Can
you relate to this statement? If so, looking for another
job is the solution ...or is it? Perhaps it might not
be the job itself but the personal challenges
that are
causing you to hate your job. If this is true, it's more likely that the same problems will follow you to your next
employer.
Who wants to quit their job, get a new one,
and within a few months—or even weeks—start feeling the
same way they did with their previous employer? I don't. You'll just be going back to square one.
Asking
yourself the following questions may help you to discover if
leaving your current employer is the right thing to do or
not. Finding answers to these
questions can help you put
things into perspective before making the decision to call
it quits.
1. What led me to hate my job?
2. Why is my job no longer inspiring?
3. Why do I feel that leaving will solve all of my problems?
It’s
no secret that today’s job market is tight and the
decisions you make about your career are not something to
take lightly. You want to make sure that
leaving your
employer is a comfortable and sound decision. Leaving
your employer may lead to great disappointment rather than
career fulfillment if not
carefully thought out first.
What
a waste if you were to discover that you hate your new-found
job after spending time preparing your resume and cover
letter, researching companies,
investing time and money
to mail out your resume, and posting your resume on the
Internet. Why? Because you’re back to
square one—and faced with the
same challenges you had at
your last job anyway.
It’s
very important that you look at the big picture—not bits
and pieces—before making your decision to quit. A
few reasons why people want to leave their job is because
they feel they’re being dumped on, they don’t
get chosen to work on the exciting projects, someone else
gets the promotion they feel they deserved, or their salary is nothing
compared to what they feel they’re worth.
Let’s
try to see if we can come up with some answers. Let’s
analyze the situation of feeling dumped on. First,
ask yourself why you’re being dumped on. Is
it because the company is short-staffed, because you’re
a “yes” person who won’t say no because
you’re afraid of ruffling feathers, or is it that
you have so many other on-going projects that it might truly be
a matter of managing your time well?
After
answering these questions, what can you do to change your
situation? If you’re the “yes” person,
why do you fear you’ll ruffle feathers? Have
you actually tried to say no to a request that someone else
could easily take on? If not, why not give it a try? You might be surprised to discover that, if you hold out, maybe someone
else will step up to the plate instead.
Again,
evaluate your circumstances and try to resolve the issues
at hand before making the decision to look for another job. Finding solutions could just turn the job you hate back into the one you loved long ago. If you find that you still
hate your job after giving it some serious thought, analyzing your
situation, and putting forth every effort to make it work,
then maybe it is time to move on.
