你该在一份工作上呆多久？

    四年（48个月）

    你可以得到在那里工作的“全部学分”，除非有明显的证据证明你表现不佳或停滞不前。成就增加，最好至少有过一次升职，是最理想的情况。如果你没有得到过升职，你负责的项目也没有变得更好，你的境遇尚可以接受，但在未来两年你必须有所作为。

    六年（72个月）

    此时，如果你没有得到升职或更好的项目，这份工作将开始给你带来伤害。工作满四年时间，除去入职后的第一年，其他三年没有起伏，或者有平级调动，这种情形还是可以接受的。四年意味着你做好了自己的工作，给了公司充分的机会，没有让太多人厌烦，现在选择继续前进。如果你6年之后依旧没有明显的升职记录，这就会让人觉得你胸无大志，虽然你还不至于糟糕到连工作都保不住的程度，但你也只能算是平庸之辈。但如果你能不断获得升迁，这份工作可以做多长时间呢？答案是——没有上限。

    斯蒂芬•冯•伊莫霍夫的回答

    如果你真的不喜欢自己的工作，那就应该离开。就是这么回事。试图定义做一份工作的“最短”时间，根本是在开玩笑。

    关于何时离职最合适，许多答案在试图确立一些复杂的规则。这纯粹是无稽之谈。这是你的生活，你只需要按照自己的规则生活，其他人的规则与你无关。

    “不满8个月被认为非常糟糕！”

    “18个月是社会公认的下限！”

    “2年好于18个月，3年好于2年，4年好于3年”

    别听这些。如果一份工作不适合你，只要你想离开随时都可以离开。要对自己的决定充满信心。如果未来的雇主问你为什么在2年、2个月或2天后离开之前的公司，你就告诉他们原因。

    告诉他们实情。告诉他们你在寻找什么。告诉他们为什么之前的工作非常糟糕，你学到了什么，为什么新工作与之前不同。要坚强。要自信。

    没有人应该被迫在一份他们厌恶的工作上受罪，仅仅因为离职“可能是个糟糕的决定”，这份工作待遇丰厚，或者其他什么原因。生活是一场旅行，而不是终点。如果你不喜欢这次旅程，它的意义何在？跳上另一列火车，继续前行吧。

    生命只有一次。你要对自己负责。

    Four years (48 months)

    This will get you ‘full credit’ for working there, unless something makes it clear that you were an under performer or stagnating. If you had increasing scope of accomplishment and preferably at least one title change, you’re fine. If you haven’t been promoted and your projects aren’t getting better, you’re still OK at this point but you have two years in which to make your next move.

    Six years (72 months)

    This is the point at which it starts to hurt you if you’re not getting promoted or better projects. Four years with an on-boarding year and then a flat trend or lateral moves for three is fine. Four years means you did your job, gave the company a thorough chance, didn’t piss too many people off, and moved on. After 6 years without an obvious record of promotions, it suggests that a person is unambitious and, while not so terrible as to be unable to keep a job, thoroughly mediocre. If you keep getting promoted, however, there’s no upper limit on how long you can stay at a job.

    Answer by Stefan Von Imhof

    If you don’t like your job you should leave. Period. Attempting to define a “minimum” amount of time to stay at a job is a joke.

    There are a few answers here attempting to establish complex rules for when it’s okay to leave. It’s all baloney. This is your life, and you don’t have to live by anyone’s rules but your own.

    “Under 8 months is perceived to be terrible!”

    “18 months is the socially accepted minimum!”

    “2 years is better than 18 months, and 3 years is better than 2, and 4 is better than 3″

    Don’t listen to any of that. If a job isn’t right for you, you leave whenever you want. Have full confidence in your decision. If a future employer asks you why you left after 2 years, 2 months, or 2 days, you tell them.

    Tell them the truth. Tell them what you’re looking for. Tell them why your old job was terrible, what you learned, and why this new job is different. Stay strong. Have confidence.

    Nobody should be forced to suffer at a job they hate just because it ‘might look bad’ later, because it pays well, or for any other reason. Life is a journey, not a destination. If you don’t like the journey, what’s the point? Hop on another train and keep moving.

    You only live once. You owe it to yourself.