Are You Serious – or Do You Seriously Need a New Job?

Are you just killing time in your current employment? If you are, it’s time to look for a new job! Remaining in a mundane job eats away at your happiness until you feel like you’re treading water and perhaps always will be. Here are the top 6 signs that you seriously need a new job:

1. You’ve been listening to the older employees – those nearing retirement who’ve been with the firm for 30 years – saying “I hate this job” for a few years and you recently started to think that yourself. Yes, it’s time to go – unless of course you want to be sitting there in 30 years looking and sounding as pathetic as they do.
2. You barely tolerate your boss – you know much more than they do, could run the business or department better than they do and their incompetence irritates you. This, my friend, is a recipe for disaster. Stay there much longer and you’ll start to work down to their level – after all, they don’t know what good work is so why should you put in your best effort? Pretty soon, you’ll begin to feel bad about yourself so get out now and go somewhere you’ll feel more positive and your best will be appreciated.
3. The alarm goes off at 5am even though you don’t have to start work until 9am. That’s because it’s going to take you three hours over coffee to convince yourself to go in to work. During those three hours you consider taking a sick day, and wonder whether perhaps unemployment wouldn’t be so bad – you could move to cheaper accommodation and eat rice, right? Get out of here! You’ve got options and if you weren’t so stressed you’d see them. Get online and start looking for your new job now!
4. You’re taking so many days off that the other employees don’t recognize you when you do go in. Go while the going is good. Getting fired won’t help you find something new. It tends to be easier to find a new job when you’re already employed – that, and your new employer is unlikely to ring your current employer for a reference, which is just as well if you’re on the top of the sick leave charts.
5. Your boss is a bully, or is rude and arrogant, and you’ve been tolerating their behaviour for quite some time. This job isn’t going to end well. Whether you leave now or in a year’s time the boss is still going to hit the roof so sooner is better than later. Go for a new job now.
6. You’re not doing what you want to be doing. You’re working as an apprentice motor mechanic when you’d rather be doing graphic design…but there are so many graphic designers out there it’ll be hard to break in. Doh! Don’t listen to the negative people. Study your passion on weekends and at night and start making contacts in that line of work. You could be in your dream new job in a year or so – as opposed to still being an apprentice mechanic and wishing you were something else.

If you want to make something happen you’re going to need to take some positive steps towards making that happen – and the first thing to do if you’re unhappy in your job is to make the decision that you need to find a new job!