i’m 16 years old working in a retirement community, i’ve been working here 7 months and it’s gotten to be way too much. we’re constantly understaffed and overworked. we don’t have a human reasources person to go to, our schedule and pay gets messed up often, we barely have any management, and many coworkers make me uncomfortable and sometimes even afraid. this is just some of the issues we have.
normally with any job i would quit if it doesn’t work out for me. over my time working here though, i’ve gotten to know all the residents personally. i know their grandchildrens names, what they did before retirement, and their likes and dislikes. down to the meal served, i would know to hold the gravy for this residents and extra for the other. they don’t deserve to be paying thousands for poor food service, but i need to quit. i can’t take this anymore. i don’t owe this job anything but the residents deserve better than this place.
if anyone has any advice on getting over guilt over quitting a job, it would be very much appreciated. thank you for reading and any advice you can give