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If You Already Hate Your New Job, It's Fine to Quit
Three out of 4 people say a new role has left them unpleasantly surprised. Younger workers see no reason to stay.
There’s always another train.
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When Devin Tomb was 24, she began a new role as an editor at a teen magazine. “I knew by my second day that I’d made the wrong decision,” she said. “Behind closed doors, the editor-in-chief didn’t match the warm, friendly persona she displayed in public. It got so bad that our executive editor tried to console me one day by saying this EIC was ‘just hazing me.’”
I had a similar experience at 23, when I took a job that promised international travel — but in reality, mostly involved trips to Ohio. And it turns out this phenomenon is more common than many people realize.