Sometimes we make mistakes in life and unfortunately sometimes mistakes occur specifically in terms of the jobs we accept.
Have you ever accepted a new job and several days or weeks after starting, you begin to think that you’ve made a terrible mistake?
Studies that I’ve read show that people typically feel they’ve made a mistake switching jobs within about 8 weeks of starting a new one. During this time, they start seeing the new company as it really is and perhaps start noticing things aren’t exactly as they were led to believe.
I’ve helped people get new jobs and then on their first day, their manager forgot they were starting or didn’t even have their desk ready for them. When stuff like this happens, people start wondering if they were really wanted by the company afterall?
Perhaps the job isn’t as desirable as you thought. Maybe you suddenly wonder why you wanted to leave your previous employer so badly?
I know of a few people who quit a job, started a new one and within 2 months were back again working for the old employer. Whether or not they were happily working again for the old employer is another story I guess…
When looking over a person’s resume it’s often interesting to read their experience and see stability in their employment, where they stayed with their employers for a few years…and then suddenly see a job where they only lasted 8 months or something similar. I immediately wonder what happened.
Did they get laid off?
Were they fired?
Did they hate the job, quit and get a new one?
Sometimes it’s a case where a better opportunity came up and they left to take it.
While you don’t want to build a resume where you look like a job jumper, jumping from company to company in a short period of time, you also don’t want to stick around in a situation that just isn’t working.
It is best though to make sure you look before you leap: if you’re thinking about quitting a job you recently started, it’s best to think about exactly why you want to leave and first make sure it’s the right thing to do.
In my experience, waiting and seeing often ends up being the best thing and your new job ends up being exactly what you had hoped it would be.
