When Should I Quit? How Do I Know When to Move On?

When should I quit my job? How do I know if my work environment is toxic or just normal? Should I stay for a certain period of time? These are the questions we will answer in today's episode of Dev Questions.

[nsedwards]

Great advice as always, thanks Tim :) It's always nice to get confirmation of your own thoughts on these topics.

[niksatan]

Thanks!!! Again, timing is amazing! "What is normal", human alltime question

[davindersra]

you are just amazing man thanks for sharing you important and valuable throughs

[faisalalhoqani]

Great episode, dear Tim yes health and family are our top priorities.

[codefoxtrot]

Nailed it, thanks Tim! Though you have many important videos, this will surely be a popular one among them.

[mostafamahrous]

Very nice .you share the video is very wonderful and very helpful thank you for sharing ❤❤❤

[ld]

This is really spot on, Tim. I currently work remotely, but was offered a new position back in an office setting. With a significant raise. The flexibility I have to do all things with my son is amazing in my remote role. That all would change in the new role. That's my boundary. I was struggling to find whether I should stay. Thanks for putting this out there. It's a really important topic to cover.

[News_n_Dine]

I love your shirt Tim. Where can i get one?

[andywalter]

There is one other case where its time to quit that was not mentioned. My first job out of college, I actually quit after around 4 years. What happened was I was running out of things to do so I would come to work and be completely bored. That was over 20 years ago but still realized it was for the best because I did everything I could there and wrote all the apps I could write for the company as well. Even though I had no other job lined up, I quit anyways. I even was able to collect unemployment since they realized I had a good reason (no work to do). I keep hearing about working too much. I always had the opposite problem of no work to do.

[dzllz]

Which microphone do you use? Another great vid!

[DaXiS]

Haha I thought this meant "quit being a developer". I would never quit that, love it too much. Thanks for video Tim!

[CarrigansGuitarClub]

When your normal workload is BAU\Support....and your not enjoying the challenge - then it's time to move!

[mohitnagpal]

Hi Tim, please give me some advice.

I'm stuck in a Tier 3 City in my country and all of the jobs are in Tier 2 and Tier 1 cities. I have two job offers right now.

One is in my present tier 3 City. They provide a monthly salary of 22k but they have a service agreement in the job offer which says that I should work for them for at least 2 years or I have to pay 80k (local currency) if I leave before it.

The second job offer I have is in Tier 2 or Tier 1 City but it is uncertain that when i will get the date of joining. The company sent a mail that tentative month of joining is April 2023.

I don't know what to. I'm stuck in a toxic home (I live in a joint family) as well as in this tier 3 City where there are negligible software development job opportunities and all of them have a service agreement.

I have worked as hard as I could in my life. But still I'm stuck. I am literally left with nothing else in life.

Please suggest me something.

[tomaszandrew]

I wonder how it is possible to be a great developer, teacher and smart/reasonable guy at the same time :D

[andywalter]

One question is if a job is impacting your relationship, is it best to quit even if you have no job lined up? Because otherwise, you could lose the relationship before the next job is lined up. Even if a person knows its time to move on, it can take at least 5 years to get anything else though.

[webdeveloperninja]

I wish I saw this earlier in my career

[carguy-xvcl]

Any tips for interviewing while working full time in an environment where you work overtime and people never take time off?

[lassel]

Its always hard to quit when you are making good money

[webluke]

The job-seeking process is what gets me. You apply for a job that looks good, you have all the skills they want, the experience, and then your application goes into a black hole with no feedback for months. Then you get a canned "Sorry, you're not considered" email. You do that 50 times, and you get stuck just staying longer with your current job.

[kylekeenan]

Its time to quit when your contemplating the idea of it at all. If your happy and in the right job you won't be thinking about it.