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7 Career Questions That Will Help You Decide Whether to Stay or Go

7 Career Questions That Will Help You Decide Whether to Stay or Go



Published by Kathryn Minshew



For years, I thought my professional calling was working in international development.  

I idolized development and aid workers, imagining my future self running vaccination campaigns or defusing international conflicts while speaking multiple languages and traveling around the world. In college, I interned for the U.S. embassy in Cyprus and the World Health Organization, eager to learn the ropes and make a positive impact. And as a management consultant at McKinsey, I did everything I could to get on projects that would let me have a hand in the development and nonprofit world.

So, when I landed a position doing strategic planning and implementation for vaccine introductions in East Africa, I thought I had landed my ultimate dream job.

In reality, I hadn’t.

Yes, I was doing incredibly valuable work, but most of my day-to-day involved costing out implementation in Excel spreadsheets, building PowerPoint decks to present our approach to groups of officials, and dealing with various bureaucracies. While the people I worked with were phenomenal, I ultimately realized that the work really wasn’t making use of my best skills and abilities. At the close of one particularly successful project, I started to feel itchy feet.  

Making the decision to leave that job was difficult for many reasons – not the least of which was that I was walking away from what I had always considered my dream career and starting the next chapter essentially from scratch. But looking back, I knew in my gut it was the right decision. When I returned to the U.S., I began working on a small website – a project that did make use of those skills I wanted to be using and that eventually led to me founding The Muse. I haven’t looked back since.  

Whether you, like me, aren’t sure you’re passionate about your work anymore, or you’re itching for a change, pondering new opportunities, or just wanting to try something else, I know how hard it is to make a change versus staying the course that you’ve plotted for yourself. But I also know that career paths are long and rarely linear anymore, and that if you’re not feeling fulfilled in your day-to-day, there’s no better time than now to consider what you might like to be doing instead.

How do you know if it’s really time to make a change? Here are a few of the questions I asked myself when considering leaving my job. Hopefully, they will help you decide if a career move is right for you, too.  

1. Do I want to do this for the next five years – or does the thought of that make me panic?

2. When I look at the opportunities ahead of me at my job, am I excited – or do I feel stressed, anxious, or bored?

3. Are there other roles, opportunities, projects, or clients I could work on at my current job that are interesting to me – or not?

4. Am I still excited about my work – or am I holding onto this job because it’s what I’m used to, because it’s what I thought I wanted to do, or because I’m afraid to make a change?

5. Does this job make use of my best skills – or am I feeling frustrated that my abilities aren’t being put to good use?

6. Does my current employer value growth, learning, and new opportunities for employees – or would I have more support elsewhere?

7. Is my work still aligned with my values, interests, and goals – or have my needs changed over the years?

Deciding whether to stay or go is never an easy decision. But hopefully, these questions will get you thinking – and, one way or another, point you in the direction of your career dreams.  


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