I've already figured that out actually. its one of the reasons I'm getting out of the guard at 14 years instead of staying for 20. The couple hundred bucks at age 65 is not worth the physical trauma and the time away from my family. It's just not.
That is exactly my dilemma. It is a lot of money at my salary rate, but the job is killing me with stress.
The issue I have to work out is whether another 3 months of pay in the bank is worth the extra time required to get it. On the one hand it lessens my stress on the other side looking for a new job, but on the other it extends the stress further that I may be able to take.
I have to do some serious thinking about it before I decide to take any action.
That is exactly my dilemma. It is a lot of money at my salary rate, but the job is killing me with stress.
The issue I have to work out is whether another 3 months of pay in the bank is worth the extra time required to get it. On the one hand it lessens my stress on the other side looking for a new job, but on the other it extends the stress further that I may be able to take.
I have to do some serious thinking about it before I decide to take any action.
I realize that is a lot of money to pass up, but ask yourself, can you get by on what you have already until you land that next gig if you were to quit? And how much is the stress affecting not only your health but your family life? That's one of the reasons I left my job working with at risk kids back in 2015 after a couple years. I loved the job of working with most of those kids. But the constant threats of getting stabbed and not being allowed to carry anything for our own defense. Not being allowed to fight back if needed. Working a swing shift made it bearable, but what stressed me the most was all the backstabbing between upper level staff. They spent more time bitching about students than they did trying to help those students. Then they'd purposely trying to get other staff in trouble, including setting them up. (literally, one of them hired a prostitute as a blind date for another staffer, the date occurred after work hours but she picked him up, the staffer that set it up, called the cops, had the dude arrested for solitication of a prositute, dude was fired while the one that set him up got promoted. true story)