You have to have that date in mind and consistently re-evaluate the date every month. There are enough warning signs out there (like all those co-workers leaving after four months) that you should be able to gauge where the work is going.

It’s OK to want to do wonderful work, but companies are in business to meet their business goals (including costs) and not interested in your goals. So you have to take this unemotional, hard-nosed look at what is happening on your job.

When the time of finding a job matches up with how long you expect the job to last, you need to start looking for another position.

This is not to bash this really crappy circumstance here; this happens all the time. The lesson is to not put up with it in the future.

How long will your position last?

I also really want to hear how the boss reacted when you quit!

I’m the administrator of 3 different programs and I’m (unofficially) being trained to take over another major program because they’re anticipating the person currently doing it getting a job elsewhere (lucky girl). It’s hard though because the work ethic I was taught doesn’t really allow me to be lazy or bad at my job – I’m always striving to do my best. But it’s really hard when I collect the same paycheck as the other people I work with but do 4 times as much work.

It seems like – when you’re good at your job, you aren’t rewarded for it with praise or benefits, you’re rewarded with more work being lumped on you. Then, your fellow coworkers (or mine, in this situation) purposefully do everything half-assed, poorly, or take forever to do it so that they don’t ever get extra assignments or tasks and they never get called out for it! Sorry – turned into a vent for my own crappy job, lmao!