5 Good Reasons to Quit Your Job
9 May 2014
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How to know when it’s time to change jobs? Are there warning signs to watch out for, and if so, what are the signs that should put you on the right track…?
1. When you have a bad reputation
You have worked very hard to get there, to refine and affirm your skills and establish your reputation. However, sometimes, certain events cause negative changes (prolonged absence, failed project, refused promotion, difficult restructuring, etc.) and your reputation may be damaged, tarnished. Since it is even more difficult - if not unthinkable - to regain your past brilliance, a fresh start, elsewhere, in another company, may prove to be a perfectly honorable, adequate and positive solution, even leading to the best results.
2. When the company is in great difficulty
Of course, your loyalty as an employee is honorable, but continuing to work in a failing company is more akin to professional suicide than honor. It is long and laborious to find a job and even more difficult to find a job after a period of unemployment.
3. When motivation and challenge are lacking
If you feel that your career is stagnating, that the stimulation is cruelly lacking, that you cannot go further in the direction you are currently following, it may be time to look for another position. Learning and progressing being the key words of personal and professional fulfillment, what is the point of continuing on a path that no longer really motivates you and that no longer challenges you positively, in relation to yourself? “To cease learning is to cease growing.”
4. When the environment becomes unbearable
If your work environment weighs too heavily on you, if it has become more difficult to manage than your daily tasks and files, why not consider exploring other professional directions? While it is true that toxic colleagues and bosses exist everywhere, it remains that there is no obligation to impose this kind of ordeal on yourself if you can do things a little differently.
5. When your mind no longer wants to
Your Sunday evenings have become stressful and depressing…? You have back pain from the heavy weight of this work? You get up in the morning, gray and dark like a winter sky? It is, once again, surely time to pack your bags and start looking for a new job. If you no longer have the desire, if you no longer see the “engine” and the enthusiasm at all, there is no point in struggling. Remember that a happy employee is more efficient than another, more dynamic, more competent… More in their place!
The ReKrute.com Team
1. When you have a bad reputation
You have worked very hard to get there, to refine and affirm your skills and establish your reputation. However, sometimes, certain events cause negative changes (prolonged absence, failed project, refused promotion, difficult restructuring, etc.) and your reputation may be damaged, tarnished. Since it is even more difficult - if not unthinkable - to regain your past brilliance, a fresh start, elsewhere, in another company, may prove to be a perfectly honorable, adequate and positive solution, even leading to the best results.
2. When the company is in great difficulty
Of course, your loyalty as an employee is honorable, but continuing to work in a failing company is more akin to professional suicide than honor. It is long and laborious to find a job and even more difficult to find a job after a period of unemployment.
3. When motivation and challenge are lacking
If you feel that your career is stagnating, that the stimulation is cruelly lacking, that you cannot go further in the direction you are currently following, it may be time to look for another position. Learning and progressing being the key words of personal and professional fulfillment, what is the point of continuing on a path that no longer really motivates you and that no longer challenges you positively, in relation to yourself? “To cease learning is to cease growing.”
4. When the environment becomes unbearable
If your work environment weighs too heavily on you, if it has become more difficult to manage than your daily tasks and files, why not consider exploring other professional directions? While it is true that toxic colleagues and bosses exist everywhere, it remains that there is no obligation to impose this kind of ordeal on yourself if you can do things a little differently.
5. When your mind no longer wants to
Your Sunday evenings have become stressful and depressing…? You have back pain from the heavy weight of this work? You get up in the morning, gray and dark like a winter sky? It is, once again, surely time to pack your bags and start looking for a new job. If you no longer have the desire, if you no longer see the “engine” and the enthusiasm at all, there is no point in struggling. Remember that a happy employee is more efficient than another, more dynamic, more competent… More in their place!
The ReKrute.com Team
