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Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons

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There are three connected posts in this series. This one, How you know when it’s time to leave, and Taking time off. I hope they’re helpful to you! Someone asked me to share how I think about choosing jobs and roles particularly once you’re at a point in your career when you have choice (or maybe in a job market where there’s a lot of choice). This is an area where I’m still learning and growing (always, I think) but after many years of making my own choices and helping friends make theirs, I’ve got a set of tools that may be helpful to you. Before I dive in, let me say two things: 1) My basic belief is that happiness at work is fundamental to high performance. Yes, I have wonderful friends who perform incredibly well in misery and anxiety, but I don’t believe it is healthy or sustainable for anyone to do that over a lifetime. In fact, I believe it takes years off of your life. I don’t know that I’m right, but it’s what I believe and it’s certainly how I manage my choices and what

Choosing your next job Molly Graham Feb 22, 2022 ∙ Paid 67 3 4 Share 👋Hi! I'm Molly. This is where I share the lessons I’ve learned from building fast-moving, messy, ambitious companies. For more from me, you can also find me on the WorkLife Podcast , on LinkedIn , and in Glue Club, a community for leaders who care about building great companies . There are three connected posts in this series. This one, How you know when it’s time to leave , and Taking time off . I hope they’re helpful to you! Someone asked me to share how I think about choosing jobs and roles particularly once you’re at a p

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