Am I Doing the Right Thing By Quitting?

Am I Doing the Right Thing By Quitting? | JobSearchTV.com

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter examines the feelings you may have about resigning from your job that cause you to wonder whether you are doing the right thing.

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I want to talk with you about that feeling that often shows up at the time you have to resign from your job you know that feeling that translates into ‘am I doing the right thing?’

Well, 98 times out of 100 you are. two percent of cases that I’ve tracked when I review with someone, what is going on and what that hesitancy is all about … there’s a logical reason for it.

Now it’s natural to be afraid at the time that you’re going to quit. After all, you’ve cutting off a lot of ties that you’ve had with other people that you’ve known for a while, that you’ve developed relationships with,  abandoning them, going to another place where despite the fact that the job may be interesting to you and the people are nice, it’s starting over again. That creates some apprehension. All very natural.

My encouragement for you is to take five minutes and examine whether you are doing the right thing, feeling to see if there’s any concrete reason for why it exists. If there’s a concrete reason like you know there’s something wrong with this job, that my bs detector (that’s the smell test) causes you to have concerns about that issue with the potential employer, by simply calling them and saying ‘I had a question for you.’ Once you hear the answer you can feel comfortable resigning from your job now.

I want to be clear, things will be different there. It is going to be a change. You know you’re going to walk in on Monday morning probably and nothing will be the same. That is absolutely a certain thing.

When all is said and done, there’s a reason why you want to quit your job. There were feelings that you had and opinions that you had that said it was time to go that shouldn’t be overwhelmed by momentary fear. Changing jobs is probably the right course of action for you to take. After all, your employer will always do the right thing for them and cut bait with you, even though it may be hard for them but they have to look out for their shareholders and so do you.

You have to look out for the people who are important to you. You have to look out for yourself and your interests and your needs and the next organization is going to bring you closer to many of your goals. Don’t let momentary fear and apprehension cause you to hesitate and miss out or completely blow an opportunity that will serve you well by pausing and being fearful and asking yourself the question, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’

There’s a story I told in another video about how lions hunt gazelle. The short version of it is lions find it impossible to catch gazelles so they have a system in place that allows them to do it. Old lions will hide and the young lions will drive the gazelle in the direction of the old lions. The result is just as soon as the gazelle come upon the old lions, the old lions stand up, roar, and cause the gazelle to be frightened. That causes them to turn around and rush back into the teeth of the young lions who kill them and eat them

The moral of this story is to go towards your fears rather than away from them. In most cases, doing that in almost all cases, doing that will really serve your interest best.

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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2400 episodes.

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