-ins0mniac
Times are tough right now. Getting your next job should be your priority, but quitting your day job to focus on the job hunt is a silly move when unemployment is over 10%. Keep your job until you secure the next one.
Until then take some solace in the knowledge that your current situation is temporary.
I must say that the other replies that I've read have also been helpful, I cannot disregard the other replies though, and I am still torn between quitting and keeping my current job which pays student assistant wages yet still, we do most of the work in the department.
-ins0mniac
What i get reading the thread is that this job is also draining away the energy you need to search for another job seriously (and that lead to the desire to just quit and start searching for something else). As others have said, i don't see any particular reason to suggest you to "just quit". Why don't you simply find a temporary job somewhere just to get out of the current environment, and then start a proper next job search while still receiving a paycheck,etc...? It should not be that hard to find a temporary web dev job.My .2$.
I was a 1-man show for a fiber optic distributor. I was IT. Help desk. Network administrator. Training. Developing internal apps and processes. Website development (including working with marketing and graphic designers).
Everything. The website and the CMS that powers it (wasn't a thing as a cheap CMS back then), the middleware that tied their contact management and other systems together? All still running fine (I've been brought in for 2 weeks in 8 years to do some small enhancements).
What did I get? $12/hour and 5 days off a year. Within 60 miles of one of the 10 most expensive cities in the US (I'd like to say #4 or #5). Compensation in their sales department was equally messed up (i.e. a guy that was seriously responsible for 55% of company revenue got only 10% more compensation than someone responsible for 3% of company revenue), but I digress. It was bad. I knew it. I made a plan to move on.
It's 10 years later. I moved out of that general area after taking higher paying jobs ($45-50K/yr), realizing that moving to the city was a further 50-to-100% pay raise for a 20-25% cost-of-living increase. I was not wrong. Took A) being top of my game, B) the time to achieve A and C) getting out there looking for what I wanted. The work is now interesting, and I'm paid at market rate (nearly 6-digits) in the city, but it took effort. About 9 years of it. And I still dealt with a mountain of nonsense along the way, and several bosses that would tell me, "You're getting screwed for compensation, but so-and-so won't approve a raise larger than X".