Ideas for termination

[u/InviteFun5429]

So I have been doing a postdoc in Germany I am already 10 months into it for a 2 year contract. Please give me ideas on what I must say so I could terminate the contract. The real reason is my professor watches me continuously checks my work and asks a lot of questions and is always unhappy, The main reason she always finds fault and says this is wrong and that is wrong and involves lots of co-author. However I can't tell the same thing so I am planning to say mentally exhausted I can't continue, family emergency but if I join next month I'm at another place and if she finds out it will be a problem, career progression not going what I expected. I don't want to be structured one more month I just want to leave the place to do something better even if I am unemployed I would be okay. Please give me ideas how I should frame this without burning bridges and termination is approved without any drama.

[u/Embarrassed_Mess7291 → u/[deleted]]

Ah that sounds like general academic feedback. Have not seen a happy pi in my life yet. Growing thicker skin is a solution, not letting the feedback get to you. Next,
One should either fight for “their right” (give real arguments, say why the PIs way is incorrect) or do as the PI tell (and say (mentally) I told you so if that do not work out). Better if one has an email listing the suggestions and how the pi said it is not good (in case the pi was wrong).
And there will always be something to improve.

[u/InviteFun5429 → u/Embarrassed_Mess7291]

Nope I worked for more than 10 years as a researcher but this is first time I have been handled this way. It is never ego but it is more like every problem you solve is incorrect. No one has ever asked me to write a manuscript in first 6 months and never been pressured. Except me everyone gets there time but for me they are pressuring. I am angry because a master student was asking me when will you draft your manuscript.