I had been working at the same place for about three years. It was good in the beginning, but slowly got worse over time. The company was bought out by a huge corporation, and things got worse and worse. The company used to send me birthday cards in the mail, and was family-owned for over 100 years. They treated people better than most companies, and that was part of the reason that I applied there and not elsewhere. That all went away after the buyout. I have basically been in a living hell for the past year. I used to work with good people, but they all slowly stated leaving (which obviously wasn’t a good sign). By the end, I hadn’t learned a new skill in over a year, was underpaid for the amount of work that I was doing, and none of the new hires ever lasted more than 2 weeks due to the insane stress of the job.
I resigned and I feel so free. I’m going to take some time off and not work for a while and just enjoy life. While I was working, that seemed like my whole world. But now that I’m not there anymore, I see that it’s all an illusion, and that there is so much to life outside of work.