5 Signs It’s Time To Quit Your Job

Originally posted on Relish Growth.

This post will share five signs that it is time to quit your job.

I recently gave in my week’s notice at my current job, and I never felt so relieved. I’ve been at this job for over two years, which is overdue. I should have left after a year. But because I didn’t, I began to gradually resent the job the more I stayed. Plus, the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t help matters.

I should have used the lockdown period to find a new job, but I didn’t. Instead, I poured all my energy into my blogs, resulting in a nice side income I get every month. So, I’m not so hard on myself due to that.

But here I am post-pandemic lockdown and about to leave my job on a whim because I have had enough. If you’re struggling to read the signs that it is time to quit your job, this post is for you.

Here Are Five Signs You Might Be Over-looking That It’s Time To Quit Your Job.

In no particular order;

There’s zero to no career progression

This is probably one of the reasons why I’m leaving the company. After about a year in my current role, I tried to swap departments to progress myself, to no avail.

While I could learn a few transferable skills for about six months, it was cut short when we had to go into lockdown, and the company subsequently became short-staffed.

Once again, I became stuck in my current department. That should have been the sign to leave right there and then.

So, if you’re currently at a company and there are no opportunities for progression in your career, then it’s time to leave.

You struggle to get up in the morning.

When I started my job, I was always looking forward to getting up in the morning, going to work and enjoying working with my colleagues. But, about a while ago, I started to detest getting up early. I would easily get up to catch an early train for my city break or some event, but when it came to working, it was a problem.

This was when I realized that I wasn’t enjoying my job anymore. Some of my co-workers made the job a bit bearable. Other than that, it was a complete struggle.

If it is not the winter season and you never look forward to going to work in the mornings, then maybe it is time to quit.

You don’t feel fulfilled by your job.

For someone that started a career at age 19 and subsequently a business at 22, I have experienced career fulfilment, and I know what it feels like. So, if I’m at a job and I don’t feel like I’m making any difference, I know I wouldn’t feel fulfilled.

For a lot of us, our jobs make up a significant aspect of our lives and, as such, determine how happy and content the rest of our lives will be. Personally, I like to know that whatever little responsibilities I’m doing contribute to a greater good or, even better, make a customer somewhere happy.

Again, after running a business and directly impacting several small business owners, you’ll always want to make a difference.

So, if your job doesn’t make you proud and accomplished, it may be time to quit.

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You get unnecessarily annoyed or stressed.

Some work environments are so internally toxic that you might not realize it until an incident happens. And then you suddenly wonder how this has been going on for so long.

I recently had an issue with a co-worker, which is completely unlike me, and it is safe to say that I went off. It wasn’t completely out of control, but it shocked a few people who witnessed the event. It was there and then that I decided to quit.

Ideally, I should have been upset by the incident, but I couldn’t ignore it and projected my feelings onto a co-worker in that outburst.

If you gradually start to feel unnecessarily irritable, then maybe your work environment is getting to you, and it may be time to quit.

The pay and benefits are not that great.

Every time you stay at a job for more than two years without a promotion, you lose out on a potential salary increase. This is why millennials are notorious for job-hopping instead of staying at a job, hoping and praying for an increase.

Then again, as you get older, you realize the importance of certain benefits like your pensions and how much they compound over time. So, it is time to jump ship if you’re at a company whose pension scheme isn’t that great. No hard feelings attached; you just need to plan for your future.

In Conclusion,

This week will be the last at my job. While I have mixed feelings about leaving a few of my favourite people behind, I’m super glad I can move to the next level of my career.

I hope you find this post as helpful as I did.