Top 5 – Signs You Need A New Job
Top 5 – Signs You Need A New Job
I’m writing a little sires on Top 5s. I’ll write my top 5s on various topics and I encourage you to write yours.
Sometimes you need to switch gigs. And you may not know it. yes""> Because it is a pain to look for jobs and hard to
switch. But sometimes you need
intervention and need to move on – here’s 5 signs to look for:
1 – You literally sleep with your blackberry – Not on the table next to you. But it’s in the
bed. You’ve crossed the line. Go back to start. This is too much.
2 – You’re the last one left. So you came to work with a certain cohort. 5-10 people roughly joined at the same
time as you. You did cool work, it
was fun, you learned a lot. It is
3, 5, 10 years later. Everyone
else has left and changed jobs 2-3 times.
You are still doing the same exact thing.
3 – You start talking about the glory days. You’ve turned work into a version of talking about the high school football glory days.yes""> You talk a lot about how great the office was 3, 5, 7 years
ago and how things worked so much better
4 – Your program has changed names more than 3 times. Gone through more than 3 acronyms. To appear cooler, hipper, newer, etc
5 – You’ve officially learned all the acronyms. It all actually makes sense. So well that you start referring to the 4 times that same acronym was used and all the
program names.
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Comment by Kanika Tolver on September 5, 2011 at 11:14pm -
One sign is you are simply unhappy and unfulfilled.
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Comment by Deena Larsen on September 5, 2011 at 10:13am -
2--Actually, if you can grow within the same job then I don't thinnk that applies. I've nurtured my writing career over the 20 years to show our agency how to get onto the web (in 1991--I cringe a bit at that site now), how to use social media, how to reach audiences, what documents are important and what ones we can scrap, etc.
So, sure, if the job doesn't grow with you, or you don't grow with the job, then go. But sometimes you can make the place work for you for a long time.
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Comment by Hans Hinners on March 16, 2011 at 4:04pm -
Sheldon - You are too right. I felt my pager for 6 months after leaving that uber-stressful 24/7 job.
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Comment by Sheldon Smith on July 12, 2010 at 10:23am -
Here's one to add: You feel your Blackberry vibrate while you're at home, only to find out your not even wearing it.
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Comment by Candace Riddle on April 29, 2010 at 10:45pm -
Hmmm ... 1, 4, and 5 apply. Good thing I'm moving in a few weeks for a new job.
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Comment by Suzette Kettenhofen on March 18, 2010 at 7:18am -
6 - You have been patiently awaiting that promised pay increased with every new job responsibility added to your already full plate for years.
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Comment by Ingrid Koehler on March 16, 2010 at 12:08pm -
Sign number 6 - you immediately click on the post titled "Top 5 signs you need a new job"
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Comment by Kathleen Smith on March 16, 2010 at 8:29am -
It is important to realize which of these "traits" is your trait and which one is reflective of your job. We many times carry the bad habits and feelings from one job to the next believing it is the job, supervisor or the team when it actuality it is us. Maybe we are unhappy or mayve we truly don't know what we want to do but are just doing something because it was what we were supposed to do.
It also comes down to deciding what you are good at and what makes you happy. The two don't necessarily go together. Just because you do something well, does not mean that you love doing it.
An old dharma saying, says find out:
what you do well, and love
what you do well and don' love
what you don't do well and love
what you don't do well and don't love
Finding the answers is actually very easy and clears up alot of confusion.
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Comment by Karen Freidt on March 15, 2010 at 12:11am -
Believing in what you do is essential too. Nothing is more depressing than seeing someone make a career out of talking about how much they hate their job. Call them on it. Help them think differently or find a job they might like better. It can work out for all. I have seen it happen. There are plenty of opportunities out there for all of us! Life's too short to not care about what you do everyday.
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Comment by Meghan Harvey on March 14, 2010 at 10:21pm -
OMG. My last office job, before becoming self-employed, was THIS exactly. Sometimes I'd have to fish through my purse for 10 minutes to find the business card with the most recent name change on it... LOL
I was never so happy to leave a job!
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