When you know, you know – that it’s time to go

I’ve left jobs intentionally and unintentionally over the years.

It’s pretty much always better to leave intentionally. When you want to. When you have another job lined up. When it’s not a surprise. When your manager doesn’t put a last-minute virtual meeting your calendar, and they show up with HR, and your heart starts racing, and you immediately realize what is happening. Yeah, NOT like that!

So why leave a great company intentionally? Especially when…

• People who work there now – love working there.
• People who used to work there – loved working there.
• People who were recently laid off – wish they were still working there. #techlayoffs
• People are doing whatever they can to get a job there.

BECAUSE… when it’s not a great fit for YOU, you just know.

[The reasons are my own. You will have your own reasons. No need to overshare.]

I just want you to think about it. Why are you still there – if you don’t love it and it doesn’t love you?

But, what if you can’t afford to leave? (I mostly can’t, but for my own sake, I needed to anyway.)

Why stay somewhere that you don’t fit in or that isn’t a right fit for you?

That’s not a rhetorical question. Why would anyone stay somewhere that doesn’t fit?!

• Money?
• Purpose?
• Boredom?
• Connection?
• Enjoying the fight?
• Escaping something?
• Future possibility of success?
• Eliminate gaps in your resume?
• Embarrassed to admit you were wrong?

To be honest, it’s really a terrible time to be looking for a new gig in tech sales. Again, #techlayoffs.

But it’s also a great time to be looking for a new gig in #techsales.

So much #opportunity. So much #newtechnology. So much #funtobehad.

Have you ever left a job without your next step in place first?

Are you working somewhere that is not a good fit? If so, why?