I've found myself in a tricky situation at work. I work in the natural resources industry and last year finally landed what I thought would be my dream job, and even beat out over 130 other candidates. The job is not a dream. My department has had turnover after turnover and is basically a revolving door. The person doing my job before me had already quit by the time I started and left things a mess. My training consisted of “here's the server location of things you should read”. My benefits were 2 months late to start. What I am struggling with the most is this job is not as advertised. I went to school for 4 years for a specific area of study, was told I'd be using that knowledge and skill sets, and it is absolutely not true. The job is not going well due to being so unorganized and I feel like my role every day is just putting out small fires.
Now, I've received a better offer for a job doing what I want, that pays MUCH better, and could start on Monday. This means I would need to quit my job this Friday with no notice. I morally have nothing wrong with this. The issue I am having is that my job involves working with local citizens and doing projects with them, and when I quit that is going to go to shambles. This job has negatively affected my mental health to the point that my partner is genuinely concerned for me and wants me to quit today. But again, I am struggling with the bomb that my quitting will set off. So many deadlines, contracts, project arrangements blah blah blah.
Is this really my responsibility to worry about? How to I stop worrying so much? Worth noting that this job will NOT be on my resume. I have a plethora of other experience and references to use.