So I was recently offered a "promotion" at work. I get bumped up from assistant director to director. I work in a college athletic department, non-cosching role.
The salary increase could be best described as negligible if even that much. The actual salary is several thousand dollars more, but I lose the school provided housing, and that covered rent, utilities, internet, and cable TV which I wasn't paying a single cent for. In reality, if I don't find somewhere pretty cheap to live, rather that's on my own or splitting with some roommates, I'm honestly going to be worse off financially with the "promotion," and I'm not exactly well off financially now as it is before the promotion kicks in.
My department will be getting completely overhauled because higher ups are demanding it. There is zero budging on this as well. My job will be very significantly different than what the previous person had in the same position.
I lose my assistant. The only help I'll get now is from student employees.
Marketing and public relations is being removed from my duties, which are two of the things I liked the most about my job, and are being given to a person who would do all the marketing and public relations work.
Meanwhile I am now responsible for working every home game, which now will mean significantly more night and weekend hours for me. From January 1 to the end of April, I will only have TWO weekends where I won't have at least one home game to work, so for all intents and purposes, I will be working for 6-7 days a week for nearly an entire four month stretch on top of spending 3/4 of September, October, and November working 6 days a week.
And I had been looking to get out this summer because I was getting burnt out from the amount of night and weekend hours I was having to work.
So now all the mentally challenging work I enjoyed is gone and being replaced with monotonous, unchallenging work that has much more infuriating headaches to deal with than the office work.
My current, pre-"promotion" position is the assistant position getting eliminated, so if I turn down the promotion then I am without a job.
Frankly, once this all goes into effect, I don't envision a single scenario where I don't wake up every morning facing the prospect of hating a large chunk of my waking life that is my job.
Am I not well within reason to quit?
The salary increase could be best described as negligible if even that much. The actual salary is several thousand dollars more, but I lose the school provided housing, and that covered rent, utilities, internet, and cable TV which I wasn't paying a single cent for. In reality, if I don't find somewhere pretty cheap to live, rather that's on my own or splitting with some roommates, I'm honestly going to be worse off financially with the "promotion," and I'm not exactly well off financially now as it is before the promotion kicks in.
My department will be getting completely overhauled because higher ups are demanding it. There is zero budging on this as well. My job will be very significantly different than what the previous person had in the same position.
I lose my assistant. The only help I'll get now is from student employees.
Marketing and public relations is being removed from my duties, which are two of the things I liked the most about my job, and are being given to a person who would do all the marketing and public relations work.
Meanwhile I am now responsible for working every home game, which now will mean significantly more night and weekend hours for me. From January 1 to the end of April, I will only have TWO weekends where I won't have at least one home game to work, so for all intents and purposes, I will be working for 6-7 days a week for nearly an entire four month stretch on top of spending 3/4 of September, October, and November working 6 days a week.
And I had been looking to get out this summer because I was getting burnt out from the amount of night and weekend hours I was having to work.
So now all the mentally challenging work I enjoyed is gone and being replaced with monotonous, unchallenging work that has much more infuriating headaches to deal with than the office work.
My current, pre-"promotion" position is the assistant position getting eliminated, so if I turn down the promotion then I am without a job.
Frankly, once this all goes into effect, I don't envision a single scenario where I don't wake up every morning facing the prospect of hating a large chunk of my waking life that is my job.
Am I not well within reason to quit?
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