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Dead End Jobs
March 10th, 2008
The definition of a dead end job varies:
Career coma
Office fossilization
Personal insult
Not much fun.
Most people find a job unsatisfactory when it just doesn’t, or can’t, deliver what they want.
Actually, that’s a reasonable view.
But it’s not a reason to jump off a cliff.
Dead end jobs are more dangerous than they seem. They can drive people into decisions which they wouldn’t otherwise make. Boredom, lack of results, and monotonous routines are job-satisfaction killers. Add a few office fights or crises, and the idea of going somewhere else looks pretty good.
Say you’re right about your job. It really does go nowhere, and you have no reason to think it ever will.
The alternative is what?
The current labor market is no encouragement for drastic moves.
You need to go from a job to a job… Not from a job to oblivion.
Before you do anything:
· What are the risks?
· How do you make sure you can pay bills?
· How secure is your accommodation?
· What are the demands on your income, and how long can you hold things together?
The dead end job is a curse, but you’re not doing yourself any favors moving from a drab situation to what might be a much worse scenario.
Changing jobs is often a good idea because it creates some new elements in your life. New people, new situations.
Most importantly, it creates new opportunities, if you get it right.
Try and think a few steps ahead
· What are the promotion opportunities in the new job?
· Does it save money/make money?
· Where do you think you’ll be in five years?
· Does it solve any of the existing problems in the present job?
· Are you sure you can make the new job work?
· Any “people” or other issues in the new place that you can see? (Because it is quite possible to go from one lousy job to another.)
Getting out of a dead end job can be the best thing you’ve ever done.
It can make your work sing for you.
Just remember to watch your back when looking for a new job.
Don’t get taken by surprise by unknown factors in the new position, and never, ever, let your guard down.
If the bottom line works, everything else can work.
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