Advice on how to quit?

Do you have the part time job for the benefit of you or your boss? Let your boss know your situation, that you'd like to stay on at one shift a week, but more than that is too much. If they can't do that, then you give two weeks notice and move on.

Life first, work second. Life first, work second. And you got it right, I'm young, single, no kids. Time to get out there and enjoy life, rather than working straight through it.

Think I got it..... Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it!

YOU GO, GIRL!!!

55 hr work weeks???????????? IMO, that's FULL time... if you're working that much, you should be getting full time benefits... not getting screwed by "part time" status....

I always remember advice mys sister gave me whenever I need a "personal" day off from work and feel guilty about it:

I work to live NOT live to work.

Good Luck.

My husband just went theru this. He left the military a year ago and took a position in the production field, which if anyone knows this field it's long hard hours. He was working 110+ hours a week with his travel time included - these hours after they moved him to a plant 2 hours away and put him on night shift plus the plant worked 13 days straight... Well, I couldn't do the time and neither could our children, so I laid the law down after 3 weeks and told him he had to find another job period end fo discussion. After 3 weeks of looking and interviewing he found another job - we took a bit of a pay deduction but I now for the first time in our marriage have a husband who works normal hours - 8-5 and no weekends. He hated to give notice - dreaded it, felt like he was betraying them or something - because this was after all his first "civialian" job - but with my encouragement he did it and he is soooo happy he did. He says now he loves his job and he used to think he would dread waking each day and going to his old job. he now has time for working out - something he totally neglected for a year and is in the process of getting back in shape and feels good about the change.

You don't owe you company anything, and if they want you to stick around they'll work with you. This being your first job out of college you may feel loyalty to the company but I once read somewhere that this generation will change jobs 5-7+ times before they find a company that they will retire with... a huge change from previous generations when the first job they got was their last. Look at it as practice for future moving up the ladder to a better and more rewarding positon.

Happy training.

Cathleen

Edited by houston-tri-mamma 2005-07-17 8:40 AM

I work as a machine shop supervisor. I want the poeple whho work for me to be straight forward and honest. I have a guy who has graduated with his masters and it looking for a new job. All I ask of him is to keep me informed.

Secondly. 55 hours a week is not part time. It is way over full time. I work 50 a week - no weekends. I could run the shop on Saturday but I have told the management that I feel we need the weekend to recoup after the hard week. We are one of the most productive shops the company has. If you are not getting benefits you are being ripped off. It sounds like it is time to move on period. just my opinion.

I can understand feeling like you're letting the company down or being disloyal by renegotiating your schedule or quitting, but think of it this way: if you weren't working out for them, do you really think they'd think twice about changing your schedule or firing you outright? It's nothing personal, just business.

Mike