你如何判断当前的工作该不该辞

    在谷歌工作期间，我意识到许多项目要么没有具体的发布途径，或者审批流程不透明，使我很难看清楚或控制这些流程，这时候，警报开始显现。能够发布产品对我而言非常重要，因为我想学习如何创建优秀的产品，而及时的迭代反馈则是学习的必要基础。我预测了一下在合理情况下，多工作一年能够取得的成就和可能发布的产品，结果无法令我满意，于是我选择了离开。如果留在那里，我肯定也能学到更多东西——我可以深入研究更多主要系统的内部结构，但我的学习速率与最开始时的速度已经无法相提并论。

    后来我之所以离开网络视频服务公司Ooyala，也是因为我在那家公司的学习陷入停滞。我在那里学会了如何打造和销售一款企业产品，了解了flash视频与分析的复杂性，掌握项目估算和团队组织等能力。在我离开的时候，我很清楚如果加入一个更小的、发展更快的团队，自己可以继续学习工程设计和产品构建。我在Ooyala工作一段时间之后才发现的一个影响因素，是我对企业产品一点都不感到兴奋，也没有研究的动力，我更希望参与每天都会用到的消费者产品的开发。

    在Quora工作两年以来，我很高兴自己依旧能持续高速学习新的知识，当然，我们的产品本身也是以学习为中心，这对我有很大帮助。

    大学三年级在微软（Microsoft）做暑期实习期间，从一位朋友的导师那里听来的建议令我受益匪浅：至少每隔两年对自己在职业生涯中的位置进行审视和反思。即便你对自己的工作非常满意，这样做也会迫使你去检验自己是否真的喜欢现在的工作，是否学到了新的知识，而不仅仅是感到舒适而已。

    J•迈克•史密斯的回答，职业导师

    这是个很好的问题。但我们很难知道具体在什么时候应该辞职。

    一个简单的信号是你对自己正在做或能做的事情不再感到兴奋。你开始问自己为什么还要留在这里。

    但话虽如此，曾经与我共事的一位高管，有一份很棒的工作（老板喜欢他，有丰厚的薪水，还有充分的自主权），却准备放弃这一切，然而，他并未意识到，相对于他当时的生活现状（3个年纪很小的孩子，一份不需要经常出差的工作）而言，这份工作非常划算。或许这不是一份终生职业，但确实还不错，因为在孩子们走向青春期的这几年时间里，他可以在家人身上投入更多精力。

    我认为，采取更平衡的观点来看待这个问题将很有帮助。至少对我而言，工作非常重要。但俗话说得好，晚上睡觉的时候，亲吻你脸颊的可不是你的工作。在因为一件事情不完美而决定放弃它之前，不妨审视一下生活中的其他部分（工作、自己、家庭、社区等），这会对你有所帮助。

    瓦特萨拉•舒克拉的回答，职业与生活教练

    许多迹象会提醒你应该开始寻找新工作，但最初往往会被忽视，直到它们变得显而易见，才会引起你的重视。你正在考虑跳槽的事实，意味着当前的工作中肯定有某些因素令你不舒服。对我而言，最重要的原因是潜在的倦怠。

    Warning flags for me at Google started to appear when I realized that many projects either had no concrete launch paths or depended on non-transparent approval processes over which I had little visibility or control. Being able to launch products was important to the extent that I wanted to learn how to build great products, and quick, iterative feedback is a necessary foundation for learning. When I projected what I could accomplish and reasonably launch by staying an additional year, I didn’t feel satisfied, so I left. There was certainly more I could have learned by staying — I could have dug into the internals of more major systems — but my rate of learning no longer mirrored what I encountered when I first started.

    I similarly left Ooyala when I felt that my own learning rate at the company began to plateau. While I was there, I learned about building and selling an enterprise product, the intricacies of flash video and analytics, project estimation and team organization, and more. I left when it became clear to me that I could learn much more on engineering and on building a product by joining a smaller and faster-growing team. A contributing factor that I only discovered after working at Ooyala for a while was that I wasn’t nearly as excited and motivated to work on an enterprise product as I was to work on a consumer product that I would actually use everyday.

    Having worked at Quora for two years, I’m happy that I’m still continuously learning new things at a good rate, and it certainly helps that the product itself is also so learning-focused.

    When I interned at Microsoft the summer of my junior year in college, I received a good piece of advice second hand from a friend’s mentor: always re-examine and reflect on where you are in your career at least every two years. Even if you’re perfectly happy with your job, the exercise forces you to check that you are actually enjoying your work and learning on the job rather than just being comfortable.

    Answer J. Mike Smith, career coach

    Good question. It’s tough to answer and know exactly when to quit.

    The simple (not simplistic) sign is that you’re not excited about anything you’re doing or can do; you start asking yourself why you’re sticking around.

    Having said that though, I just worked with an executive who had a great role (boss loved him, paid well, lots of autonomy, etc.) and who was ready to pack it in but just didn’t realize that for where he was in life (3 younger kids, a job that didn’t cause him to be out of town frequently) he had a pretty sweet deal. Perhaps not a forever deal, but a great role to have at a time where he could put energy into his family before the kids went away for a few years to adolescence.

    I think it helps to take a more broadly balanced view. Work, at least for me, is pretty important. But as the saying goes, your job doesn’t kiss you on the cheek at night when you go to bed. It helps to take a look at all the things that make up your life (work, self, family, community, etc.) before you chuck in one element because it’s not perfect.

    Answer by Vatsala Shukla, career and life coach

    The indicators that it is time to move on start coming to your attention but you ignore them until they cannot be ignored. The fact that you are thinking about it means that there is something that is not quite working for you in your present situation. The most important reason, for me would be potential burnout.