Do Not Quit Your Job If These Signs Appear

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AVAlexander VolchekIrritationF/Friend / friendsTimeAcceptanceWork, profession, and career path

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• 00:00Don't quit if these signs start appearing. Someone goes to work every day and works. They may like the job or dislike it. They work.Time · Acceptance
• 01:44This happens to a great many people. It can come from all sorts of different causes, but what matters is that this state has appeared inside you: you aren't happy with the job itself.Irritation
• 03:27In other words, this person seems to take all the attention for themselves, and it starts weighing on us so heavily. Even irritating us, to some extent. Weighing on you because you feel as though the ground beneath you is shrinking.Irritation · Children · Wife
• 05:08Live through this at a calm pace. And number four: people on the team start saying the company isn't what it used to be, that something's wrong, that the company used to be great, working here used to be great, but something happened…Live through this at a calm pace.
• 06:46This state of observing, of living through things. Give yourself time to live through it: two, three, four months, roughly that long. It leads to incredibly important results.Time · Acceptance
• 08:21You know the problem is there, and you live with it for three or four months, with that problem. And you want the problem to disappear. The easiest thing to do is simply quit.Time · Friend / friends
• 09:56Everyone says the company is sinking, and we have to hurry and run with everyone else, so that we absolutely don't end up alone at the end.Time

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• 00:48

  And doing this is incredibly important, because otherwise you may notice this incredible cycle in your life: three, five, ten, fifteen, twenty years have passed, yet the situation at work has been very strange.

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• 03:45

  You see how pleased management is with them, while you have this strange feeling that the person is bad: for example, that they're deceiving the company, or bringing it the wrong kinds of opportunities, or overstating their results, or taking advantage of someone else's success.

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• 04:20

  The best thing you can do overall is to start communicating with them neutrally, professionally.

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• 04:51

  Because it's better to live through problems like these with a colleague at work than to have that same incredible irritation arise in your family: toward your husband or wife, for example, or your parents or children.

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• 06:56

  The first thing you gain, and actually the most important, is that you broaden your perception of the situation as it unfolds and allow life to run its course.

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• 07:56

  Because, for the most part, you quit because of your own fear, your own ego, and your own desire to get away from the problem at that particular moment.

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• 08:11

  Getting away from a problem means not being with that problem every evening.

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• 09:51

  Often we feel that when people around us say the company is sinking, we have to quickly, together—

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• 10:32

  This company that isn't what it used to be: every day it will keep being different from what it was, because a company that scales up and develops, a team that scales up and develops, an environment that scales up and develops, definitely aren't what they used to be.

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• 10:59

  It has this striking title: “What I Did After Hiring and Firing More Than a Thousand People.”

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