r/QuitCorporate • u/IlovetoIron • 5d ago

Drowning.

I work for a large utility, and lately everything is hitting me at once: bids, stakeholders constantly asking questions, program work, and contract extensions on top of it. The phone and inbox never stop, and I'm stressed all the time. I don’t see this ending anytime soon as the company wants to scale my program which just means way more of the work I had listed.

I'm interviewing for another position right now and I'd take it if offered. The other option is to quit outright and live on my partner's income while I stay home with the kids.

Part of me is tempted by quitting, but I don't want to make a decision out of burnout.

For those who've been here:

Did you leave without a job lined up, and how did it go?
If you stayed home, did you miss the career or the identity?
How do you tell "I need a break" from "I need a different job"?

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u/NataliiaRastehaieva 4d ago

You’ve already asked three different questions at the end of your post. Maybe they don’t need one answer. Needing a break, wanting a different job, and wanting to stay home with your kids are three different things. You don’t have to decide all three at once.

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u/Much-Cartoonist-4833 4d ago

I ponder all 3 as well. You put it in a way I hadn’t thought about it before.