I think the bottom line is that if you are unhappy in your job then try to better yourself in any way you can. If ultimately this means leaving then maybe that's the answer.
If only life were that simple, I joined the Prison service in 1980 & really enjoyed going to work, brilliant colleagues, brilliant job pay wasn't brilliant but there was plenty of overtime so we were happy & the Government were happy as paying us overtime was cheaper than employing more officers.
Fast forward now to 1987 when they introduced fresh start & made all sorts of promises all of which were broken.
Now here comes the part where I think "this is pissing me off maybe I should leave the service" but I had a young family to consider so personal job satisfaction came second in my thinking.
Before the Prison service I was a radio operator in the RN (join the forces & learn a trade) there was no call for radio operators in the civilian world apart from working as an ATC at Heathrow or Gatwick & there was no way I could uproot my family to move to London.
People are still joining the public sector & expecting promises to be kept, now ask yourself this, if you were an employer & you broke every promise made to your employees, would you expect to get away with it?
If you changed the contracts of your employees without their consent, would you get away with it?
would you get away with running three different pensions schemes side by side?
We have been putting up with Government bullshit since 1987 & we are saying "No more"