People seem to be programmed to be unhappy.

Happy people have a plan to circumvent programmed unhappiness.

Maybe it’s the economy or maybe just a changing world but dissatisfaction on the job is rising.

Here are good reasons to quit your job and move on:

• Lack of workplace respect for the special person you are and the diversity you may bring to the job.
• Habitually overburdening you with a workload that prevents you from doing your best.
• Lack of growth potential.  I always say, if you could write the real job description for the job you just accepted one year later, you might not have applied for the job in the first place.
• No respect for you, your family and your co-workers.  A company that doesn’t respect people is a company you want to leave.  Nothing good can come from staying on.
• An unusually long time without a fair pay raise.
• The inability to give real input on the job you are asked to perform.
• Your dream has changed in which case pursue it with all the vigor you can muster being ready to make whatever sacrifices you might have to make.

And here are reasons not to quit your job:

• Disliking an employer, boss or co-workers (with the exception of someone who is physically or mentally abusive).  Never let anyone push you out of a job you love because they are mean and disrespectful, immature or selfish. Outlast them.  They will soon be gone.
• For more money – unless – you love the job so much you would in your heart of hearts take it for less money.  That’s a better yardstick. Leaving for a raise often ends ugly.
• Waiting to retire.  Why punish yourself?  Work each day as if it was your first day on the job.  Aspire don’t retire.

Every summer while on vacation I consider myself a free agent and I spend a little time alone each day to determine if I want to do the same thing next year that I did last year (I know, I own my own business – I still do it). 

We shouldn’t just don’t put our lives and careers on autopilot. 

We are in charge.

We are all free agents not slaves to employers or to our misguided desires.

Knowing you want to continue in what you have been doing for another year or recognizing that you want to change, can be transformative.

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