How do you know its time to change jobs?
If you get up in the morning and feel drained of energy and unmotivated to get up for another day of work.
Sometimes it’s about “Sunday Monday Blues” or an exhausting weekend that prevents us from starting the new day. But if you feel that it repeats itself, then it is probably a real and prolonged burnout from the place of employment, from the financial stress and the lack of purpose in the career.
When you are in these feelings for a long time, I recommend that you don’t ignore the warning lights because they can take a toll on you mental and emotional well being.
Here are some signs that will tell you that it is time to make an occupational change
A preoccupation with the lives of others:
You engage in comparisons with other people, interested in their salary, their responsibilities and skills and inquire about their workplace. You are probably dreaming about other professions that seem more desirable and promising and frustrated about earlier choices.
A general and specific feeling of dissatisfaction with your workplace –
If you spend your time at your job mostly seeing the flaws and deficiencies in the way the place is managed, you are finding yourself resentful of the employer, colleagues and the general conditions, your difficulty may be more a reflection of you and where you are at at this point than the company itself.
Feeling unappreciated by the employer –
If you devoting yourself to your work, working crazy hours, giving your utmost to your job at the price of spending time with your family or leisure and all this isn’t enough for your boss, and you feel unappreciated and undervalued, you maybe in the right field but not in the right place. I am surprised to learn often how adults are in “semi abusive situation but are not brave enough to confront it or leave that environment, and sometimes believe they need to change careers when perhaps they just need to change “bosses”
Your job or field does not match your occupational needs
Know your occupational needs. If you are an independent, free thinker in a position which gives you not enough autonomy or creativity, you are likely to be frustrated. If however, you need to work in structured environment and the position seems amorphous with unclear expectations you may need to communicate this to your employer or find yourself a position which answers your needs.
Focus a great deal on ‘what if” scenarios
If you have a sense of failure and keep replaying past scenarios and turning points in choosing your career believing you made the wrong choice. If you hear yourself saying “if only” or “what if I had chosen…” it is time to think more about the choice ahead of you. I don’t believe we should invest in the past wondering if our decision was right or wrong, I believe at that time we made the best decision possible for us with the resources we had then. However when facing the future we shouldn’t stay in the rut and just vent, we can now take control using new resources and perspectives available to us, assess and evaluate who we are now and what we want , and go for it . If you imagine yourself 20/30/40 years down the line, will you then be sorry that now you didn’t take the plunge and find yourself a meaningful career that you dreamed of now?
If you identify partially or fully with what is written here then this is the time to start a new path, make a change and start a new career.
It is possible at any age and in any field – to live a valuable and meaningful professional life.
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