How to Quit Your Job: Don’t Quit Your Day Job Before Finding a New One

Frustrated? Fed Up? Feeling Unchallenged? Looking to further your career?
Whatever the reason you are considering leaving your current job, there’s one thing most professionals agree on – don’t quit your day job before finding a new one.

This is especially true in these tight economic times.

How to Quit Your Job

Top 6 Reasons to Quit Your Job

Think of the reasons you feel like wanting to quit your job. Where your situation belongs to:

1. The company you work for is facing economic turmoil and is losing customers and money. Growth is non-existent and there rumors that the company may be facing restructuring even closure.

2. Your relationship with your supervisor/manager is on shaky grounds and is beyond repair. This can be because of missed days of work, conflict and disagreements, the actions of the supervisor/manager, or a number of other reasons where the damage to the relationship is so severe it cannot be restored to a state of trust and respect.

3. Your personal life has changed. You may have married, had a child, plan to move with a spouse to a new location, desire a higher salary or more benefits. Whatever the reason your current job is no longer meeting your life needs.

4. Your values, beliefs, or ethics find themselves in conflict with the actions of your employer. Perhaps your manager is acting in a manner that’s troubling such as lying to customers; perhaps the company is wasting valuable resources that lead to a conflict with your beliefs; or perhaps the company is acting in a manner you find unethical to the environment. Whatever the reason when your beliefs and the actions of the company clash it’s a good time to move on.

5. The stress of your job is affecting you both mentally and physically. It’s affecting you on and off the job and your relationships with family and friends are suffering.

6. Career Growth: you want to grow in responsibilities, positions, expertise or recognition and would like to explore opportunities in your profession – those opportunities that you find limited in your current workplace.

Key Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Quit Your Job

The tough economic times have left people tired, with little patience after watching colleagues, friends, and family suffer through layoffs.
This often leads to a desire for job change. You aren’t happy at your current job but you’re still not sure if you should be considering a move.
Here are some key questions to ask before you quit your job.

1. What is it about your current job situation that is frustrating you?

2. Is your current work environment unbearable because of abuse, stress, and other conditions?

3. Have you done everything possible to improve your current work environment and to make your job practical?

4. What are you goals for your life, job, and/or career and how does your current situation fit?

5. Are you being realistic about your plan to find a new job and will the situation actually improve?

6. Do you have enough money saved to ensure you can cover a full year of expenses?

7. Will you lose valuable benefits such as health insurance that you cannot afford to be without?

8. Do you have the support of your family?

It is recommended not to quit your job before finding a new one, unless it is a special case.

How to Quit Your Job With Style

If you’ve decided the time has come to leave your current job, why not quit your job with style?
By doing so you leave doors open you might otherwise close. For example, if you tell your current employer or supervisor exactly what you think of them this can come back to haunt you in the future.

Instead do everything right – give proper notice, follow protocol for quitting, and leave on good terms no matter what you are really thinking.