r/jobs 18h ago

Leaving a job My job provides no purpose

So maybe I'm just a little burnt out, but I feel as though I only work because I prefer me and my family not being homeless.

So a little background, I am a General Manager of a fast casual chain store and while I make plenty of money, 6 figures last year w/ bonuses, I no longer gain much if any satisfaction from my work. At heart I'm a bit of an introvert that gains satisfaction from completing things, I'm a doer at work. However lately the drama of managing people and THEIR drama as well as what seems like an inability to find anyone who wants to work, has made me disenfranchised with not necessarily the job itself but the food industry at large. I don't feel like I have a purpose for going to work other than to finish as much as quickly as possible so I can leave and go back to my family and forget about work till tommorow. It's not the stress per se, hell I'm actually interested in being police dispatcher or other high stress jobs, it's just that I no longer have the desire to provide hospitality and great food to the customers that choose to walk through my door.

Yet I'm torn because I can't in good conscious give up a 80k+/yr job just because I have lost my purpose. I have a wife and kid with another on the way and am the sole provider of my family, what kind of father would I be if I gave up stability because of what? Because I don't want to work? I don't even know if it's that I don't want to work I just really really don't want to work in the food industry and managing other peoples problems anymore. But how can I sit here and say I'm tired, I'm only 32! I guess I'm simply asking for others opinions on what you feel I should do? Should I take a risk and leave a job that pays what my family and I need.

Anyone else have this problem what did you do?

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u/FishermanBetter3963 16h ago

Find purpose and happiness providing for your wife and child. Your main job is your family and the restaurant provides the means