![]() I received a heartfelt email from our company owner explaining that she didn’t want to lose me. My boss has begun making offhand comments that make me doubt my decision like, “I would never work for a company that big,” “You should know we’ll be going into a second Great Depression, so layoffs are coming,” and “You were my choice to replace me, so I guess I’ll be sticking around for a while.”Ģ. But some of it has to do with what has happened since I gave my notice:ġ. ![]() It is a big step, but I thought that I had weighed every pro and con before reaching my decision.īut now that I’m in my notice period, I feel like I’m always ten seconds away from calling my boss and saying, “Never mind! I want to stay!” I know at least some of this comes from nerves over making a big change, and I still suffer from a lot of the self-doubt that characterized my time in my current role. I’ll be starting from scratch building relationships with colleagues who live both locally and abroad. I will be one of many on a huge team (which I wanted after my most recent experience), and working for a large public company comes with higher risks than my small but stable employer. Of course, I knew there would be potential downsides, too. It felt like being a living wife of Henry VIII I never knew if it was skill or luck that saved my head.Īt the new job I accepted, I’ll be working on more complex projects and have more flexibility, better internal standards, and a much higher salary. Every other member of my team was either on a performance-improvement plan, just off of one, or fired for poor performance. I always doubted myself, even when I was told I was doing great, because it was so easy to make mistakes (especially as my boss isn’t the most effective manager, which is another letter entirely). ![]() Our workload was immense, and there was constant pressure to be perfect, particularly because I worked with our company owners every day. But I was miserable for much of my time there. I did really well in the role, and my boss’s feedback became increasingly geared toward my taking her job in the future. My company is extremely small for our industry compared to the one I am going to (think: tech start-up versus Apple). I’m wondering if what I’m feeling about my resignation is normal, and how I can best position myself to still start my new role with confidence despite my fears.
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