My mom hates her job and has been saying she wants to leave for a year but never does and is unhappy a lot, idk what to do to help her

My mom is in her early 50s and over my life time (I’m 24) has held 5 jobs. She only has her GED but at one point she did have several insurance licenses as she was working in insurance when I was younger. My mom said she disliked working in insurance and the work life balance wasn’t good (at that time I was a little kid and my mom wanted the ability to work part time or be able to leave as needed to watch me or volunteer with my activities). There was also a situation were my mom was injured while leaving her office in a slip in fall accident. It was bad enough my mom needed to have surgery and she had to take time off of work. To this day she still has pain from the injury. From what I understand, her boss at the insurance agency was being a jerk and not waiting to pay my mom workers comp and he kept asking her to come back to work.

My mom ended up leaving her insurance job and took some time off before trying to find another job. My dad has always had major labor type jobs and in my life he’s either been a construction worker or factory worker. He made enough money for it to be feasible for my mom to take a temporary break. Her next job was working with a loan/mortgage company as a lender. Here, my mom clashed with another employee. Idk if my mom not getting along with a coworker was the motivating factor for her leaving this job or if there were others but I think my mom ended up leaving after about a year.

After this my mom landed a secretary role with a state department. She had this job for 16 years and I think she liked it the most. The schedule was very laid back and she could come and go as she pleased. She got along with pretty much everyone at that office. The only drawbacks were that it was a low paying job, there was a constant threat of my mom’s office being shut down due to budget cuts, and the lack of upward mobility. My mom was told that she would likely be promoted to office manager upon the retirement of her boss. After 13 years after my mom started, her boss retired. However my mom was not promoted and was told she did not have the necessary qualifications to be a manager since she did not have a BA (however neither did my moms old boss who started at the department as a janitor 50 years ago). The higher ups ended up making someone else located 2 hours away in charge of my mom and the office she worked at. The guy now appointed to be my mom’s boss didn’t want the responsibility of running her office so he handed the job off to his own secretary who had less seniority than my mom. My mom was angry with how everything went down and she did not get along with the other secretary that was trying to run her office, plus she wanted something higher paying and she was still worried about the possibility of losing her job if budget cuts required her office to close.

My mom found another job at the same company that employee my dad. It is a factory. My mom was hired to work in an office in the purchasing department. I think my mom liked the job and it was higher paying but she did not like any of her new managers. After 2 years here, my mom was let go because the department was downsizing and her position was cut.

This same company happened to be hiring for another job, basically as a secretary inside the factory. My mom took the position to have a job. This is my moms current job and she absolutely hates it. She complains everyday about it and she gets into arguments with a lot of the people she works with. She says that no one is showing her how to do her job and that nobody seems to follow the rules. She feels she cannot do anything right and the job is too stressful for her. She complains all the time and she does have valid complains but at the same time, I am so frustrated with hearing her threatening to quit everyday and never doing it.

I want my mom to be happy and I agree she doesn’t need to be this stressed at her age. I do think the job is taking a toll on her health, mentally and physically. My mom always seems tried and angry. It is sometimes exhausting to be around her because she only wants to complain about work all of the time.

She will occasionally look for jobs and has said anything else would be better than what she has now, but the yet she’ll be extremely picky when I try to suggest places to her. My parents live in a small town so there are a limited number of jobs. I have often found myself browsing job boards for my mom and sending her positions more so than what she does.

I think my mom and dad would be fine even if my mom went to only working part time or working a full time secretary/bookkeeping with a lower salary ($15-$17). I think a low stress office job with limited interaction with other workers would be best with my mom (from what I typed I am aware my mom has butted heads with at least one boss/coworker for each job she’s been in and I will admit, she shares at least some fault for that, but I can’t tell my mom that) What sucks is my dad took a paycut when he switched to a new department at this factory. I guess the workers who switched were promised advancing training on new machines which equals better job security, and they were supposed to get raises. After a year that hasn’t happened. My dad is working harder than he’s ever had to before and he has injured himself multiple times in his new job. He also hates his new position and wants to go back to his old job. He’s been trying to go back but now his new department is offering him a raise to get him to stay. My mom and I do not want him to stay because this job is so taxing on his health. Idk what my dad is going to decide, but that is another factor that plays into my mom keeping/changing jobs.

I no longer live with my parents and I have my own full time job. I’m just at a loss as to what to do since both of my parents hate their jobs so much and neither one seems to know what to do as well.

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