How badly do I axe my career if I quit after a few months?
Hello, I've been a CIO for a few months now. Problem is I can't keep up.
Background, I have 5 direct reports. We support 12 locations and 500+ employees. My 5 employees are all of the IT staff. We have very few managed services.
My IT staff are all hourly and overtime is strictly regulated, I don't get to pick this.
Therefore any problem after hours is my problem. We have 20+ major interfaces and probably 100+ devices that all self report and have to be managed (not counting all of the 1000+ actual devices) All this falls onto the CIO. Also all networking and cyber security, etc.
Not only this all reporting (which has heavily regulated requirements) also falls on the CIO.
I just led the company through a massive software change which included changing the workflow for all users in the organization, as well as replacing all hardware. We had to do this in less than two months because my predecessor had completely given up for awhile and left everything.
I'm now over three months in, working 12 hour days 6 days a week. Thinking about the job in all my free time, neglecting my family.
My proposal to move things around and staff up keeps getting rejected. I was sternly asked to work on the one day I take off by the CEO (so 7x12 hour days).
I'm at the end of what I can possibly do mentally and physically. I need to move on to something else. If I do I'm assuming CIO for x months will end my chances of ever being a CIO again?