Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that you might not need to quit
Speaker 1: while no job is forever. Sometimes what feels undoable could
Speaker 1: feel very different with some space or some different parameters.
Speaker 1: So if you read the news, you have no doubt
Speaker 1: seen a lot about the great resignation. With lots of
Speaker 1: job openings, people are feeling more comfortable leaving their current jobs,
Speaker 1: sometimes for other jobs and sometimes for different lifestyles, and
Speaker 1: sometimes that's the right move. Often you can earn more
Speaker 1: by moving between organizations. I wish this weren't true and
Speaker 1: that company's rewarded people for staying, but the labor market
Speaker 1: isn't efficient, so that does not happen. There are also
Speaker 1: many other rewarding things people can do with their time
Speaker 1: then full time work. That said, sometimes what is happening
Speaker 1: is that stress and anxiety can build up over time.
Speaker 1: We need to rest and recharged, but work feels so
Speaker 1: busy that resting and recharging doesn't seem possible. In this
Speaker 1: tense situation, something lights a fuse and quitting feels like
Speaker 1: the only option, But perhaps it isn't If you are
Speaker 1: thinking of quitting, but you think your job might be redeemable,
Speaker 1: you could try taking some serious time off first. I
Speaker 1: am talking at least two weeks and hopefully a bit more.
Speaker 1: If you have vacation days you haven't used yet, those
Speaker 1: would be good to deploy. If your company has any
Speaker 1: sort of paid or unpaid leave, that might be worth
Speaker 1: investigating too. You don't have to go anywhere exotic if
Speaker 1: Fiji isn't in the budget right now, but you do
Speaker 1: have to not work. See what it feels like to
Speaker 1: not feel stressed about work, See what it feels like
Speaker 1: to have time be more open. It is quite possible
Speaker 1: you will return after a few weeks feeling refreshed. Now
Speaker 1: you might be thinking this would never fly, But if
Speaker 1: your alternative is to quit, what do you have to lose?
Speaker 1: I recently talked with someone who had negotiated a part
Speaker 1: time position at an organization that basically did not do
Speaker 1: part time positions. How did it happen? Well, she was
Speaker 1: very clear that she was going to walk out the door.
Speaker 1: The part time position was a way to keep that
Speaker 1: from happening. Any rational employer would rather see a valued
Speaker 1: employee take a three week vacation and come back then
Speaker 1: walk out the door. For good hiring and training, someone
Speaker 1: will take way more than three weeks. So rather than
Speaker 1: walk out the door to get the feeling of that
Speaker 1: three week vacation, why not try the break first. Take
Speaker 1: the time truly off, don't check email, don't look at
Speaker 1: anything work related. See what comes from that. Maybe with
Speaker 1: some perspective you will feel the same way you want
Speaker 1: to be doing something else with your time. But maybe
Speaker 1: you'll feel ready to try again and to tackle some
Speaker 1: of the problems that seemed intractable before. You could move
Speaker 1: to a different team, you could negotiate for different hours,
Speaker 1: you can switch your port folio of projects. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: is hard to see these things in the moment, but
Speaker 1: with some space you can. So try the space and
Speaker 1: find out for sure if quitting is what you want
Speaker 1: to do. In the meantime, this is Laura, Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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