I currently work in the child welfare field, I’ve been doing this 8 years and I have finally hit my burnout point and have accepted an offer in a long term care facility.

I’m very excited about this new challenge and opportunity but of course with a new chapter comes the ending of the old one.

I love my coworkers dearly and I will miss them. As well as few of my clients.

It is incredibly difficult to hire where I live in a remote, rural community. I have a contract with my current Agency that ends in May of this year. My new employer has agreed on a June start date for me. What I’m wondering is, since I already know I am leaving, is 3 months too much notice?

I have good relationships with my supervisor and management and I know they won’t fire me (they’re not going to fire a good worker when they already know I’m leaving) and I want to offer to help with on-boarding someone new in my position and with my clients. The standard two weeks notice just doesn’t seem to apply in some of these positions, for example where I’ve been a mainstay in some of these clients lives for almost a decade. Most of their childhoods for some of them.

I’m debating giving 2 or 3 months notice but not sure which seems like too much.

WWYD?