Should You Stay or Should You Go? A Simple Matrix to Help You Decide

Hi, I'm Helen and you're listening to one of our squiggly career shortcuts. These are very short episodes of our podcast designed to help you quickly take action. And today's shortcut is about should you stay or should you switch up your job? I actually get asked this question a lot from people like, how do I know? when is the right time to leave?

And a lot of the time I think people are relying on a gut feeling, which I entirely get, but I think it is useful to balance that with a bit of reflection. And so the tool that I use whenever I'm talking to somebody about this, which might be helpful for you to know about, is a matrix. You all know that I love a matrix, but this is one that helps you to think about whether you are learning in the job. and whether you kind of really love where you're working. So if you imagine like a two by two matrix and on one dimension you've got um you love it a lot, you don't love it at all.

And on the others you've got you're learning a lot and you're not learning at all. This creates four quadrants which then affect how you should think about like switching or staying in your job. So let's imagine that you You like love where you're working, but you don't feel like you're learning a lot. So you probably, you know, you really like the company culture, for example.

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