Posted on 10/22/2022 7:41:46 AM PDT by 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.
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I retired in Dec 2021. Loving it.
Sitting in a line to get into Yellowstone? I would love that. Way better than in and out.
Dinosaur here...
Same employer for ~40 years...
Don’t even have a resume...
At one loyalty to an employer was a plus.
These days however, you can stay too long at one employer, if you don’t show periodic increases in responsibility. That’s every bit as much a red flag as job hopping.
Me, too. In March. I would say that the economy has made me uneasy, but I expect to weather through. Haven’t had to pull any money from savings yet, and looking at rearranging some things early next year for more comfortable positions in investments.
I was headed down that road until covid hit, and I found out how many people would violate my rights and treat me like a pariah just to appease the CDC and POTATUS.
Grab a part time job it will make you happier, I retired 3 years ago was bored to tears picked up a part time job $18.00 an hour at Home Depot work no more than 20 hours a week and I LOVE it there great place to work.. The extra money really helps too in Bidens economy PLUS I no longer have to pay for the supplemental Medicare I get it through my employer another HUGE savings!!
This is by far the best my life has ever been.
Great vantage point to watch the world implode while my redemption draweth nigh.
If you are good, most employers will happy to have you back. You are trained, after all, and there are no on-boarding costs.
If you aren’t good, they were happy to have you leave so they didn’t have to pay any severance benefits.
I’m with you. I hated all the office politics everywhere. Hated the insane intense drive to meet quarterly sales goals. Hated incompetent bosses. Hated the electric power industry getting so politicized with execs kissing Green Butt. I literally could not work in the highly woke power industry any more, especially when it used to be run by technically competent people who didn’t have a political bone in their bodies.
I retired about 2016 and don’t regret it one bit. A neighbor retired in his late 50s and took several years off, but is back to doing some consulting gigs. His stress level is back up. I would have a hard time getting back into it.
I hope by putting that in quotes I covered myself, or I'll reveht back to my native Bawstin dialect n' staht REALLY mouthin' off !
Yup. Red flags. But what languages do you code in?
1. Volunteer. All sorts of organizations need help. My wife donates lots of hours to the local Humane Society.
2. Buy a new home somewhere that needs lots of work. We did that and now, after five years, it’s getting to where we really like it with all of my improvements. There’s still lots to do.
3. Travel a bit. We bought our place in the Inland Northwest so we could have a close jumping-off point to the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the USA. We are enjoying short trips away.
4. Buy a new toy — we bought a neighbor’s used ski boat because they switched to a lazier patio / pontoon boat.
5. Have lots of dinner parties during lovely summer evenings.
6. Get back into sports you once loved. My wife got two really cheap senior season passes to a couple of nearby ski slopes.
It takes a couple years to fully decompress from those 50,000 emails and voicemails per day and stop waking up in a cold sweat “Did I miss that deadline? What’s on the docket today?”
I retired from a major university because the wokeness was overwhelming and teaching business (capitalism) to students who recorded everything and claimed to be socialists was a colossal waste of time. Interestingly, I was the only capitalist in my department. The rest of the faculty were hard core lefties who hated capitalism. I got out just before you couldn’t say a full sentence without offending someone.
I always began my Financial Accounting course by having my students repeat “paper or plastic” or “welcome to Walmart” or “would you like fries with that.” Then I could point out that the people who knew how to follow the money were in the air conditioned office earning four times as much money.
I guess you haven’t seen the war between meeting project/product goals vs the HR woke crap. It’s like the employer is at war with itself and your heart/mind is the battlefield. Maintaining work ethic in the face of HR DEI / CRT … his newish and personal ethics come into play more and more. I think that’s what is being stated.
“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.”
Didn’t leave by choice though.”
My Grand Dad, Uncles and my Mother taught me to never quit your current job until you have another job to go to.
I have passed that reality on to peers, relatives and younger relatives. The smart ones listened and had jobs to go to when they left a bad situation.
Those, who didn’t listen, often, had a hard time getting employed by a good new firm/boss.
A younger relative, who had lived in the Pacific NW for 20 years wanted to move back here without a job here. We convinced him to get a job back here and a place to live before moving back.
He did that and after a year, the company he worked for here, was bought out. He very wisely got another and better job, while still employed with that company. Those, who stayed with that company and left later without jobs, often had tough times getting employed. Several moved back to their parents’ homes for awhile.
You can try the Coast Guard. Lot of tradition there.
I quit my job in 2017 after 32 years after going through 3 company buyouts. The last company that bought us made a good company terrible. When they brought out their new bonus program, I called it quits. It was another carrot in front of the horse gimmicks. They would only pay the bonus one time per year and they could end it any time they chose without paying out anything, and they could decide who would or would not get the bonus.
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