Someone asked this question and I wanted to share my response with you as I thought it might be helpful if you are to be faced with the same situation.
The question is:
What do you do when you aren’t enjoying the new job you took less than 3 months ago?
What if you’re really trying to make it work but it just seems like your setup to fail?
Your boss doesn’t know how to communicate very well
AND
Everything you do just isn’t “good enough”
You know you’re a competent, capable, and logically sound working professional
You’ve proved that in your previous roles.
So, why, suddenly to you feel incapable?
Just got off the phone with a friend who is going through this very situation.
Personally, I’d say life is too short to stay in a job that sucks you dry and leaves you feeling miserable at the end of the day.
As @Gary V would say, “Don’t stay at the job you hate just to help your resume. Just tell your next employer that you used your self-awareness to make the decision that it wasn’t the right fit or that you were sold a bag of goods that weren’t real”.
But, are there circumstances, in which you would stick it out?
“Maybe things will get better”
“I want to least put a year in”
“Maybe my boss will change?”
What would you do?
I completely agree that life is too short to stay in a job that sucks you dry and makes you feel miserable.
Though I would add that before you make a decision, you might want to start with some sort of root cause analysis.
- The “right fit” may mean one of 2 things. Either the company, people, or culture are not a good fit for you, or you are not a good fit for them.
- Your answer to that will help you assess what your next step should be. Only you can make the decision if it’s worth moving or staying depending on the circumstances, and your assessment of the situation. Weigh everything including the risk. If you want to be scientific about it, an FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) would help you assess the effects of the different options you may take. It will allow you to score it, and sort the Risk from highest to lowest.
- If you do choose to leave, then apply Gary Vaynerchuk’s advice accordingly.
Hope this helps!
The reason why I shared this is because as you can see, you can actually apply your continuous process improvement skillsets not just in business and in doing projects, but in real life situations as well.
I would like to impart that knowledge with you, and I show how root cause analysis and the FMEA works in my book – The Business Optimization Blueprint (downloaded in 34 countries!). Downand it for FREE (for a limited time only) so you can start applying these skills to improve your business and your life.
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