Of course you should quit your job!
Whether you were already looking, or you just realized how miserable you are,
if you are thinking about quitting your job,
and especially if you're thinking about quitting your job before you have
another job, this video is for you. Stay tuned.
Hello, and welcome back to my channel,
where I help you slay your career and cultivate the successful life you deserve.
If you're wondering whether you should quit your job,
especially if you should quit your job before you have another job lined up,
everyone right now is going to tell you a clear and resounding, "Nooooo!"
They want you to stay exactly where you are.
No matter how much you hate your job, how miserable it makes you.
Because after all, you're one of the lucky people who still has a job.
That's not the advice that I'm going to give you this video,
At least not necessarily. The reason why is I was actually in your shoes
during the 2008 recession.
And I did quit with no plan and no prospects.
In this video what I want to do is help you figure out if quitting your job is
the right thing to do,
especially if you're thinking about quitting your job before you actually have
another job.
And exactly what you need to do before you quit your job in order to make a
graceful exit. If you're ready to figure out, if you should quit your job,
smash that like button and let's get started.
Let's begin with the obvious right now,
you are probably here because you are thinking about quitting,
the job that you're at, but should you actually quit your job? Well,
I thought I would make a little JBTV quiz to help you figure it out.
Question one,
you wake up dreading going to work every single morning,
even if all it entails is getting out of bed and getting onto a zoom call.
Question number two, are you in the wrong job or at the wrong company?
Question number three, if you feel like you're in the wrong job, i.
s there an opportunity for you to make a transfer within your existing company?
And if there is, is that something that you actually want to do? Next question,
do you feel underpaid or underappreciated? Because you know,
if you can get more money for less problems,
you would be much happier in life or after everything that's just happened.
Did you realize you really want to work remotely,
or at least sometimes work remotely,
and you need to join a company that supports that path.
Maybe you realized what you really want is to go back to school full time.
Or maybe after all of this time and all of this effort,
you have finally realized that this job is a dead end.
That has absolutely no future opportunities for you.
Is it actually a really toxic workplace for you?
I do have a video if you need to know the signs, a link it down below.
And the final question I have is, is the company a sinking ship?
Is this a company that is struggling?
That is probably not going to be able to endure. Now of those boxes,
I want to know how many did you check? Put that into the comments down below.
I do actually have one more bonus, one that I don't want to get into right now.
But if you do watch all the way to the end of the video,
I'm going to share it there along with a personal story.
There isn't any steadfast rule that if you crossed five,
then you need to leave immediately.
But if you only cross three, maybe you can suffer it a little bit longer.
This quiz was really designed to get you thinking about your current
circumstance,
and for you to see if quitting your job is really the right next step for you.
And if it is the more boxes that you checked,
the chances are the more important it is for you to really look at getting your
next opportunity.
And in some cases for you to actually consider quitting your job
before you have another job now coming with a huge caveat,
I just want to make sure that you're aware of this.
I'm going to jump into the guidelines of things that you should consider.
If you are thinking about quitting your job without having another job.
But remember this is extremely personal. We are not one to one.
And even if we were, I would not be giving you an answer to this.
This is a decision that you need to make for yourself,
which leads us into the first indicator that maybe you should quit your job,
even if you don't have another job.
And that is that you don't have a sufficient time for search,
especially if you're in a role that is completely draining you because it's a
toxic work environment. It's a bad job for you.
Maybe you're having to work with a bully or a bad boss.
There's all sorts of reasons that you might end the day
feeling just really emotionally and mentally drained.
And the last thing that you can think of is actually applying for jobs.
If you have absolutely zero bandwidth to search for your
next opportunity at the end of the day,
you are not going to be able to get that next opportunity.
Here is a lot of people when I say looking for your next opportunity,
think about going online and applying for jobs,
but that is not the only job search strategy that is available.
You should also be focusing on your network and growing your network.
And there are so many ways to virtually network in the socially distance world
that we live in. And you can also focus on mechanisms that are actually going to
get you found by recruiters that are actually going to come to you with career
opportunities. That is actually the focus of my next video.
So if you haven't already click that subscription button plus a notification
bell, you definitely don't want to miss that one. However,
if you've already been doing all of the job of certain strategies
and they just are not working,
or you just don't even have time to do an interview,
then there's going to be some more things that you need to consider in order for
you to decide if you should quit your job without having another job lined up.
And the next thing is super obvious.
You need to make sure that you have the finances before you quit your job
without having another job in normal circumstances.
The general best practice here is having about 90 days of living expenses
before you make the leap. I would say right now that the more the merrier.
Depending on your role and everything like that,
having several months of expenses covered
in case you find yourself in an extended job search
is going to be something that is critically important.
If you do not have the financial stability to pay your rent,
to buy food next month, if you quit your job today,
you are not in a position where you are going to be able to quit your job until
you have something else lined up.
Now that doesn't say that you are without hope,
because even if you aren't quite in a position where you have the bandwidth to
actually search, while you're in that role,
you can start to put as much money away to save
for that rainy day so that you actually do a eventually accrue that.
And that should be a goal that everyone should just have.
Across their careers, and their lives in general.
There's one more thing that you need when you're trying to decide
if you should quit your job when you don't have another job lined up,
and that is,
do you have really effective job search strategies lined up.
No matter the economy that we're in,
having strategies that are going to skyrocket you to the top of the list of the
candidate pool
for any job that you actually want is extraordinarily important.
If your arsenal only includes applying for jobs,
you need to have more than that. Here's the thing,
especially when we are in a down economy where we are seeing the
jobless rate, unfortunately rise,
we find ourselves in an employers market.
Up until this whole situation hit, it was a candidates market.
And in some industries, and in some roles,
you honestly would have had to actively try to not get a job
in order to find yourself jobless for any extended period of time.
That's not where we are.
There are exceptional people who have found themselves
unwittingly
on the market as a result of massive layoffs that companies are doing
without any effective retention strategies for that top talent,
but they will even sit on the market if they don't have the right strategies in
place
to make sure that their prospective employer knows how incredible they
are. I cannot underemphasize how important this step is.
If you only zero on one thing from this video, make it this.
Now a couple of bonus tips that I wanted to throw into this video,
because hopefully now you have an idea.
If you should be hanging tight on activating a job search where you're currently
at, or if you should just be putting in your notice tomorrow,
before you actually put in your notice,
there's two things that I want you to make sure that you do,
depending on your role and your industry and those sorts of things.
When you put in your notice, that might be it. For example,
if you're in software sales and you put in your notice,
there's a very good chance that you're not going to be expected to work,
and they definitely don't want you logging into their CRM after you've handed in
your notice. So if you do have any personal assets on your work computer,
for some reason, say your email or local files,
make sure that you take those off and get those to yourself.
The other thing that I wanted to really make sure that you knew by the end of
this video is to make sure that you are making a gracious exit.
I know that when you hate your job,
when you're marching into your boss' office
or into the zoom to put in your notice,
and especially if you don't have another job lined up,
it is really tempting to go down in a blaze of glory,
resist this temptation, be gracious in your exit.
Because the way that you leave an organization says we more about you
than the way that they have treated you, no matter the amount of respect,
appreciation, and growth opportunity they have, or have not given to you.
And at the end of the day, your professional brand is everything.
You don't want to burn it down,
especially if it's for some job that you don't like,
for some company that you can stand,
for some jerk boss that you really hope you never have to see again. N.
ow I'd love to know from you.
Have you ever quit a job before having another job lined up?
Let me know in the comments, if you have.
One more bonus question that I actually wanted to throw into this is that the
job just isn't for you.
I knew you are actually feeling really burned out by having to shoehorn
yourself in. This is what actually happened to me early in my career.
When I was working at a recruitment agency, I had a wonderful team,
a boss that I was learning so much from.
And I was from a metrics perspective, doing pretty well,
but the job really wasn't for me.
So as incredible as it was, honestly,
it felt like it was sucking my soul and I needed to get out.
So in the middle of the great recession,
I walked into my boss's office on a Monday morning and I put in my notice.
And I was done then and there.
Even though I was extremely aware of the market that I was
walking into,
sometimes you do need to make a leap of faith in yourself that things are going
to work out.
And sometimes you do just need the space that being funemployed
gives you to help you figure it out.
If you are interested in deep diving into ways that you
can find a job really fast, even right now,
with everything going on in the world,
definitely hit the subscription button plus a notification belt.
That is the topic of my next video. In the meantime,
you should go and watch this video where I'm going to help you
figure out if you're actually going to toxic workplace,
that you really need an effective exit strategy ASAP.
I'll see you in the next video bye for now.
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