Pakchik minta aku kecek-kecek tentang babi. Tapi aku malas. Babi, bukan saja tidak elok untuk kesihatan fizikal, malah emosi dan mental juga. Orang boleh jadi gila kerana babi. Orang boleh jadi bodoh kerana babi. Brader Said Mirro pasti setuju, kan?

Jadi mahu kecek tentang apa? Tentang lompat. Oh… bukan tentang lebih 30 MP mahu lompat parti itu. Itu aku tak mahu campur. Bagi aku, itu menipu demokrasi. Matlamat tidak menghalalkan cara. Noktah.

Mood aku masih tentang kerja, atau kerjaya jika kamu suka. Sebenarnya, aku (dan kalian juga), tidak memerlukan alasan untuk lompat kerja. Ramai yang terkejut aku tukar kerja baru-baru. Syarikat aku steady, kata mereka. Kenapa join company yang lebih inferior, tanya mereka lagi. Aku hanya senyum. :)

Jadi sahabat-sahabat, kalau dapat peluang untuk tukar kerja, dan kalian memang berhajat untuk tukar kerja (atas alasan masing-masing), jangan jadikan 10 alasan yang tidak cukup baik ini sebagai penghalang.

#1 “Things might get better”

That jerk manager might be promoted out of there. That annoying co-worker could quit.That mound of overwork could suddenly disappear.

On the other hand, things might also get worse. Or they might not change at all. If you’ve already done your best to improve your job situations and nothing’s happened, just waiting around for things to improve by themselves make little sense.

#2 “My boss is such a jerk but if I quit now, he wins.”

Who cares. This is not about winning or losing, this is your life. Move on, already.

#3 “I’m not a quitter.”

Well guess what these somewhat successful people have in common: Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Tiger Woords, Reese Witherspoon, John McEnroe and John Steinbeck?

Yep, they all dropped out of Stanford.

The old saying that “Winners never quit and quitters never win” is just plain wrong and leaving a bad job is just common sense.

#4 “I’ll never get another job”

Well not if you stay in your current job while it slowly grinds you down, you won’t! Move on now while you still have some self-confidence, motivation and energy left.

#5 “If I quit I’ll lose my salary, status, company car, the recognition of my peers, etc.”

Yes, quitting a job carries a price and that makes it scary. We all know this intimately.

But few of us ask this question: What is the price of staying in a job that makes you unhappy?

That price can be very high. It can ruin your work life but also your marriage, your family life, your health, your self-esteem and your sanity. Not all at once, but a little bit every day.

#6 “Everywhere else is just as bad”

That’s just nonsense. There are plenty of great workplaces in every industry.

#7 “I’ve invested so much in this job already”

You may have sacrificed a lot of time, energy and dignity already in attempts to make things better. This will make it more difficult for you to call it quits.

I’m reminded of how Nigerian email scammers sucker in people. At first it’s a small investment, but then the amounts grow and grow. At each step the victim is reluctant to stop because that would mean losing all the money he’s spent so far.

Quit anyway. Staying on is just throwing good time after bad.

#8 “I’ll lose my health insurance.”

I have a lot of sympathy for this argument. Where I live (Denmark), everybody gets free health care regardless of their employment situation so I can’t imagine the leverage this must give employers.

One answer: Start looking for another job with similar health benefits.

Also: Ask yourself what good job related health insurance is if your job is actually making your sick - which bad jobs can absolutely do.

#9 “My job pays very well”

I have zero sympathy for this argument. I don’t care how well your job pays; if it makes you unhappy it’s not worth it.

Quite the contrary, if you make a lot of money now, use that financial security to quit and find a job that’ll make you happy.

#10 “Quitting will look bad on my CV”

Whereas staying for years in a job that grinds you down and goes nowhere will look excellent.

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