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Why I leave a job

Jason McCreary on November 20, 2017

After a short time I decided to leave my job as a Software Engineer at The New York Times. The New York Times! A dream job with a prestigious compa...
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Rafal Pienkowski

Nice article. I agree with all of those reasons. Personally I think that a good atmosphere in a team is also important. I had a lot of situations that I was working overtime and my colleagues made some jokes, told something funny etc. which made me work easier 😁

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Thompson Marzagão • Edited

There's also something to be said about doing a lateral move within larger organizations. It can feel like a new job with a fresh perspective and potential for growth while leveraging existing relationships and the knowledge you have about the workplace and the culture.

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Jason McCreary

Thompson! Great point, my friend.

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Kyle Stephens

Great list. There are nuanced little 'nice-to-haves' that we'd look for but I'd definitely agree that these are the 3 main ones - fail to provide one or more of these and any amount of those extra little things won't amount to much.

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Jason McCreary

Exactly. Plenty of other things that can patch holes. But offer little real support when others are missing…

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Massimo Artizzu

And don't forget: you must have the courage to actually leave and look around for pastures yet to know.

I wish I had it in my past working life.

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Jason McCreary

It's important to remember you enter into a mutual agreement to spend your time and talent for a company who in turn agrees to pay you a reasonable amount for that time. That's the contract. If something from the agreement is met, both sides have the right to break that contract. It's business, not personal.