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Answer These Four Questions Convincingly Before You Quit Your Job
Don’t just do it
If you’ve ever experienced a breakup, you are likely familiar with quitting a job. After days, weeks, months, or even years together, you decide you want a break. Sometimes, it is a result of one final straw breaking the camel’s back.
It gets very emotional. It sure can get messy. Feelings of being hard done by are commonplace. Often, you know it is for the good of both parties.
As a friend puts it, it comes down to either a very firm good riddance or a teary goodbye. You either shed lots of tears, or you celebrate with lots of beer.
The truth is, everything that has a beginning also has an end. Let’s say it is one of the few certainties in life. Sort of like death and taxes, as they say.
I remember going from one office to the other, shaking hands with smiling colleagues at work. (That was when we could shake others’ hands) I was the new kid on the block, familiarizing myself with all the tenants and essential service providers at the shopping mall I would soon be managing.
After a long seven-month stint, I am calling it quits. It is an emotional moment for me. But I always knew it was going to be a short-term deal. Even then, I had been asking myself some deep questions while…
