How do you know when it is time to quit your job

AfloydRN, BSN, RN · Jan 13, 2007

When you have to take a sleeping pill only on nights before you have to work. When you try to come up w/ some crazy reason to call in the night before. When you realize how great it will feel to actually give your 2 weeks notice.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Jan 13, 2007

When do you know if it is time to leave?????

Each and every one of us has different boiling points. Here are a few indicators that should tell me when it is time to quit my job:

1. If I dread coming to work every shift...

2. If I feel burned out...

3. If I start crying over something that usually does not evoke tears...

4. If the workplace stress manifests itself in life-threatening physical symptoms such as chest pains, etc.

caliotter3 · Jan 13, 2007

When you are harassed, intimidated, stalked, assaulted, etc. by a client and your employer tells you that you can pay for an escort out of your own pocket and that you can't get a restraining order, and refuses to treat you with basic human respect.

DeLana_RN, BSN, RN · Jan 13, 2007

I think you already know. I know I did in each of the jobs I finally quit, but - like many people - I made excuses for the things that I didn't like and/or were bad. Humans, and especially women, just don't like change and often put up with horrible/toxic conditions far longer than they should.

Five years is a long time and will impress any interviewer; don't be afraid to look around, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Good luck!

DeLana :)

P.S. Five years in a more or less toxic environment have led me to the job that I think I'm meant to have. Without this experience, I probably wouldn't have gotten it. And yes, I stayed too long, but I had my reasons and wouldn't stay this long in such an environment again. You learn, sometimes the hard way.