Fire Your Boss! Change Your Job!

Much of what the career advices we get out there is to be a bet­ter worker, or improve your per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity at work or some­thing of this “bet­ter” nat­ural.  Some­times, we need to take a step back and ask, “Is this what I want?”, “Am I doing the right thing for myself?” or “Is this the right job for me?”.  By answer­ing such prin­ci­ple ques­tions in our heart, it becomes eas­ier for you to make a deci­sion in your career.  Now, you always have an option in your hand to leave the organ­i­sa­tion.  What will be the fac­tors that will make you leave the organ­sa­tion then?

1. Are you unhappy because the job is not what you want? – Sim­ple, this is not the job that you truly dreamed off.  End the mis­ery early by find­ing some­thing you like.  Avoid hang­ing in this mis­ery for too long!  You will con­tinue to be mis­er­able if you hold on to it.
2. Are you always doing the “dirty” work? – You are always been given tasks that are of low value oper­a­tional work.  You are not given tasks that are of high value instead you are always assigned to those mean­ing­less jobs…
3. Are you being rejected for all your train­ing pro­pos­als? – What­ever train­ing pro­pos­als that you made to the boss are always rejected.  What’s worst is your peers are enti­tled for the course while you stay in the office to clear his plate of work!  Favoritism at its best again?
4. Are you not appre­ci­ated by your boss? – What­ever results you deliv­ered is just not up to the boss’es expec­ta­tion.  They brush you off with insignif­i­cant remarks.   They don’t really see the effort you put into your work.
5. Are you lowly paid com­pared to your peers in the mar­ket? – If the salary you are get­ting is not com­pa­ra­ble to what the mar­ket is offer­ing, it’s really time to move on.  You can wait for as long as you want, but what you need maybe a fat­ter salary pack­age to feed your fam­ily, pay the mort­gage and the car now!
6. Are you always blame for any­thing and every­thing? – What­ever things that hap­pened, you are always blamed.  What’s worst is even you have made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions or have been per­form­ing pos­i­tively but is still blamed for minor details at work.  Is your boss find­ing all avenue to piss you off?  Or is there some short-circuit mechan­sim in their brain that they need to pin­point your every mistake?
7. Are you at the los­ing end of favoritism? – You are always given unfair treat­ment.  You are not on par with the other col­leagues when it comes to wel­fare and career pro­gres­sion.  You are always not con­sid­ered for any­thing impor­tant except to work on sim­ple, non-strategic work.  Guess what, you are not being favored by your boss!

If what these are you are expe­ri­enc­ing at work, it maybe time to update your resume.  The world is round and there are lots of oppor­tu­ni­ties up there.  Again, we are always being make believed to be a bet­ter worker in office but not many advo­cate to leave the organ­i­sa­tion if you do not like it.  Take this piece of advice as a note and see if it can be planned and applied in your context.

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