I left my one "real" job after a little more than a year. Now, this isn't a perfect comparison, because it was Bradley-Angle, and they were really good employers....
So, they knew I was considering leaving for months ahead of time (I was applying for grad school). My co-workers and supervisor were supportive of that, or at least, they understood that it was a reasonable thing for me to choose to do.
The period between giving notice and actually leaving was pretty calm, even though I was leaving in the middle of the summer (not a great time, since I was pretty much the entirety of the summer program for kids at the shelter). But I had made a point of building up the number of people working under me, which helped, and left a solid curriculum, and spent time in the months between giving notice and actually leaving with making a detailed list of what should be the qualifications for the job (specifically, that the person be bilingual in Spanish, which means I can't go back to that job now, since everyone agreed with me on that score).
But remember, this was BA, where they make a point in the interview of letting you know why they chose to use a hierarchical structure of organization, and where my supervisor would often intervene with me if she thought I was working too hard. So it's kind of an odd organization for comparison.
Sorry they're being jerks. On your end, I think that so long as you leave detailed instructions for the person who comes after you, and prepare your kids for the transition, you've done the right thing.
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:13 pm (UTC)So, they knew I was considering leaving for months ahead of time (I was applying for grad school). My co-workers and supervisor were supportive of that, or at least, they understood that it was a reasonable thing for me to choose to do.
The period between giving notice and actually leaving was pretty calm, even though I was leaving in the middle of the summer (not a great time, since I was pretty much the entirety of the summer program for kids at the shelter). But I had made a point of building up the number of people working under me, which helped, and left a solid curriculum, and spent time in the months between giving notice and actually leaving with making a detailed list of what should be the qualifications for the job (specifically, that the person be bilingual in Spanish, which means I can't go back to that job now, since everyone agreed with me on that score).
But remember, this was BA, where they make a point in the interview of letting you know why they chose to use a hierarchical structure of organization, and where my supervisor would often intervene with me if she thought I was working too hard. So it's kind of an odd organization for comparison.
Sorry they're being jerks. On your end, I think that so long as you leave detailed instructions for the person who comes after you, and prepare your kids for the transition, you've done the right thing.