Signs For You To Leave Your Job And Begin With A New Experience
Some scenarios to assess carefully before calling it a quit…
Our grandparents’ idea about jobs in the past was ‘loyalty in service’. People stayed in the job for many years without a change. They felt proud of being able to persevere very long.
They swallowed the politics and intoxicated old hunger of office survival making themselves less admirable down the road many years later. How many of them retired with too many illnesses?
Today, staying in a job for too long would not bring us the benefit of the past sages. Employers are unimpressed. We are seen as people who sat in their comfort zone and refused to have a growth mindset.
Some people got stuck in their jobs for many reasons. When is the right time to take an exit from where we are? These are some of the signs that show we need to pack up and leave the job.
1 — We are stagnant without promotion and salary increment. When your tasks keep increasing and bosses have thrown to you piles of work, it is time for you to reflect diligently. Are you biting more than you can chew? Is it fair that you are given tasks over tasks without an increment in your salary?
If you are still new, then you may want to take it in your stride. However, if you are already more than 1 year, promotion or salary increment should come along with additional roles added to you.
2 — You’d stayed more than 1 year. Based on a career expert named Alex Twersky in an article at mediabistro, an ideal year of work before we started bailing out is 1 year. Asian job portals consist of blogs that stated 2 years as the minimum stay in a company. Apart from reasons of leaving being “seeking higher salary” companies will also look into the pattern of the frequent job changes as job-hopping.
3 — When you dragged yourself to work often and came home either exhausted or burnt out. I remember Shaykh An-Ninowy from the USA reminded me that the only reason why we got exhausted daily is that we have no love for what we do. When our heart has no love for it, everything is a dread.
4 — You came into the office before the sunrise above the horizon and left only after sunset. You allowed your life occupied with jobs. You need personal space and time by yourself. Think about your welfare and mental health. Staying behind at the workplace beyond the office hours frequently will not make you be seen as effective or the top best employee.
5 — When everyone is too dependent on your income. You should leave the job if that is what will stop them from being dependent on you. You need a life too. Everyone else will have excuses that they still can’t afford or too many responsibilities to pay for.
Don’t you also have your future wants and desires? If everyone around you had been selfishly thinking for themselves, this is the time you got to be selfish for yourself. Play the bastard role. It is okay.
6 — When intoxicated working environment caused you to change in behavior. You grew very harsh and temperamental. Your family gets affected by your stress level. You started to learn to be a backstabber, slanderer, and manipulative. All these attitudes will not help you in the long run. Before you become a monster nobody seemed to recognise you anymore, it is pretty much a good time to leave.
7 — You had stayed in the same job till your hair almost turned grey! While people are proud to be staying in a job for 15 to 20 years, employers are not impressed. They looked at you as being stagnant, and a person of no growth mindset. You are seen as staying in your comfort zone as well as never take the opportunities to learn more from another environment.
8 — If staying deteriorates your mental health, be brave to take your leave, even if you have to earn a peanut salary from the petrol stations stores. It is not worth to trade your life over the job. It is not worth hurting yourself mentally over just a job.
These are a few signs that you should leave the job. However, leaving is not as easy as it seemed. We held ourselves back due to commitments. The singles have old-aged parents. The married ones have kids.
