5 Good Reasons To Change Jobs This Year
Previously I wrote about some bad reasons to change jobs. However, there are good reasons to change jobs too. It’s no small thing to conduct a job search and change jobs so it can be difficult to know if you’re changing jobs for the right reasons.
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So how do you know if you’re making the right decision? Here are 5 good reasons to change jobs.
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With a new year starting you may be considering changing jobs.However, when you begin your job search you’ll begin to ask yourself, “Should I really start looking for a new job or is my current job still working for me?”
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So how do you know if it’s time to start looking for a new job? There are good reasons and bad reasons for changing jobs so here are five reasons you never want to be the primary factor when changing jobs.
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Gary was always good at fixing things. He could take a car engine apart and put it back together. If your washing machine had broken he could fix it.
In high school Gary was always in the auto shop classroom and never in the library. He was that guy.
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However, when the time came he thought he needed to go to college in order to get a good job.
He went through college hating every minute of it, wishing he could spend more time refurbishing the 1969 Chevy pickup waiting in the garage at home.
After graduating from college with a low GPA and a headache, Gary went looking for a job.
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Ultimately, choosing a career direction comes down to one thing.
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What do you want to do?
That’s it.
You can take all the personality assessments in the world, go through tons of exercises, and work with coaches.
However, when all is said and done you have to make a choice and move toward a goal.
You may say, “but I still don’t know what I want to do”.
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We all have decisions we make on a daily basis.
Do I go to Starbucks or Peete’s?
Should I wear the blue shirt or the green shirt?
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What about big decisions?
Read MoreI Hate My Job! How to Survive Your Workday While You Look for a New Job
As you drive to work you wonder, “How am I going to get through today?”
You hate your job but right now it’s the only thing standing between you and the homeless shelter downtown.
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You park your car, turn off the ignition and you begin to feel the zest for life being slowly drained from your inner being. Like bathwater after you pull the plug from the drain.
Sound familiar?
Read MoreHow to Get Rid of That Job You Hate Once and For All
You did all the right things.
You went to school, got a job with a good company, and set yourself on a career path your parents would be proud of.
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Or maybe you just took the first job you could find because those student loans were coming due.
Either way, you took a job and now you hate it.
You wonder how this happened. How did you end up doing something every day that sucks the zest for life out of you?
The problem is you don’t know what to do. You don’t know what else you want to do. Even if you did know, you don’t know how to get there.
The good news is there is hope.
Read More5 Essential Steps to Landing Your Dream Job
The best way to open this post would be to have a meaningful story about how my ebook 5 Essential Steps to Landing Your Dream Job was inspired by the night I couldn’t sleep so I watched the J.K. Rowling episode on the Biography channel when she goes back to the apartment where she lived pre Harry Potter and breaks down in tears as she ponders how far she has come. 
I stayed up all night, wrote my manifesto then looked around my house and thought, “I wonder how my sunshine yellow walls will look on the Biography channel someday?” However, I’m afraid I don’t have a meaningful story like that to draw you in.
Sure, I went through a fairly dramatic and traumatic career change, sold my house, moved in with my in-laws, started a business, dissolved a business, quit three jobs in one year and eventually found my way again.
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