re: Quitting on my boss

That’s tough. I am planning to leave soon (job in hand or not) and am part of a big organization, but my direct boss has been very good to me and was helping to make a path to the top level job. But we had a conversation and I want out and he is going to help me with leads at clients. I look at him as a mentor and friend.

Your situation won’t be easy. Best advice I can give is ask the company to give you a little later start date possibly to where you can maybe give a 3 week or month notice. Unless they really really need you urgently, I think this will actually reflect positively on you and show you are a good worker, trustworthy, and won’t burn bridges / do things detrimental if you move on years down the line.

To the current boss, do your best to maybe give a little extra time (week or two more than normal), but try to have everything organized and outlined as possible during for your departure. And if it doesn’t creat conflicts with your current company, offer to be a line of communication for any questions / etc during their new transition.

Best of luck and congrats on the new role!