Always ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow
Firas Msheik
Managing Partner @ Top Notch Consultancy - Recruitment | Professional Training | Management Consultancy
One of the most famous quotes said is "Always ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow".
Many of us reach a point in our careers that we know it's time to move on from a job. Whether it's to pursue a new career opportunity, improve your salary or leave a dissatisfying position, it's important to quit on as positive a note as possible. All of us have been in several jobs where we are paid well but feel extremely stressful at work due to a negative work environment which is a powerful element that shapes your work enjoyment, your work relationships, and your work processes.
Liz Ryan a former Fortune 500 HR SVP and the world’s most widely read workplace thought leader mentioned in Forbes, 10 signs that you're in the right job and another 10 signs that you aren't.
10 signs you're in the right job:
1. You enjoy your work, at least most of the time. You get so immersed in your work that you're often shocked to realize it's already time to go home.
2. You like your co-workers. They make you laugh, they reinforce you and you know you can count on them (and vice versa).
3. Your boss is smart, ethical and competent.
4. You like the company's mission and culture. The organization suits you.
5. You know that if you have something important to say at work, people will listen.
6. You know what you're learning at work. You can see your resume growing, and you can feel your confidence increasing over time.
7. Almost every week you experience something new.
8. Your boss and the organization you work for respect your life outside of work.
9. You are fairly paid, and your job title reflects the scope of your responsibilities.
10. When people ask you "Do you like your job?" you don't hesitate to say "Yes!"
10 Signs You're Not In the Right Job:
1. You don't feel secure in your role. The job could disappear at any time -- and if it did, you'd be disappointed but not surprised.
2. You don't like or trust your co-workers.
3. Your boss barely knows you as a person, and doesn't acknowledge or thank you for your contributions.
4. You know you're underpaid and/or overworked.
5. You don't see a career path in your current organization.
6. Your work is grueling, boring or a combination of both.
7. You dread your annual performance review because you know your manager is going to pick away at insignificant mistakes you made, and ignore your contributions and hard work.
8. Your company doesn't see you as a human being -- just a production unit, interchangeable with anybody else who might have the role.
9. You dread Sunday nights because that's when it hits you that you have to get up and go back to work on Monday morning.
10. Your trusty gut knows that you're in the wrong job.
Your choice is not just between your current job and some other job in a different department at your current employer. Setting your long term career goals will make it easier to asses whether you're in the right place or no. The whole world is available to you. Stop and decide what you really want then take a step in that direction.