Any advice/insight/encourage welcome!
Like many people, COVID shifted my brain about work and priorities and time and how it is spent.
I have been at my same job for 15 years, making almost six figures with decent benefits. I feel very blessed for the coworkers that became close friends over the years, for all I’ve learned and for the “second home” I’ve made here.
Before I started this job (in finance) I never thought I’d go down this particular career path but the stars just kept aligning and time just kept passing and now here I am, but my natural instincts about this just not being “me” have resurfaced.
I was remotely working for 15 months during the pandemic and loved the pace of not racing around to spend 8 hours in my cube. I loved to be around my dog and take work calls outside in the sunshine.
I also got married during this time and my spouse makes substantially more than me.
My spouse also would have me quit tomorrow if I would just get the courage.
My alternate plan would be real estate – finances are not a problem in the immediate term and I would have benefits through my spouse.
So here we are. My spouse welcomes this and is encouraging it as he sees i have potential to succeed in a field more aligned with what I want and supports this. But I’m scared. I’m scared of letting my team down, disappointing people, making a mistake, and actually worst of all navigating leaving as my immediate co-worker goes on maternity at the end of this week for 4 months and I love her! I’ve held off on making this jump earlier as I didn’t want to take away from the joy of her pregnancy and stress anyone unnecessarily.
What do I do? Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Are you glad you left? Regret leaving? Advice on me doing this as gently on myself and on my work team?
Mentally my mind has moved on and I feel more disconnected by the day sitting in my cube and I don’t want to drag this out.