That's not always the case. There are guys out there that just can't stay in one place very long for whatever their reason. They not only cost us money, but it hurts our ability to pay the good guys more.

 

Most of the company's in Florida will dump you if they can save a dime an hour and go with lower skilled workers.

I been promised a few times you work hard here and we all do good, I lasted one week after being promoted to expediter, making sure all the jobs had what they needed and still worked wiring when wasn't needed in shop or part hunting.

Work just died or the company wasn't getting it and I was laid off 4 months later.

If that wasn't good enough I had a landscaping business that the state killed for me after hurricane Hugo went through Miami and they ran all the poor Cubans out, moved 500 thousand to Orlando and gave them all the loans they wanted and paid there rent for a year.

So tell me how you compete against that, everyone that was doing 75 to a 100 thousand a year were put out of business, to make a few rich people happy and then they let open the flood gates to the mexicans and we were out of the buildings jobs we had by people doing inferior work.

So I have very little faith in company's that will treat you well or a state or country.

I'm finding it real hard to keep a good outlook on life.

 

True. However, I wish this was some sort of officially tracked statistic: "Reasons why people leave jobs." Because if it was, I bet you will find the overwhelming majority of the reasons fall on the side of greedy employers, or reasons beyond either employers or employee's control, as Herb alludes to above.

It's always easier to just blame some anonymous individual(s) for your gripes.

 

In school I was taught people don't leave jobs, they leave managers.

 

since ya got a wife/girlfriend forget the other job
before my accident I had to leave my job and take another took a pay cut but had benefits and still getting calls from them to come back to work and the guys i worked with at least once a month

I wouldn`t take a job that would take me away from my wife don`t care how much $$$$$ they offer

 

in my little o opinion nothing is worth being away from your family for any length of time to much lonliness can lead to trouble i know keep your family close its not worth any amount of money to be separated from them because of the things you will miss out on and its always the little stuff that you miss the most everyday life

 

fer a redneck yer a very wise man

 

Wow, great advise so far guys. I really do appreciate all of it. I've lost a lot of so called friends due to my sometimes brutal honesty, so blunt or not, I'll take it!
I'm not a job hopper, all my previous jobs I've spent a minimum of 5 years. Not super long by many people's standards, but all for reasonable circumstances. I do realize leaving this job after 2 months is 'job hopping' and by and large is what is eating at me.
That aside, my wife and I (no kids) have discussed it quite a bit. I've traveled for work before and it wasn't bad for us. The hard part then was we had just moved to WY and I didn't have our place set up real well for our horses and the chores were a bit much and we didn't know anyone nearby if she needed help. That's all changed now at our new place. We haven't completely decided, but our discussion last night was to the effect of "you can do something better" and "you leave early in the morning and come home late, eat dinner, make a mess and go to bed anyway, so it's like you're not here anyway"