How do you know when its time to look for another job?

I want to change jobs. What can I do to make sure its right?How do you know when its time to look for another job?
When you feel that the job is no longer a challenge, or that you can advance no further in your career, for whatever reason.How do you know when its time to look for another job?
LOOK FOR SIGNS :



01; BOSS SAYS YOU'RE FIRED



02; CUT IN HOURS



03; CUT IN WAGES



04; YOU ARE THE ONLY ENGLISH SPEAKING EMPLOYEE, AND THE ONLY ONE PAYING TAXES !



05;WHEN THE BOSS NO LONGER LETS YOU CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAME



06; WHEN THE BOSS NO LONGER CLEANS HISS/HER POSTERIOR BEFORE MAKING YOU KISS IT !
If you want to change jobs, then it's time to look for one. There is no fool-proof way to do this, you've just got to put yourself out there and start looking. Try and set up interviews on your lunch hour, or try and arrange several for one day, then take it off from the job you already have to go to them. Good luck.
when you kick and scream on the way there
if your not happy with current job then start to look around. if you are always thinking about doing something else then its time for a change. you cant do current job well if you really want to be doing other things. if you are no longer happy when you wake up. these are all good ways to tell you need a change! GOOD LUCK!!
As a Career Counselor, I would tell you to make sure you have another one...It's always easier to get a job when you have one then when you just get frustrated and quit. Additionally, go find out what it is you really want to do. You should go to your local employment office and ask about Workforce Investment Act Services. They are free and can help to guide you in a career choice in what are called demand occupations. If you don't have time to do that; go to the Department of Labor web site: http://www.careeronestop.org It has many wonderful tools to help you decide your next career and allows you to explore what it takes to do them (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities).
There are several clues as to when you need to look for a job.



1-When you go to and from work with loose bowels.

2-When your supervisor of 5 years knows your wifes name but not yours.

3-When at least outsiders have been hired at more money and your supervisor asks you to train them as they know nothing.

4-when at least 3 people have been hired with no skills because they are minorities and must earn more money under our gracious federal govt's butt kissing plan. And you are to train them to be your boss.



5-When you discover you are actually not in a foreign country , you are just the only one who can speak english.



6-when your companies requires yu to learn to speak spainish to keep your job so you can train the mexicans who are replacing your co workers and probly eventually you too.



7-When you are required to be tested to acheive the increased pay scale the company just hired 6 new guys at to start with. (and the company offers to send you to school on your time to enable you to pass the test which they were not required to pass).

8-When you see an advertizment in the local papers for for some one to fill the same type positions as you are now doing and they are offered an incinitvie to sign bonus of $4000 and several dollars more an hour.



9- When you discover some employees are getting more vacation time than you but have less empoyment time.



10-When you discover there ar eneary as many new supervisors as there ar eemployes actually working and they are remarkablely a lot darker than you are. (could be the weather?).:):)



11-When your new neissan you brought for saving gas requires 40 bucks a wek to operate(your old gas gussing chevy cost 20 two years a go) but your paycheck isn't any higher in the gross. and much less in the end.



12-When the company announces your insurance companyis being changed due to rate increases they imposed. Than th erates go even higher and your life insurance increase every year instea dof every 5 years. You later find out your company i snow insuring you also but will be using an insurance company as a book keeper. you are now paying both your company and the insurance company for the same thjing you were paying just the insurance company but at a much higher rate. (many companie sare now doing this for profit at their employees expense.).



If yu are unhappy.

If you have been employed at the same company fo r5 years or more and have not made noticible imnprovements in salary or been offered a promotion than move on.



If your company offers educational benefits than grab it because it's nearly a gurantee that in the future new management will force you out to bring in his own butt kissers.



Only education and multi job skills can work for you in todays job environment. Few Comnpanies have no idea of loyality to employees they expect form employees.

It's a fact that you will probly move several times in yur career or even annually otacheive any salary range.
search for work in the area that really turns your crank, regardless of pay. you just can't be any happier than when your workiing at something you truely love doing.