Quick Tip: Cut Your Losses Before You Regret your Wasted Life
July 19, 2008 by Eric Eggertson
Filed under Marketing
This tip works for executives, employees and just regular folks.
If you can see yourself years from now talking about what a waste of time and energy your job (or relationship, or business venture) was, stop complaining and start getting out of your current situation.
In some cases, I’ve been able to renegotiate my role. Other times, the smartest thing to do was bail quickly and not look back.
I’m not advocating infidelity or corporate backstabbing. But there are some situations where you just can’t win, so stop trying.
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Great advice. I’ve seen so many companies hang on to employees that they know will never succeed and many employees stay afraid of leaving. Every time I’ve left a job when success wasn’t on the horizon, I’ve moved into a better job where I did succeed.