well-paid job that I worked hard to get, but in practice, I feel anxious and stressed everyday because of it. I am tempted to jack it in and risk setting up something myself. I know that won’t be easy, but I just wondered what factors have/would make other people quit a good job?

No progression.
Being expected to do work that takes longer than your contracted hours.
Lack of respect and appreciation from higher ups for hard work.

Boredom, lack of progression or having nothing that needed fixing. Can't stand a well operating work place, it's dull!

I would leave my current job if my boss left or if they increased my workload without increasing salary and job title.

The only frustration I have currently is that a more junior colleague who is on a PIP, was brought in earning only 2k less than me. The difference in our workload and performance is staggering, so it does rankle.

Boredom, not wanting to go in, no motivation, being isolated at work

If trust is broken, if you question their ethics, if you wake up with a dread feeling about work, if you can't use your abilities, if you feel forced to cover up who you are ( e g homophobia), if there is unresolved bullying, if the pay isn't fair If the impact on family life wasn't balanced ....

Knowing for sure (not merely hoping/suspecting) that I could get another decent job. Otherwise it can be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Well I have just left my job so I can give you my non-hypothetical reasons:

Expensive and unreliable commute
Having to be in the office when I could do the job perfectly well from home
A boss who was presenteeist
The organisation was very small and quite badly run and the fiefdom of a board director who was a pain the proverbial
My son is doing his GCSEs this year and I wanted to be around to make sure he does at least some revision
I have enough savings to last until Christmas with no work but I do have some freelance work so can make them last longer before I have to get a "proper" job
A supportive husband who didn't mind me giving up work
No mortgage

Previous job I left because the hours weren't feaseable.
Started at 7am, which would mean I would have to get the kids (9 months and 6 years) out of bed and drive them to my mum's house, 9 miles away. She would then get them ready and feed them and take the eldest to school, half a mile from my house. She would then drive back to her house with the baby for me to collect him at 2pm and head back to the school for 3pm.
6yo would do 18 miles two days a week. 9 month old would do 36.

Boredom, no challenge. I'm working my notice now and due to start a new job in March.

When I spent Sunbay evening seriously considering throwing myself down the stairs so I could go to hospital and be signed off with an injury.

Office politics getting in the way of work getting done productively on a regular basis, going round and round in circles at meetings between departments etc.

I would also leave if the workforce changed dramatically en masse and I couldn't get along with them.