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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ellen Reeves" data-source="post: 97188" data-attributes="member: 16926"><p>Your phrase "sticking it out" says a lot. But let's start with the basics. If you're being physically or emotionally harassed or abused in any way, or if you are being seriously taken advantage of, you need to find a new job right away and report the situation. Life's too short. By taken advantage of, I mean, for example: I had a student who was exceptionally competent and her bosses figured that out right away. They began dumping work well beyond her job description (but part of theirs) on her and leaving the office early while she stayed late every night to finish it. This might sound "normal" but it isn't, and they crossed a line. She got no promotion, new title, or raise and was miserable. Of course I think we should all have jobs we like, but, then again, we aren't necessarily paid to do what we love. They give us money to do stuff that needs to be done whether we like it or not. So how soon can you leave a job? Well, you don't want to get a reputation as a quitter or job-hopper. Often I find that people start thinking about leaving a job before they've really maxed out on what their workplace has to offer. Before you leave, you should know what the next job you want is, so you can try to get another title, a raise, and more experience at your current job to position you for the next move. Perhaps you can take courses or learn another computer language or volunteer for a project you're interested in. You know the ropes and are a known quantity; if things are going well, even if you don't love it, I wouldn't be so quick to start again at the bottom of the totem pole. Set up informational and exploratory interviews with people at all levels where you're working, with clients, and with people outside the company at places you're interested in working. I think it's better to do this while you're still employed. I do think it's worth staying at least a year to see a company through all its seasons and cycles, and then trying to move within the company if you can---but if you can't, you can't, and then it's a matter of saying confidently when asked "why did you stay only x months at Company Q?" that the job did not turn out to be as advertised, it wasn't the right fit, you learned a great deal and made every effort to learn as much as you could before deciding to leave, but the longer you stayed the more you realized it was time to move into a different position and that wasn't possible where you were.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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