To leave or to stay, or twenty years later

Think about what will become of your professional career, changing jobs - plus or minus? Compare all the detail and weigh them. Maybe it makes sense to give your company one last chance? .. What can be done to improve the situation at the current workplace? What is lacking direct you to be happy?

Before making a serious decision, ask an audience with the chief. Discuss with him, are not expected any more interesting production targets, not whether there is a new opportunity for you as a professional. Be sure to check whether there are alternative career paths, for example in other departments or divisions of the company.

Once you have come to the conclusion ...

If the arguments "for" clearly speak in favor of leaving the company, then it is time to act.

Consider what direction could be an option. From my own experience negative vote, which could be a chance for professional growth in the vending new workplace. Be very critical.

If you have no desire to work on the old paper, there is a risk that, due to the frustration you can accept any job (no matter where, just to get away). But this is not the solution, because the new company you will quickly find yourself in a similar situation, and dissatisfaction will increase even more.

Classroom work is associated with a variety of serious consequences, so everything should be good to think in advance.

Keep silence

It is important not to spread before the time of his alleged resignation. It is better to wait and even with the closest colleagues around this topic is not light upon a suitable location.

The search can sometimes go on long enough, and you will not feel comfortable in the position of an outsider. If the climate in the workplace is poor - the relationship with the boss and co-workers can significantly complicated. It is necessary to gain time and to spend the last week in a calm atmosphere.

Cases when irritated leadership wrongly accusing an employee leaving the company of all sins, referring to the fact that he is worthless worker. Do not forget that for future employment nice to get a good response and recommendations. Finally, the day will come when you have to make public its decision.

You know exactly what the new job offers, more than that, you have already signed a new employment contract. Just tell your boss has the intention to leave the company. No matter how much your irritation, joyless stay in this company, no matter how difficult it evolved relationships with colleagues and superiors, in spite of all the accumulated over the years of resentment, try to say goodbye properly, without explanation of the relationship and the more scandals.

Good manners are not yet canceled, and who knows how the rest of your life in the future. Perhaps in the future professional life, you have again and again faced with former colleagues in this case will be pleased to know that you broke up quite well.

What to think about before you change jobs:

# How long have you worked at the firm? Is it time to go, otherwise you risk being branded flyers.

# Do not act recklessly. Quietly weigh all the "pros" and "cons".

# Are you sure that the situation in the old place has not improved?

# You have an appointment with the boss?

# Are there signals about the need to change jobs?

# You already know which company or activity for you the most appropriate?

# Try to leave nicely, quietly, without scandals and insults.

10 myths about the work of the

My article "10 reasons why you do not have to work" quickly became very popular, so I found that it would be nice to write something about the realities of working for themselves. There are so many myths about the work itself (especially between the lifelong employees), that for the beginning it would be good to dispel some of them.

His first business, I started immediately after graduating from college (it was in December 1993) and continue to work continuously on this day. The only time when I was an employee held in college, when I was six months retailer half-rate.

1. Those self-employed, working really much.

Many self-employed people work more than employees. Some get so much pleasure from the work that they want to work longer. Some organize its business in such a way that their physical presence is necessary to create an income. Both ways are the normal choice, if only because that person you decide what and how to organize it.

Many start their businesses so that they are paid only when they work, such as a lawyer, legal advice and the opening exhibition hourly bills its customers. When a lawyer at home, he does not create income. But there is no law that says you only have to start a business that make money only when your work.

If you start a business, you just-just create jobs for themselves. I prefer to think of the work in line with the construction of systems. You stand a profitable system that brings you money system that you own, and which control.

It's like having a golden goose that work brings golden eggs. Thus, the long work to a greater extent indicator type of business that you have personally chosen. If you do not like to work hard, you certainly do not have to.

2. The only reason for creating business - selling it.

This is a favorite statement of Michael Gerber, author of "The E-Myth Revisited" and other books in the series "E-Myth". Of course you can always create a business for sale or display it to the public offering, but you can also create a business to keep it. In fact, to create a business for some time to leave work, and then simply to kill, this is absolutely correct.

As a self-employed person, you are free to build any business, how you want. If you want to build a business to sell, do it. If you just need a source of income that does not require you going to work, it's too bad. There is no rule that says you have to build a business as a monument to the human greatness.

Many people enjoy the periodic business. They start a business, while his lead, and then sell or close. Then they repeat the process. You can also have several businesses in the same time. This may sound complicated, but if you have to operate the business for ten years or more, repeat the process and create another one is not difficult. Also, the variety can be fun if you do not overdo.

3. Work on much riskier than getting a job.

The security is the result of monitoring, and the work itself gives you much more control than regular work. When you work for yourself, no one can lay off or dismiss. What's more secure - the possession of a private source of income or rent?

Undoubtedly possession. If you urgently need the extra money, it is very difficult to find them when you are an employee. But as the owner who controls all the assets of your business you have the opportunity to redirect resources in a difficult position.

Possession control creates big differences. Workers most at risk. Do you realize how much risk when suddenly hear "we enable you to act", at the same time, when the owners enjoy the spoils of record profits.

4. To work for yourself is to put all your eggs in one basket.

Ask yourself, how many people you have anger, that they cut off your source of income? For employees usually one. If your boss fires you, your income off immediately. Rightly or wrongly - you lose all the sources of income, regardless of the reason.

So it is folding the eggs in one basket. With work on himself, meanwhile, you can easily diversify your revenue streams, thus reducing the risk. You have all the necessary tools to do so. Create different types of income from thousands of customers is much safer than getting a single wages.

Erin and I get together about a dozen different types of income, including direct sales, sales through third parties and distributors, promotional payments and royalty income from affiliate programs, consulting, etc. If even our largest source of income dries up immediately, everything is still good.

5. Self-employment is stressful.

If you are tense, you are unable to make ends meet, whether you work somewhere or just yourself. But all things being equal in life and income, I think that the work of the less stressful, as you enjoy a greater degree of control. The lack of control over their own time and life that's stress. When you have the freedom to say "no", you can easily control your stress.

Working for yourself can be a very low-stress if you decide to make it so. You can turn your office into a relaxing place to work. You can set your own schedule. If you notice signs of stress, you can take a break to relax. No one can force you to do what you want.

6. The customer is always right.

If you work for yourself, to freely dispose of customers who upset you. Some customers simply do not deserve your efforts. Erin and I have interacted with thousands of clients over the last 11 years and almost all of them were amazing. But from time to time, we must dare to clients and refuse to deal with these people.

We rarely find it possible, but it happened. I can easily accept criticism, but go out of itself when the client becomes intolerably rude, trying to hurt or starts to threaten. Some people think that when they behave like nobodies, any business has to bend over backwards to help them. But my principle of customer service: no courtesy - no service.

If you work for yourself, there is no need to do business with those who think that they have the privilege to perceive you as scum. If you do not like to have such customers, it is unlikely you will like the people who come on their recommendations. On the other hand, you can have fun by sending these people to competitors.

7. Work on leads to loneliness.

Many workers think they enjoy full social life when all they do is hang out with his colleagues. It's nice at first, but it gets boring after a while. On the other hand, I think that a self-employed person is easier to recognize the need for social activities outside of work.