I have been working for a hospital for years. I worked in an accounting assistant role. Part of my job included processing payroll. While I was working, I was studying for my degree (which I got in December last year with honors). This whole time the hospital leaders kept telling me to get the degree to get promoted. Okay, done. Months later and no promotion.
I've earned awards for my work ethic. I've made what I thought were friends here. I didn't want to leave. But I'm earning way less than I know my degree earns and do a lot of work for it.
My desk is overworked and in April when I got the opportunity to work from home for another company, I took it. It was for more money and less work. I thought I was making a mistake leaving the people I loved.
Today, as I'm training someone for my role, HR sent out an email with available positions. One of them was a supervisor role for my department doing only a small part of my job. Not only could I have been paid more, but it would have cut my work in half. And I've been doing payroll for years.
When I saw the role and read it aloud, I asked the person I was training (who works for the hospital's CEO) what was this. She gently patted me on the back and said, “I know.”
The point is, don't feel anything about leaving. Just go. And when the labor strikes happen, support the movement. This is utterly bullshit.
Edit: spelling errors