After only a month, I deeply regret quitting my job and I’m embarrassed
As the title suggests. I quit my job a month ago because I gave in to a very stupid reason for putting in my two weeks. I won’t get into that reason but I left with zero jobs lined up and severely regret it.
I haven’t slept well, I’ve been over eating, and generally doing nothing besides putting in applications and having anxiety over the regret.
I loved my job, I loved the people I worked with, and this whole decision was idiotic of me.
It’s too soon to call my job back but either way I feel like I am going to look so dumb if they let me back on after only a month of being gone.
People have been gone for that amount of time before at my work but it was never because of resigning, it was always due to emergencies.
I know everyone, at the end of the day, would appreciate me being back over me being gone because I was dependable enough but I just cannot shake the shame over how soon it is.
If I wanted to come back so soon I should’ve just taken a vacation instead of wiping all my credentials.
I’m not the only person in the universe who’s left a job just to call back for a potential re-hire but I have so much general embarrassment just as a person that I feel like my coworkers will hate me over the fact that I literally shouldn’t have quit if I was going to just come back after a month.
It’s been the longest month of my life and I’m not a person who should be unemployed at all.
I’m going to bite my shame by the 15th of April and call to see if they’ll hire me again. I’ve already decided on that but I cannot believe I did this to myself at all.
There’s 8 billion people on this planet and I keep reminding myself I’m not the only one who’s pulled this but I still feel alone.
Netizens’ comments
- When I was younger I once just stopped going to work. Didn’t tell anyone why, I didn’t even call to quit. I just stopped going. I really liked the job too, and I didn’t then see my actions for the irrational mess they were.
The embarrassment you feel now might be nothing compared to the eventually self loathing you develop towards yourself for things like this. You made a mistake and you know the why of it all, forgive yourself for being human and use every mistake as a learning experience. Knowing what not to do is just as important as what to do.- (OP) You’re right. That’s why I’m just going to be embarrassed and swallow my pride regardless once a little more time passes I don’t want to end up in the self loathing portion of this when I can just make the call.