Top Ten reasons why people quit or want to quit their jobs.

A lot of my friends call me when they want to quit or are thinking of quitting their jobs. And this topic came up recently with a friend of mine who has nothing to complain about in terms of money of power, but he was thinkin of a shift anyway. Most often people quote promotions or money (or lack thereoff) or boss/peer issues as reasons. But i believe there are only two reasons why people quit. and all others are sub-sets of the two. These are:

• They got what they wanted (or needed)

or

• They didnt get what they wanted (or needed) from the job

Note - Want and need are completely two different things, and i shall not get into the semantics of that.

Now that the reasons for quitting are established, lets get into the top 10 excuses for quitting a job, which arise from the above mentioned 2 reasons. (In no particular order)

1. Hate the boss/peers/ team
2. Hate my work content - I think im not doing "value added stuff"
3. Work life imbalanced, heavily in favor of work
4. Too much bench-time (Idle mind is the devils workshop)
5. Didnt get promoted even though i deserved to
6. Dont get paid as much i deserve to
7. Office politics - People out to scuttle my career like its the Black Pearl (Refer Pirates of the carribean)
8. Have great work, decent peers, decent boss, but no career path ahead as it is top heavy already
9. Have great work, decent peers, decent boss, but my role is too stifling and has no scope for making independent decisions
10. The organization doesnt know where it is going nor where i am going with it...

Thats it. The great listing...But i think all material things being equal, its only 2 things tht really motivate a person to quit - Either your hatred towards your boss is stronger than your love for your work, or Your work content sucks so much that u are willing to give up good money, great boss and the bestest peers to move on.

Frankly there are more reasons why people dont quit than there are for people quitting. But thats another post on another day best written when im in a more optimistic frame of mind

A good quiz to take to check whether you shud be looking for a new job ...

http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/change/20050216-krantz.html