Call it quiet quitting, bare minimum, doing the job as defined, whatever it is. How do those of you who have/are doing this shake the anxiety of job loss?
Prior to my current job i was at a small start up where i quickly was given a LOT of responsibility. I enjoyed it since i got to basically run things but i was also at the VERY start of my career and the job did not pay well. Fast forward a couple years i got recruited for a job doing the same thing just with less decision making responsibilities but it was double my pay and the pay was GOOD (pre crazy inflation anyways lol). I felt like i cashed in and was ready to slow down a bit and coast.
i have been here a bit over a year and have been doing the bare minimum/quiet quitting for the entire time. the problem is my team has no real guidance. I just do my job as i feel is best and handle things how i think is best and so far no major complaints. But i see my team members contributing to the organization as a whole and implementing massive changes to better the department but thats not our job its just going above and beyond. Now i feel like they are upstaging me and that i am out of my league here and its only a matter of time before my “slacking” gets me laid off. I am having constant anxiety about it because i feel like i am not doing enough. To be fair i was pretty underqualified on paper but i had the raw skills for the job arguably better than the others on my team. I work from home too so i fear it would be easy to see me as waste. I am at least 5 years younger than everyone on my team and didnt even have a full 3 years of experience in this field compared to my teammates who had well over double what i do now. I also think i am paid more than them which is crazy. I feel like combined with the quiet quitting or whatever and my lack of experience and high pay and 0 contributions to the team i am going to get cut.
Does anyone else get anxiety over this?