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This is going to be very dependent on your relationship with your boss(es) - I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all answer to this. FWIW here's my experienc

This is going to be very dependent on your relationship with your boss(es) - I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all answer to this. FWIW here's my experience: I was a banquet manager before returning to school to switch careers and a few months into school (long enough to be "sure" about switching) I thought I would tell my boss I wanted to become a software developer and had returned to school to pursue that. I assured her it wouldn't require any adjusting of my schedule (I would schedule my school around work) and that I wasn't planning on leaving the hotel until I finished my degree (i.e. years). Her response was that if I was going to leave [eventually] she'd rather it be sooner so she could hire my replacement and so I gave my two weeks notice that day. If you think there's any chance their response would be along the lines of what I experienced I'd suggest not letting them know until you find something and then give the standard two weeks. [Also, I don't want the above to make it sound like I left on a bad note, she was supportive and encouraging of me and she coordinated a nice going away lunch for me and we all grabbed drinks after my last shift, etc]

gayprogrammer 12y ago
I don't understand why you say it is very dependent on the relationship with the boss. You only give a negative example for telling the boss. Was the positive side getting a free lunch without a job?
- frostmatthew 12y ago
  > You only give a negative example for telling the boss. I gave the only relevant example I had, which happened to be negative [it actually worked out extremely well for me but that's another story] and cautioned the OP if they thought that was a possible reaction they're better off waiting and giving two weeks once they find something. If they know their boss better than I did (we had only worked together a few months) they may be able to gauge the response better than I was, which is why it depends on the relationship.
MichaelCrawford 12y ago
My maternal grandmother was an elementary school teacher back in the 1920s or so. Back then it was SOP for female teachers to be fired if they got married. So when grandma and grandpa got married, she didn't tell anyone at her school. To the extent any of her coworkers knew about grandpa, they thought the two of them were just dating. When grandpa graduated medical school, they had the principal of granda's school over for dinner to celebrate. "I'd like to introduce you to my husband." She quit her job on the spot, and the two of them left the state.

gayprogrammer 12y ago

I don't understand why you say it is very dependent on the relationship with the boss. You only give a negative example for telling the boss. Was the positive side getting a free lunch without a job?

frostmatthew 12y ago
> You only give a negative example for telling the boss. I gave the only relevant example I had, which happened to be negative [it actually worked out extremely well for me but that's another story] and cautioned the OP if they thought that was a possible reaction they're better off waiting and giving two weeks once they find something. If they know their boss better than I did (we had only worked together a few months) they may be able to gauge the response better than I was, which is why it depends on the relationship.

MichaelCrawford 12y ago

My maternal grandmother was an elementary school teacher back in the 1920s or so. Back then it was SOP for female teachers to be fired if they got married. So when grandma and grandpa got married, she didn't tell anyone at her school. To the extent any of her coworkers knew about grandpa, they thought the two of them were just dating. When grandpa graduated medical school, they had the principal of granda's school over for dinner to celebrate. "I'd like to introduce you to my husband." She quit her job on the spot, and the two of them left the state.