The question of whether or not to change jobs when they are not satisfied with something worries many from time to time. How do you know when the time has come to apply for resignation? How not to be mistaken, not to delay this moment and not to rush?
First, you need to consider the criteria for assessing job satisfaction. In the first place for the majority is the size of wages or remuneration. Other factors are also important. For example, proximity to home, the psychological climate at work, its content, relationships with management.
The weights of these factors are different for everyone. Someone is accustomed to working just for money, and the meaninglessness of his work does not affect his attitude at all. The other person agrees to work for less money, or even for free, realizing that they are of great benefit to others, or enjoying their work.
Workplace comfort is also important. Not only psychological but also simple. For example, recently it has become fashionable to create offices without windows, with air conditioners that drive musty air inside the room. From such an office you only dream of breaking free as soon as possible.
Ideally, you should devote yourself to a job that is interesting, to work “with your heart”, by vocation. There is often a conflict between the financial side of the matter and the spiritual. They pay for what you don’t want to do, but they don’t want to pay for what is pleasant to do.
How wonderful it would be if employers, like waiters, bending over the applicant, asked: "What do you want?" But no. The one who pays calls the tune. And the path to your vocation is so thorny and difficult that not everyone will be able to withstand this test.
So when do you need to change jobs? When it is decidedly not satisfied with most of the criteria. When the cons seriously outweigh the pros. Before submitting an application, it is worth considering a situation in which there is a willingness to stay - for example, a salary increase, a transition to a more flexible schedule, and other possible bonuses.
In case the employer wants to leave the employee at the workplace, this list will come in handy. And if nothing can force you to stay, then you need to make a decision and leave.
