26% of Workers Regret Leaving Their Jobs During the Great Resignation. Do These Things to Avoid Being One of Them

MSN ^ | October 17, 2022 | Maurice Backman

[DoodleBob]

If you've been thinking about quitting your job, you're in good company. Joblist reports that almost 48 million Americans quit a job in 2021.

But now, some are starting to regret that choice. In fact, in a recent survey, Joblist found that 26% of workers aren't happy with their decision to quit a job.

Now, you may have different reasons for wanting to leave your job. Maybe you're unhappy with your pay. Or maybe your salary is decent enough, but you find the work you do boring and uninspiring. You may even be thinking of quitting to escape a group of colleagues who are too competitive and cutthroat for your taste.

All of these are understandable reasons for bidding a job adieu. But the last thing you want to do is quit your job and regret it later. So to that end, take these three steps first.

[DoodleBob]

I know of one former colleague who expressed "buyers remorse" before he left our workplace. This came after the colleague heard horror stories from someone who left his soon-to-be new employer.

No company is perfect, and many workplaces have sniveling little twerps (often in senior management) who can make the place "unbearable" as you make close to six figures. Then you join a gleaming new employer, only to find that place is...yup, filled with sniveling little twerps as well, except NOW you don't have a power base.

If employers are about to layoff people because of the economy, you don't want to be LIFO.

[joesbucks]

I retired in sept. 2020. Don’t regret it one bit. Didn’t hate the work. Didn’t hate the people. Hated the “have to” part it. Have to do it their way. Do lunch on their schedule. Have to take time off when they allow it. I very much enjoy my downtime and doing things on my schedule.

[Spok]

Work ethic is associated with white Christians and is therefore evil. The Russian communists motivate people to work with threats of prison, in China they just shoot you. Coming soon to your work place.

[rb22982]

I left my job last fall for another one with a ~25% total compensation bump (15% base/bonus bump, 50% more stock comp). Not perfect but overall pleased with the switch. Just have another 3.5 years for my initial grants to fully vest and then retirement time!

[kosciusko51]

I finally switched jobs this spring after being with my former employer for quite some time. I moved from a split management/engineering position to pure engineering.

Better pay, less paperwork, less stress, and doing more of what I like to do.

So far a win-win.

[VTenigma]

In a few months people will be crawling on their knees for work and it won’t be because of voluntary separation.

[WKUHilltopper]

I probably retired a couple years too soon. After “50,000 emails and voice mails a day” (LOL), I find myself trying to figure out what to do. I swore once I retired I would sleep all day. I wind up getting up at 4am. Ha!

[T.B. Yoits]

One, it's MSN so it's dubious at best. Two, even if it was close to true, that's 74% who left their jobs and don't regret it.

[dfwgator]

In a few months people will be crawling on their knees for work and it won’t be because of voluntary separation.

Yep.

[joma89]

Agreed. The other side of every fence is astroturf. I take the tact that if you pay me more, and I work less, I will move since I know every company has their fair share of twerps.

[MotorCityBuck]

That has got to one of the Stupidest things I’ve read on this site, and that is saying something. Idiot.

[ground_fog]

I learned in 2008 how hard it is to find a job after being out of the workforce. After 6 months, you are persona non grata. Went from a six figure tech career to 12 bucks and hour. I eventually started a trading business. Never made it back to tech.

Didn’t leave by choice though.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Which Also Means That 74% of Workers DON’T Regret Leaving Their Jobs During the Great Resignation.

[dfwgator]

Always easier to find a job when you already have one.

[knarf]

It is in American DNA, along with an almost arrogant love of liberty and freedom, the indwelt spirit to work.

I don't think it is a generalization to say that it is America, and more specifically, and under an acute microscope . . .

. . . the American workers' tax dollars that have time and time again bailed out every nation on the globe at one time or another.

We cherish land ownership and freedom above all else and have learned (been taught by our fathers), that the only way to have things is to work for them.

Work generates wealth and wealth in the possession of a moral entity does nothing but good things.

We have an increasingly growing population of males that either never learned to work or traded it off for government largess.

What kind of work mentality or morality can these males (intentionally avoiding "men"), pass on to their children ?

They can't.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Uh...you do understand he is just sarcastically stating the Leftist world view, right?

My company has let several of them go over the summer because they all thought being made to do actual work was some kind of evil right wing plot.

[MotorCityBuck]

Lol, and Amen brother.
My current job I got more emails, texts , phone calls & Teams Meetings than I’ve had I’m 40 year career. Don’t get me started on the 5 million Apps, and software updates needed everyday.😉

[MotorCityBuck]

B*llsh*t. I read exactly what he said. Half the people I've worked with my 40 year career aren't White, or Christian and they work hard, and am happy to call them my coworkers, and friends.
The comment stands on its own. Bigoted, ignorant and Stupid. You got anymore corrects to make?

[Larry Lucido]

Just show up the next Monday morning like you never quit. No one will notice.