Is it a dumb idea to quit your job in this economy?
Leaving a stable $95k salary feels terrifying during an uncertain job market, especially when coworkers quitting leaves you drowning in extra work. This leaves you trapped between burning out from an unbearable workload and risking unemployment in a tough economy.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Seeking career guidance and evaluating family expenses through a budgetDid this help you?
- 2Considering looking for alternative career optionsDid this help you?
- 3Asking for advice on whether to pay down a mortgage or invest extra fundsDid this help you?
- 4Accepting a counteroffer and higher salary to stay while continuing to keep options openDid this help you?
- 5Waiting as long as possible to accept an outside offer while collecting higher pay before leavingDid this help you?
- 6Walking back the counteroffer immediately to take the outside job offerDid this help you?
- 7Asking peers on online forums for advice and validationDid this help you?
- 8Listing pros and cons of current and potential jobsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Here's where I'm getting nervous:”source ↗
“Does the raise make it reasonably likely that I'm not currently on the chopping block, or am I giving that way too much weight?”source ↗
“I'm more trying to figure out whether I should take the outside offer now, before this restructuring happens, or whether there's enough evidence here to justify staying for the time being”source ↗
Where this came up
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- 3Why do people get fired from accounting jobs so fast?
- 6How to decide if you should switch industries