dreamy_jack
Most people consider me as smart but I'm not given the opportunity to use my skills. In late 2019 I had decided to resign my current job because I found it too toxic, I had been diagnosed with bipolar and things had been very hard before I had decided to go and see a therapist who when immediately saw me referred me to a psychiatrist and I've been on medication since then.
My manager convinced me to stay and offered me a small increase in salary and promised me that my voice will be heard. He also convinced me to take a contract that involved completing an app that I had been working on. he made a lot of promises to me. As soon as I accepted his new offer and rejoined the company, he changed again, I'm still faced with the issues I used face previously and as someone with bipolar, I get stressed easily and the company does not make it any easy for me. Last week I just decided to send my manager a notification about my planned exit next year. He's trying to convince me to continue staying... So I'm just wondering why s would someone want you to stay in a company without giving you the opportunity for growth? For me it feels like they just want to use me to do the hard work and then "The right people will take the credit", considering I don't have a university degree.
Are other young engineers who are talented face similar issues in other companies? Despite my age, I've been working with computers longer than most people around me. So I do know a lot and can easily do any task. A lot of people are just usually concerned with how do I know what I know? Most of the time people don't listen to me and when things go wrong or something is very technical they always want me to be the one to do that but I get no credit. Maybe I'm the problem. Is there something about me that makes it hard to be acceptable to these people?