I got a new job yesterday. While I acknowledge that I still have to work a notice period and I don't know how I'll find the new job yet, it still feels like a breath of fresh air. The role I'm leaving is terrible. I've been asked to work practically a different role for the last year as a “favour” for lack of proper staffing (), my manager didn't give a shit about how much good I'd done for the team when I had a period of illness () and treated me like a liar and we're constantly in the shit with managers gaslighting people that “everything will be better soon” even though they aren't doing anything about the issues (). The interview for my new role was filled with easy conversation, jokes being cracked here and there and just an inviting feeling that felt so foreign to me. The role itself is also everything I'm good at and without the shit I hated doing in past roles. The money is the same but there's far more development prospects and I get to be purely WFH rather than hybrid until further notice. I'm praying that it goes well but I wanted to share this… I'd stopped seriously applying for jobs because my old managers treated us so badly in 1000 different ways that I'd started to believe I was useless and incapable of having a positive experience at work. I allowed some good opportunities to pass me by. For context, I have a degree and am considered well-liked as a person so this doesn't add up. On applying to this new role, I scored full marks on the entry test and the new manager said I presented myself really well. I feel like I'm leaving an abusive relationship here to finally regain some happiness in my work and if you feel like you're stuck in something similar, know that you're worth more than how they treat you.