What you may gain when you resign

Summary

The content discusses the potential benefits and emotional aspects of resigning from a job, emphasizing the positive impact of career moves when personal and professional growth is stalled.

Abstract

The article reflects on the emotional complexities of resigning from a job and the potential for personal and professional growth that can follow such a decision. It suggests that while leaving a job can be a difficult and stressful experience, it often leads to better opportunities and happiness at work. The author, with 20 years of work experience, advocates for change when progress is hindered, noting that a new job can provide a fresh start and the chance to utilize untapped skills. The article also acknowledges the ease of transition for those less attached to their workplace and emphasizes the importance of being clear about the decision to move on. It concludes by quoting Nido Qubein, reinforcing the idea that change brings opportunity and can be advantageous if embraced.

Opinions

Resigning from a job, despite being a stressful event, is often the best step forward for personal and professional advancement.
Frequent job changes are not necessarily advised, but changes are seen as necessary when one cannot progress in their current role.
A career move can lead to significant advancements in one's career if supported by valid reasons.
Emotional attachments to a workplace can make resignation more challenging, but it is important to be prepared for the change.
A new job offers the chance to reassess and apply one's strengths, potentially reinvigorating a career.
New environments and relationships can contribute to further personal development.
Embracing change can lead to new opportunities and the ability to apply previously unused or forgotten skills.

A lot of emotions can be connected to this one event of ending the working relationship.

In my 20 years of work experience, I have been always positively surprised by the fact that this difficult decision and stressful event in one man’s life has proved to be always the best step forward.

I am not promoting to change jobs often, I am however sustaining that changes are needed whenever you cannot get ahead.

If you have good arguments to back up your decision, a career move has always the potential to help you to get ahead in your career…

Of course, it is easier for the ones who did not spend enough time in the same workplace to get close enough to their co-workers and bound friendships if compared with the ones that spend good years of their life being part of one organization.

Most likely that the resignation brings mixed feelings and breaking relationships voluntarily is required from us to be prepared and be very clear on our decision to change jobs.

Here are a few things to consider when you resign, as to make this transition a little easier for you:

· Your job probably takes up more time than anything in your life apart from sleeping.

· You deserve the best of opportunities and to be happy at work (and in general).

· If things were not improving for you lately, maybe a new perspective is all you needed.

· Meeting new people and a new working environment may contribute better to your further personal development.

· You will have again the chance to remind yourself and to prove to others what your strengths are. No matter the new context, you may have the chance to start applying the skills that have never been used or have been lately forgotten.

· Fresh new start may bring you the opportunity to change the way you act, to build and retain better the new relationships, therefore to apply whatever new leanings you acquired in your previous roles….

As Nido Qubein said: “Change brings opportunity”, and this will happen always if you know to use it to your advantage!