9 Major Signs You've Outgrown Your Job

In this video, Chelsea explores how to tell when you’re ready to move up the ladder, move on from a job, change up your workflow, or make another major change to your work life.

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[marig]

Repeat after me: Your Co-workers are NOT your family. You can befriend them, you can like them. But best believe once you stop working together your relationship won't be as strong.

[pri.sci.lla.]

I quit the job I had worked the entire pandemic, now I’m at a better company that actually cares about their employees. Getting paid more for less work, I am very happy!

[TheAlyWayYT]

1. Role isn't evolving. Nowhere to move up or your growth is held back, no appreciation e.g. raises for your good work.
2. Workflow is not thoughtful or intuitive. Consistently waiting on people, confusion on responsibilities, no consistent way to organize work.
3. Taken on bulk of boss' responsibilities outside of your job scope. Your boss pawns off their responsibilities onto you then takes credit.
4. Absorbed someone else's work (laterally), due to company being understaffed and not hiring enough.
5. Constantly running into same problems or complications e.g. HR issues with someone or same bottlenecks in processes.
6. Constantly have free time, coasting through job (unless you're into that).
7. Coworkers constantly complain about work. Potentially a toxic workplace!
8. Your ideas are frequently shot down. You are either in the wrong role or your employers don't care about your ideas.
9. You feel too emotionally attached to your job. Poor work-life balance, burnout, and unsustainable boundaries.

[daniella]

Side note, Chelsea your hair looks super cute in this video!

[cheryl]

I’m 41 and decided to quit my job and go back to school in September!

[chanicec]

This video popping up on my feed is a sign in itself. Thank you.

[DonnaJulia]

Literally just finished a final interview, but I was having major doubts about leaving my current job. This video is helping me solidifying that moving on is my best course of action!

[katieelspeth]

I want to provide a cautionary tale about the office bitching culture--early in my career I was at a job I really wanted to be doing, but we had some extremely challenging projects and I got caught up in venting about it with some of the other young interns. There were some things going on that were actual problems, but our attitude certainly wasn't helping and I got in trouble with my boss. Another part of it was someone in the group who would get you to spill your guts and then talk about things said in confidence behind your back, so look out for those kinds of people who will try to get you to complain so they can just run to your boss and tattle on you.

[MariaLCirillo]

My last day at my job is Friday and I start my new job at the end of the month. I’m SO excited, my current job fits nearly every one of these. Can’t wait to be out!!!

[cwilson]

I dont want to quit my job because I'm not getting paid enough or because I can't move up. I want to quit my *career* because the time I have off is the only time I feel alive.

[bigmike]

Sounds like this is mostly geared toward office jobs. I've been driving a truck for nearly a decade and I can't imagine doing anything else. It's not fun but I like it for everything that it's not.

[kate-ne]

Me: knowing for the past three years that I need to leave my job but not actually having the balls to do it 🙃

I am actually in the process of interviewing for a new position in my company after 3 years of being miserable and I am very excited & optimistic about it!! I've been in my current role for over 7 years and realized most of my frustrations with work were due to a lack of being challenged. Fingers crossed I get this new role! 🤞🏼

[dqcmugh]

Thank you Chelsea for articulating so many of the thoughts and emotions I experienced in my previous position. I spent months looking for new employment but could never bring myself to apply because I was too emotionally attached to my job for the wrong reasons. I ended up resigning before finding another position. I simply reached my breaking point, but I am so much happier now!

[megreilly]

I just want to do the job of 1 person (mine), and have the quallity of life in working an 8-hour work day. I DON'T want a title change and I DON'T need a raise - that's just an incentve to keep me working at the same pace I already am.

[kathleenmcdowell]

I love that some of the points she makes are not listed on all of the "signs its time to quit your job" articles out there. I'm in a position where my manager is very growth-focused and has put me up for two promotions that the company hasn't gone with, which makes me feel very undervalued as an employee. I've gone way above and beyond my job description and I'm about to reach my third year there. Definitely time for a change.

[Meloncov]

So concerning that Twitter thread, the issue isn't so much that the CEO hired someone to take over most of their work (that's often necessary as a company grows), it's that they hired an executive assistant and gave them the work of a chief operating officer. The issue isn't the ratio of their work to their bosses--at least, not necessarily--it's that they're almost certainly massively underpaid relative to what they deserve.

[beastsbooksandbeauty]

I was in a job a few years ago that I was really good at and passionate about. I made my manager aware I wanted to work up and we spoke about jobs available within the organisation. I never even made it to interview for these jobs despite being told i was more than capable. One job I was actually doing unpaid at the time on top of my own despite it being extra work and responsibility. I had to train the newly hired person to do the job I had been doing for months. I eventually found out that my manager was stopping me getting these interviews because she didn’t want to have to replace me. I eventually confronted her about it and then left that job. I easily found a job at much higher pay and responsibility by looking elsewhere once I realised I wasn’t going to be allowed to progress. That manager has done the same to others in my old organisation since I left…

[Katiez]

I’ve been rewatching and bouncing around old videos and the hair changed always give me whiplash

[joymae]

I love how she describes all my work complaints in such a neutral professional tone

[earthlingthings]

This is incredibly helpful as a tool to think critically about work. Re-affirms that I desperately need to leave my job