Have you ever regretted taking a job?

[Jessee92]

So I am 2 months into my new role and really struggling. I work as a support worker, I thought this would be the perfect job for me as in my previous roles which were in the retail industry (12 years experience) I loved being around people and helping them but this has become the last thing I want to do now, which isn't ideal as this is one of the main things you need for this role. We are extremely understaffed in my department and because of this my workload has tripled which I think has overwhelmed me a lot. I have reached out to get extra support and training but I feel like it's not helping. I also feel like some of my skills are getting effected and I'm not able to do them as well as I have done. My probation finishes at the end of the year and that is what I want to try and get to but I can feel myself struggling. Today was the first day where all my emotions have come out and had a mini breakdown (Thankfully I work from home so no one to see me crying).

I've had a couple of jobs I didn't get on with and left pretty quickly. I've also been a midwife and left that when I realised that despite loving my training, I didn't love the job. It's ok to admit it's not the right thing for you. 2 months isn't long so personally I'd probably give it a little longer, but if it's too much then you need to do what's right for you.

I've had several jobs I didn't like or get on with and sometimes you need to just leave ( or really look for something else )
Caring roles are hard and it's not for everyone and it must be even harder without any staff.
I hope you can find something else soon op , but it's sad the conditions are so bad.
Sadly , I would imagine many places are the same.

Yeah. I currently work for a certain large CS department, which is honestly the worst place I've ever worked in my life. The training has been non existent, the work is vastly under graded, and so the pay nowhere near reflects the work I do, and the management are absolute cunts, with an unhealthy obsession with hybrid working. I thankfully have another job to go to, so I will be leaving soon, but it's not soon enough!

Yes, all of them. I bitterly resent wasting my life doing things I don’t care about. And I f-ing hate the way you’re defined by your idiotic job. I don’t want a job, I want to be reading or learning Japanese or practising the guitar. But I have bills to pay.

Yes. I transferred within my company and pretty much straight away realised I had made a big mistake. I was miserable at the new site. My old site offered me my old job back within a month and it was so hard not to go back to the familiar but I had to remind myself I left for a reason.
In the end, I left after 6 months to go to a completely new company, 3 months of those 6 were working my notice. I felt really guilty as I felt like I'd messed everyone around but I'm so much happier having left and moved onto something new. life is too short to remain in a job you hate, especially if you have other options.

Yep. I worked in Head office for a retail company. Moved brands (all under the same company, now in administration!!) and absolutely hated it. Used to cry on the train into work every day.
Do not stay in a job you hate. Life's too short.

Yes, my current one!

Yes. Started a new job in January, old boss contacted me in March to ask if I wanted my old job back, and I handed in my notice in April. Have been back in my old job nearly a month and it's much better for me.

But the reasons were more around working hours (4 days in this job, vs 5 in the one I left) and wfh (fulltime at home in this job vs 2 days in office at the other one) which just makes more sense with a toddler. The work itself was probably a bit better at the other job (or I just hadn't got bored of it yet!).

If my old boss hadn't offered me my job back I'd have stuck out that job to get a mat leave out of them then moved on.

Yes realised I’d made a terrible mistake on the first day but doubted myself and thought maybe I was wrong. I also worried that if I didn’t stay in the job for at least 2 years it would damage my Cv. Anyway, it was a toxic place and completely destroyed my confidence. In the end they ended up firing me! Never gave me a reason; told me I was great at my job and had recently given me a great review and pay rise. I so wish I’d just left immediately and told future employers it wasn’t the right fit, don’t let this damage your mental health, get out now,

Yes, realised it was a huge mistake by the end of the first week. Stuck it out until probation ended then left. It's on my CV as a temp assignment. I've stayed in too many jobs that were wrong over my working career.

Yes and I stuck it out when I shouldn't have. I think I was worried I was being a "whining millennial" but in hindsight my reasons were valid.

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Got TUPE'd from one branch of a national charity to another when a contract was retendered.

I'd been on the project from the day it started and was absolutely on the top of my game technically and personally. Was treated as a senior adviser and spent time mentoring colleagues and being a sounding board for their technical queries.

New place was very differently managed. More like a call centre worker then a welfare rights adviser. She took a dislike to me, probably becuase I didn't say yes Ma'am when asked to do stuff. She said I was disruptive and rocked the boat.

She also lied about not having my training record. I know they had it becuase the trainer in the old place is a good friend and she and I spent a day or so licking it into the correct institutional format.

I baled after being set up with something so she could take me down a peg or two.

BAck to the old place but different work in which I'm less happy but only another year until State Pension kicks in.

Yes, twice.
First one I toughed it out for 8 years - manager was a nightmare who would pick favourites every 6 months or so and always had a scapegoat. I should have left after the first year but the money was good and the location was handy for DC's schools.
The 2nd time I took a job share to help out a " friend", who then started not turning up then completely ghosted everyone including our patient. I then basically worked full time for 6 months on part time pay ( the way the " friend" had set the contract / payments ).
After 6 months I extracated myself but the amount of stress and worry was horrendous.

Yes. I was volunteering somewhere and they encouraged me to apply after I'd only been there 5 minutes and I took it as a compliment. The reality was they wanted to change the terms of an externally funded role and so essentially wanted me to fail so they could. I had a short term contract and the Line Manager made my life a misery and they then did change the terms of the role and invited me to reapply. I didn't. The whole place was full of petty politics and they would have taken great delight in telling me I hadn't been successful

Agree with @xyz111 life is too short. Don't waste it in a job that makes you unhappy.

I realised quickly that the boss was having an affair with my colleague.

Awkward as the boss and his wife were pals with my boyfriends parents.

The boss had the cheek to sack me for mistakes she made. We did totally different work so I was obviously not me!

Glad to get away tbh! Life's too short. If you're getting stressed time to move on

Yes. I should have quit way before I did