Depending on where you live, 60k for a boring no stress job sounds great to me. So what if you aren't going anywhere. 60k with a 3 percent yearly raise? I will take it. I am a boomer and used to feel like you. I wanna be someone and i want six figures! Well i got there and let me tell you, i would gladly go back to being nobody for 60k and no stress. I am so tired of getting my ads chewed by CEOs and Project Managers that I would gladly crawl back in a hole. My life and health would greatly improve. Be careful what you wish for is my advice.

You have to weigh what you already have against the uncertainty of moving on.

It's pretty simple: If you don't like it there and it's so intolerable, then look for another job. If the good outweighs the bad, then keep the job and stop whining.

I am in a similar boat. I am actively looking for another position, but I am very, very picky, so I imagine this will take a while (it's been a year and a half so far). But as a working mom with 3 kids, I'm going to disagree with many of the previous posters and tell you to stay at your current job until you get into parenting a bit. Working full-time and parenting is friggin' tough, and you'll appreciate the flexibility and lack of stress in your work life.

I was recently in the same situation. Good paycheck, awesome manager, very low stress, awesome yearly bonus, and I had a nice title, but I wasn't learning anything or gaining any new skills (I'm in IT, which is a field you have to stay up on the latest and greatest or quickly become obsolete). I took a pay cut and jumped ship to pursue another avenue (a more technical route in IT and not as customer service focused). It has been a rough transition, but once I have a year with this skillset on my resume, I will be set to write my own ticket.

If you are not where you want to be in your career, you will have to go somewhere else. Do you want to be further along in your career, or do you think that society has an expectation for you to be further on? It sounds like you've got it pretty good in terms of a working environment, so I wouldn't leave just to leave. If the right door opens, take a peek inside.

I’ve been in that position a few years. Older millennial here. Basically my career growth was stunted when the old management team left because the company decided to purge itself of management and workers with decades of experience only to replace them with cheaper substitutes while at the same time cutting all training in the company (brilliant idea that was) And since then turnover has been sky high. There are times I would like to move up and make more money, I’ve been asked once or twice but then I see he imbeciles who are running the facilities from afar and woefully out of depth they are and all the horrid decisions they have made over the past few years and running everyone off .... and think to myself why bother. I don’t have to deal with all the nonsense and idiots and backstabbing in my current position. The grass ain’t always greener. If it was such a great deal “leveling up” why is all middle management leaving? You want to look at the quality of the people running these things before you decide you want to answer to them. And is a bump in pay even worth it? In my case, no way!!!

Why not just wait out the older folks as the drop one by one into retirement? If you are looking for a quick fix there isn't going to be one. Once you start to get to the executive level (just below it) you just have to wait it out until those folks retire. There are millions of older folks expected to retire over the next several years. I once had a boss that never said one word about retiring and then poof he was gone out of the blue.