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Feel guilty at leaving...help!
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Right, this could take some time so please bear with me! Basically about 3 months ago i started working as a carer because eventually i want to be a probation officer and people told me that this would be good experience. When i went for my interview i told them that being a carer was something i had always wanted to do just to ensure i got the job. Thing is i have recently been going through the application process to be a prison officer as this is clearly better experience to have to be a probation officer plus it is something i actually want to do! Last week i passed the final stage and now am just waiting to be assinged to a prison (however this could take between 2 and 18 months.) I cannot face the thought of staying in my current job for a possible 18 months and therefore i want to quit and do something temporary like waitressing. I really do not enjoy my current job and the thought of spending even just another week there makes me want to quit even with no other job to go to.
My problem is that because i work for a individual and not in a care home i feel really guilty at leaving. My clients parents are always saying how they think the carers they have for their child now are brilliant and will be here for years and that it is so hard to keep people and for them to sustain a relationsip with their child, so for me to turn round and say i hate my job and im leaving (especially after saying at interview this is virtually a lifetime ambition) makes me feel awful.
So what do you think do i tell the truth for why i want to leave or do i make something up along the lines of im moving house and the drive will be far too long and impractical and therefore i am being forced to find something more local?? (i think this could work as i have already mentioned that me and my fiance are looking to move in together soon)
PLEASE give me your opinions/ideas because i CANNOT keep working there and yet at the same time cant bring myself to quit!!! HELP!!!!:crazyeyes :nervous:
My problem is that because i work for a individual and not in a care home i feel really guilty at leaving. My clients parents are always saying how they think the carers they have for their child now are brilliant and will be here for years and that it is so hard to keep people and for them to sustain a relationsip with their child, so for me to turn round and say i hate my job and im leaving (especially after saying at interview this is virtually a lifetime ambition) makes me feel awful.
So what do you think do i tell the truth for why i want to leave or do i make something up along the lines of im moving house and the drive will be far too long and impractical and therefore i am being forced to find something more local?? (i think this could work as i have already mentioned that me and my fiance are looking to move in together soon)
PLEASE give me your opinions/ideas because i CANNOT keep working there and yet at the same time cant bring myself to quit!!! HELP!!!!:crazyeyes :nervous:
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The skip down the road and dont look back.
Whatever happens life goes on and people will manage without you.
But remeber to put yourself first!
:thumb:
Been looking for other jobs..........i forgot how annoying job hunting is!!