Is it Time For a New Job?

How do you know when it’s time to look for a new job? Maybe you started a new job recently and don’t like it as much as you expected to, or maybe you’ve been with the same company for years and have slowly stopped enjoying your work. Most people spend decades of their lives working full time, making it important to be sure that whatever job you’ve chosen is making you happy. According to Business Insider, these are the four signs that you should look for a new job:

1. Your work is stunting your growth

Have you been doing the same work since day one? My friend Jim Kwik, celebrity brain and memory coach, once said to me, "If you're not feeding your mind, you're falling behind." Is your job stretching you, pushing you forward, making you better? Are you expanding year over year?

"You can be at a job for seven years, but without new learnings and growth, what you really could have is one year of experience repeated seven times," Kwik says. Yikes. Now that's depressing. And it's no way to spend your precious years on planet earth.

2. You're irritable (and have been complaining to anyone who'll listen)

Have your conversations with friends and family lately been dominated by how much you hate your job? Are they sick of hearing about it? 

Alarm bells are probably ringing loud and clear to almost everyone who's listening to you. If so, it's your job to take responsibility for your situation and commit to a new direction.

3. You've been thinking about a change for a while

My LinkedIn profile says I used to be a sales director at a Fortune 500 company. But in my head — and to the people who really knew me — I was a coach and teacher.

As year after year went by, it was harder and harder to maintain what felt like a betrayal of who I knew I really was. When I turned 30, I made the commitment to work for myself as a life coach and committed side hustler. Less than 18 months later, I left cubicle life for good. It was scary as heck at the time, but the best decision I've ever made.
When I looked back, I realized I always wanted to work for myself. I'd been thinking about it for years. I'd daydream about having freedom over my schedule and secretly always envied entrepreneurs that I read about and who I met in real life. I knew that I definitely didn't want my boss's position. And over time I simply cared less and less about getting results in the job that I was doing. My focus on my side hustle naturally grew because I knew that it was ultimately my way out.

If you've spent a long time thinking about doing something else, consider it a sign.

4. You feel out of alignment

Are the books you read, the subjects you love to talk about, and the topics you research aligned with your work? These things are all big signs about what interests and motivates you.

What I know from experience is that when we do meaningful work, we access energy resources we didn't know we had. That's why side hustles are so rapidly on the rise: They are passion-fueled. When we are not activating the special gifts within us that want to surface, our soul knows it. It's like a quiet, unsettling voice that won't be silenced. So listen to it.

A new job, career or side hustle beckons if even one if these apply to you. Because your talent (and your life!) is too important to squander.