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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Article talks about people just quitting their jobs. It’s much easier to get a job if you have a job. Are they quitting with no intention of working? Who will feed them? (the last bit is sarcasm)
I worked in a woke environment, but learned to survive while getting little done for “the cause”. I just sort of numbed myself to stuff like that.
I wonder how the HR folks actually contribute to a company’s bottom line. They often seem to impede work rather than enhance it.
In the military, mission used to be everything. All personnel not directly working to accomplish it, should only exist to serve those that accomplish it. That overriding priority, making profit as a business or winning wars as the military, seems to be secondary these days.
If HR isn’t improving the bottom line, they are a drain. You can probably say the same thing about the “studies” degree graduates. How does someone with a feminist studies degree, for example, produce anything good?
Can I be a land guy?
Somebody’s gotta unhook the boat 🚢 from the thing!!
It was getting harder and harder to do. At my last company, HR held a “Milk & Cookies” event for all employees...to honor homo Supervisor in San Francisco Harvey Milk. I don’t think anybody showed up — who has time for milk & cookies. And even in ultra-liberal Silicon Valley, that might have been over the top. Who wants to gulp cream while honoring a homo?
I changed jobs in 2021 and glad I did. Even with a 25% pay raise I’m not doing any better than I was in 2020 thanks to Biden and inflation. The only thing I worry about now is Biden damaging the economy to the point where there’s a depression and there’s massive unemployment.
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No problem.
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.
This reminds me of someone who told me, do you have 10 years of experience, or do you have 1 year of experience 10 times? The reasoning is along the lines of what you are saying, that job candidates with increasing levels of responsibility in their careers, will get the best job offers.
Nope! A common problem among old retired farmers I’ve talked to is they think they can sleep in when retired. Surprise! They’ve trained their entire life to get up early, they’re stuck with it! At least there are naps now though!
Lol. I’m the king of naps.
I am a big fan of naps myself! I’ve got about 15 years to retirement, but I work rotating shift schedules, so naps are my friend!
Across many friends and family members and my own experience, there is nowhere near a 26% regret rate, at any point in time or through the cycle.
Sometimes, it's clear that a divorce is needed, and resumes are sent, interviews are had, and a job (or career) change is executed. When a lot of thought and deliberation goes into a jump, it's usually successful.
This time, it's different. I believe the pandemic conditioned people to feel they don't need co-workers, a culture, or anything except their Maslows, TikTok, and wifi. The return to office effort, which is more about sustaining a corporate culture than anything else, is rejected by these newly-conditioned citizens. Off they go, for more money and 100% remote work.
Then, they realize that culture IS real AND they're not a good fit for their new employer who, with zillions in commercial real estate investment, WILL "adjust" their remote work promise, and make people return to the office. They're making more but feeling worse. The big problem, is their prior employer has replaced them, the economy is slowing down and the job market is cooling off, and they're stuck (for a while).
This corporate problem is tied to the American cultural problem. Many of us still believe in a national identity, one founded in life, liberty and property, the rule of law, respect for others' rights, and an understanding that you can always emigrate to Europe if you hate America.
Half of the nation detests everything in the prior sentence, and is working overtime to shred that national identity.
The Great Regret, is a harbinger for those who think life will be grand under statism. Except unlike with a job, there's no escape hatch.
How many of us actually did that?
Two months ago, I was a casualty of a reorganization. No problem, draw unemployment for 4 months, take it easy for four months.
So much for that plan. The HR director of a large real estate concern called me. I interviewed on a Wednesday, was hired on Friday, just finished my 3rd week.
Lunch catered once a week, great environment, camaraderie is high.
Very true, but it seems like the bad employers are coming out of the wood work these days. There has got to be a happy medium somewhere.
Yeah I hadn’t really pursued that as much after no luck a few years ago.
But I may try again. This ZipRecruiter thing is a joke. At least so far.
There’s two, maybe three possibilities that are on there.
They don't contribute at all. Most of what they do destroys productivity. They exist primarily because of our litigious society. Everything else they do other than deal with surly employees is to push leftist propaganda, because they don't have any actual skills.
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