Leaving a grad job without one lined up

Many people will already know I'm not happy with my job. People treat me like a mute idiot, there is no support, training or any form of buddy system. I am incredibly unhappy and I'm sure the job isn't for me.

I am left in a terrible situation. I want to go, come home and job hunt, but i have no time to do so. I'm depressed all the time and the 12 hour day is unbearable, door to door.

It can't just be me feeling like this! I feel utterly alone and defeated at work and genuinely afraid of asking about trivial questions. If i leave, how likely will it affect future employment?

I've been there for over two months and i dislike both the work and the environment. What can i do? Sticking it out doesn't feel like an option anymore.

Not ideal, but only you can know what's best for you in this situation. It's not career ending to change your mind early on, nobody truely knows a position until they're in it.

Consider though that quitting without another job is a last resort, plenty of options before that. You could speak to someone relatively scenior at work and explain you're not happy with the current opportunities for example - nothing to lose from that if the alternative is to quit. Similarly, if you know you want out and want time to apply elsewhere in the evenings, then simply take it. Work your contracted day (8 hours?) and then leave. You won't get a promotion, but there's sod all they can do to you for not working overtime.

I'm not sure advising remedial action is the best when it's highly likely OP is simply suffering from the culture shock of real full time work and isn't adjusted to the role.

2-8 months is the hardest part in grad jobs. It is after the initial buzz has work off and before they really feel settled in their position.

Possible, maybe even likely, only the OP can know really. Twelve hour days aren't exactly the norm, and some people (quite rightly IMO!) value a work life balance very highly. He may simply not be suited to the culture or the type of work, after all unless a student has done very relevant work experience, taking any graduate position is just sticking a foot out in the dark and hoping you land somewhere you like really!

Either way, I was just trying to point out there are some strong alternatives to consider if things are so bad he is literally going to resign. Not necessarily the best course of action though!

What are you doing right now by the way? What position (of course don't name the company) and what makes you hate it about from the people side? To a certain degree I thought that graduate schemes were suppose to fast track you so no training etc sounds weird

Are you sure there is 100% no scope for change because I'm sure you know just how hard it is to get a job right now....

Grads have found it to be a similar experience. They were offered little support and are basically thrown into the work. I've been thrown into the deep end - while I might be alright if I actually enjoyed the work, I don't. I feel like I'm only here because it's a roundabout way of becoming what I actually want to do, but the team is unsupportive and the culture is very much, "I went through hell, you can too."

I don't know your personal situation in regards to being able to financially cope without working for a few months, or whether you have a lot of work experience prior to this. If this is your only real work experience then I would strongly recommend sticking it out for a bit longer and looking for other jobs, you can explain on your application that you are leaving because of a lack of training opportunities. One of my friends did that 4 months into a new job and she still got interviews. If you have a lot of work experience prior to this job and it's making you that unhappy then it wouldn't be the worse thing in the world for you to quit, go home and look for another job. I did that and things worked out for me, it's not worth making your self that unhappy over a job.

1) All I can say is that it isn't a scheme, it's a proper grad job. I'm finding it hard to get my head around some of the technical skills required for the job because it hasn't been explained in a way I'm comfortable with. I'm struggling with somewhat "basic" concepts and all my manager seems to do is take the same approach each time, and then spew out some behavioural competencies.

The job role itself requires someone who's very numerate, proactive and sociable. I'm someone who's quite detail oriented and prefers to get things right and then move on to another task, rather than be forced to do a new task in a small time constraint and be expected to do it correctly.

Grads have found it to be a similar experience. They were offered little support and are basically thrown into the work. I've been thrown into the deep end - while I might be alright if I actually enjoyed the work, I don't. I feel like I'm only here because it's a roundabout way of becoming what I actually want to do, but the team is unsupportive and the culture is very much, "I went through hell, you can too."

HR told me that it takes a good 4-6 months to get settled into a new position, but dear lord, it feels like I'm trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.

I was good at my degree because I was passionate about it. I enjoyed what I was doing, and worked hard as a result because I had a curiosity to understand things. Here, I'm no longer curious because it's just time constraints, deadlines and learning quickly as opposed to learning at your own pace. My pace just isn't quick enough, and I'm actually afraid that it'll be the same whereever I go.

There must be plenty of graduates who have taken up jobs and quit very early on, surely? Perhaps not in a recession, but surely the experience and the fact that I battled through for a few months is a positive spin on things? I've noticed that the world, and even TSR, tends to jump to the extreme negative conclusion. 2) I imagine a recruiter looking at my CV and thinking, "didn't stick at it? Bin his CV", whereas someone with a more balanced view of the world would probably think, "oh, he has a lot of the skills we're looking for, let's invite him for an interview."

I agree that there's no sense in simply leaving. I would need to really work at it before I realise that the job just isn't for me, so I'll really mull this over before I make any rash decisions.

Many people will already know I'm not happy with my job. People treat me like a mute idiot, there is no support, training or any form of buddy system. I am incredibly unhappy and I'm sure the job isn't for me.

I am left in a terrible situation. I want to go, come home and job hunt, but i have no time to do so. I'm depressed all the time and the 12 hour day is unbearable, door to door.

It can't just be me feeling like this! I feel utterly alone and defeated at work and genuinely afraid of asking about trivial questions. If i leave, how likely will it affect future employment?

I've been there for over two months and i dislike both the work and the environment. What can i do? Sticking it out doesn't feel like an option anymore.

especially when you have coworkers laughing at you and behavioural competencies thrown your way, with looks of disappointment and countless snide remarks. It's disappointing and thoroughly demoralising.

All I can say is that it isn't a scheme, it's a proper grad job. I'm finding it hard to get my head around some of the technical skills required for the job because it hasn't been explained in a way I'm comfortable with. I'm struggling with somewhat "basic" concepts and all my manager seems to do is take the same approach each time, and then spew out some behavioural competencies.

The job role itself requires someone who's very numerate, proactive and sociable. I'm someone who's quite detail oriented and prefers to get things right and then move on to another task, rather than be forced to do a new task in a small time constraint and be expected to do it correctly.

While I still maintain that you ultimately are the only one who really knows your situation, a lot of the above does give the impression that you've possibly come out of the reasonably laid back academic system and are struggling to adjust to a professional workload. It's a different world once you graduate, but ultimately the laid back uni experience couldn't last forever, you've got to earn your money! Think about it carefully.

As for the two bold bits in particular;

1) Graduate schemes are 'proper jobs'. A graduate scheme is just a name given to imply the job is part of a structured training programme designed to progress the graduate joiner within the company. If you join a large company within a graduate position then you are almost certainly joining a graduate scheme. It is a full time permanent job. Did the company you joined take on several graduates at the same time, and do they offer a set programme of training opportunities every few months etc? If so, you probably are on a graduate scheme.

2) To be blunt, in the real world recruiters get far more CVs then they could possibly hope to interview. They have to majorly narrow the process between application and interview, so unfortunately realistically a big question mark on your CV can absolutely be enough to get your application binned. Harsh, but true I'm afraid.