So for the past 9 months I’ve been working at the same place as my mom at a printing company. This place is about an hour and a half from where my mom (formerly) and I live. I carpooled with her for those 9 months up until this week since I didn’t have a car for the longest time until this weekend. I honestly like my job and if I could afford to stay I would, but the arrangements for me to get there are complicated now. My mom moved back to the town she and I lived in before I moved out so now I have to drive 40 minutes to her place in the morning so she can drive me the other half of the way to work than drive back another 40 minutes home after work. I get payed $12.50 an hour, minimum wage in my state is $12/hr. So now that I’ll have to spend at least $15 a day on gas just to get to work this job isn’t worth it for me anymore. It’s really upsetting because I genuinely enjoy this job and I’m just now mastering it. I also get along great with my coworkers and boss and love the fact that I don’t have to deal with customers. But like I said it’s just not going to be worth it anymore especially since my schedule is all over the place. Some weeks I work 5 days others I only work 2. When I went in today the first thing I did was tell my boss that I was looking for a new job but that I haven’t applied anywhere yet and explained my reasoning. All I really got was a “that sucks.” He then told my coworker before I got the chance to tell him myself as there were already things for me to work on right when i got there. My coworker was sad and told me that he would miss me. Him and my boss are always saying how I’m the best assistant they’ve had in the back in a very long time so I was honestly expecting my boss to try and get me to stay since I’m only one of 5 employees running an entire company. But no nothing. I also expected my coworker to try and convince my boss to give me a raise to get me to stay because he’s been there 10 years and always tells me horror stories about how hard it is to train new people and almost every day he tells me how thankful he is to have me in the back since I actually do my job and do it well. I haven’t missed a day, I haven’t made any major mistakes, I’ve mastered every task there except cutting and using the folder. Yet nothing when I told them I was looking for a new job. Nothing to my face at least. My mom informed me later that my boss was trying to convince her to drive an extra 2 hours every day to make it worth it for me to work there. It just makes no sense. If he gave me a $4 maybe even $3 raise I would stay. Clearly he’s rather go through the trouble of hiring someone else. I just feel really disposable. This is the first job that I’ve had in forever that I actually don’t hate. I also considered myself to be friends with the boss since he comes in the back and talks to me and my coworker for hours some days and we share a lot of interests such as video games, were always telling each other about the latest games we’ve played and about our consoles since he has an Xbox and I have a PlayStation. I don’t know I guess i was expecting something more, more of a reaction. On top of that my coworker who i considered one of my closest friends already hit up his buddy who can apparently start ASAP to replace me and he didn’t even tell me. He told my boss who told my mom. I thought I was doing the right thing by giving them extended notice but now I’m afraid they’ll try to shoo me out before I even get another job lined up. My mom told me most of this after we left work today and it makes sense why everyone was abnormally quiet today. Anyway I’m just rambling now and needed to get this out there, sorry for the formatting I’m on mobile.