I work for a charity supporting care leavers, something I’ve been doing for the past nine years. Parts I love – particularly when you see you’re really making a difference to a service user. But the working conditions have ground me down.
There is a culture of bullying, and pressure to reduce our time with clients. Pay has been squeezed. Meanwhile the CEO is known to have a six-figure salary and occasionally turns up to work in his Ferrari – which grates. I want to leave, for my mental health – but I don’t want to let down service users, some of whom I’ve built longer term relationships with. What should I do?
