quit or not

I see some great suggestions, and I'm looking for some suggestions for myself.

Right now, I'm a working ant, with just enough income to cover food and rent. I don't see any growth from this job or from this type of job. It's like working in assembly line. A little experience is good, but too much experience is a minus. I want to make a career change, which will be in the same industry but totally different skillset. I plan to get a degree through part time program and possibly internally transfer. It will be a very difficult move and I'm not sure if I can make it. But as my friend said, you can either complain for the rest of your life or try really hard to make the real change. And I decided to choose the latter.

Then it comes to what I have to face right now. I got pregnent after I changed to this new job. Things are not that smooth since my manager learned the news. I'm not saying he is doing anything wrong, but I definitely know that I was not welcomed. My work is getting more tedious and less credit. I got more and more "why" questions with trivial matters and cold eyes. Every morning, he started my day with "did you finish....?" without a name, not even with a "Hi". I feel a lot of pressure, which is not from work itself, but from not being satisfied.

And I have a 2-year-old baby who still wake me up during night. I feel soooo exhausted from work and also from home that I know for sure it won't be good for my pregnancy. I think I'm close to depression. I'm so sorry for my will-be baby that I could not even give him/her a smile in the morning. I really want to quit this job and stay home until my 2nd baby is around 6 months old. But I know if it will be more difficult for me to make the career switch if I stayed home for a while. I'm 35 already. A year here, a year there, then I will see my 40 very soon. It's kind of scaring. But who knows if I need to work till 70 or 80. I don't have the luxury to be a stay-home mom for the rest of my life.

The other thing is, I need pay back the sign-on bonus if I quit now, since I haven't been here for a year.

So if you are a mom or a dad, what would you suggest me to do? I would like to hear different opinions.

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• Stay on donkey while looking for horese -oops_yz- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 10:15:06

• I would suggest you to suck up for 9 more months -oops_yz- ♀ (131 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 10:26:29

• 回複：I would suggest you to suck up for 9 more months -flash1234- ♀ (402 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 10:48:59

• The important thing is to get your job done, and -oops_yz- ♀ (356 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 11:41:59

• 你老公的收入是否能養家呢？如果能，你可以考慮辭職，因為你 -真情歲月- ♀ (64 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 12:26:48

• If you already decided to have a career change... -oldCar- ♀ (475 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 12:50:47

• Please quit your job for the future of the baby -njnj- ♂ (292 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 15:10:33

• 回複：quit or not -flash1234- ♀ (1011 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 15:51:52

• One of my friend had a similar situation, -*1_1*- ♂ (152 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 16:04:25

• know someone had similar situation, and the worst -m1i1t1- ♀ (373 bytes) () 03/26/2009 postreply 10:55:52

• Quit! Quit! Quit! -green666- ♀ (499 bytes) () 03/25/2009 postreply 16:29:24

• Can you enlist some one to help you? -lillyflower- ♀ (358 bytes) () 03/26/2009 postreply 14:10:10

• 我QUIT了 -馬蘭花- ♀ (448 bytes) () 03/26/2009 postreply 16:31:51