Layoffs may be coming anyway. At least by looking now you can go in with less pressure.
My fear is that, coming from a similarly dysfunctional place, I'll just put in hopes and efforts for a better workplace and end up somewhere even worse, at which point I'll have to slow down in order not to change 3 jobs in such a small amount of time.
Also, sometimes I just feel ungrateful for whining this much, especially considering I have a family (not my own, mind you) to support and cannot allow myself to simply be without a job (and a well paying one at that) for long periods of time - I would love to have some objective measures for saying the role is not worth it, but of course that is not feasible in reality, and that deeply bothers me.
Where I come from, the notice period is here to protect the employee: if you get fired, then you know you have a salary for those months. But from the employer's perspective, as soon as you resign they want to see you go; what's the point of keeping an unmotivated employee for 6 months? Are you sure that you would be "forced" to wait 6 months?
> My fear is that, coming from a similarly dysfunctional place, I'll just put in hopes and efforts for a better workplace and end up somewhere even worse
I understand that feeling, I started with a messy startup and followed into a toxic one. Now I am in a healthy environment that I didn't know could exist! I just want to tell you that there is hope, it exists! Keep looking.
You're right, I'm still not sure about that. It's just been my experience so far (i.e. that of the employer requesting to oblige the notice period in full when leaving past jobs).
> I understand that feeling, I started with a messy startup and followed into a toxic one. Now I am in a healthy environment that I didn't know could exist! I just want to tell you that there is hope, it exists! Keep looking.
Pretty close to my own experience then, except for an extremely messy corp in between :P I'm glad it worked out for you!! Gives me hope to find something better myself :)