Quit after 2 months? (maternity leave, interviewed, jobs, interest)

[packerman15]

I've been very unhappy at my new job for the past several weeks, which I started 2 months ago. It's very a very demanding job, where I work minimum 60 hours/week and that's the bare minimum. I've started to feel like my work is meaningless, partly because I have to be at the office until midnight working on things like a single presentation that only gets used once for a conference. I felt somewhat like this at my old job where I worked for a year in a similar role but with better hours. I graduated college in 2011 also. The job is plenty challenging, evolving, and interesting, and the work is far from mundane, but I suddenly have no motivation to do it. Being unmotivated and unambitious is not like me at all; it even has my girlfriend worried as it's one of the qualities about me she loves.
I'm concerned the job is about to get worse as my boss, who reads and rewords and approves all my reports, is about to go on maternity leave next week through the end of the year. So, my workload may pick up pretty heavily. However, I was not told my boss was pregnant when I interviewed, and I didn't notice (she was always sitting down when I met with her).
Do you think it's wise to begin looking for a new job and/or quitting in the next few months? Thanks!

[luckygirl15]

What really concerns me is that your sudden lack of motivation. If the job is interesting and challenging, then why are you suddenly unmotivated? That's what you have to find out.

For me, I wouldn't quit a job without having another job to go to. So, if you are really unhappy, then start looking for another job. At least that will help you feel like you are doing something about the situation.

But you still need to find out what is behind the lack of motivation because it may be something about the type of work that you are doing, and leaving to go the another similar job could bring right back to where you are now.

I've had "great" jobs where I felt bored and unmotivated. It's not that unusual. But I need to work so unless I absolutely hated the job and the people, I would try to find something that I liked, something that was positive about the job so that I could find something good about being there.

Good luck.

[joe from dayton]

Are you suffering from depression?

Do you really think they have an obligation to tell you someone is pregnant? Would you have turned down the job based on that?

[Koale]

Originally Posted by packerman15

I've been very unhappy at my new job for the past several weeks, which I started 2 months ago. It's very a very demanding job, where I work minimum 60 hours/week and that's the bare minimum. I've started to feel like my work is meaningless, partly because I have to be at the office until midnight working on things like a single presentation that only gets used once for a conference. I felt somewhat like this at my old job where I worked for a year in a similar role but with better hours. I graduated college in 2011 also. The job is plenty challenging, evolving, and interesting, and the work is far from mundane, but I suddenly have no motivation to do it. Being unmotivated and unambitious is not like me at all; it even has my girlfriend worried as it's one of the qualities about me she loves.
I'm concerned the job is about to get worse as my boss, who reads and rewords and approves all my reports, is about to go on maternity leave next week through the end of the year. So, my workload may pick up pretty heavily. However, I was not told my boss was pregnant when I interviewed, and I didn't notice (she was always sitting down when I met with her).
Do you think it's wise to begin looking for a new job and/or quitting in the next few months? Thanks!

this could probably fall under the category of 'burn out'...plain and simple.
Koale

[spotlesseden]

look for a new job while working on this one.

[Quitters_Win]

What kind of job is this? It sounds like a good job for a new graduate so just keep looking for a new job.