Job advice needed...

[mitch buchannon]

Apologies for the tired subject matter. I searched around and didn't find anything in the older threads...

When looking for a new job, is it a bad idea to quit the one you currently have? Is it better to remain employed and avoid the gap on your resume or is it better to give your job search 100% of your time and effort.

Here's the skinny: I'm don't really like what I do and have decided it's not going to be my did for the long haul, so I'm going to find something else to do.

Any advice from wise maggots would be appreciated.

[Buzzworthy]

DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB! Not till you find another. An employed worker looks so much more marketable if they currently have a job and are trying to "better themselves and their situation". And NEVER bitch about the old job during a new interview or ever really at a new job. However they will ask why you are moving on. "Better myself and situation" mode of thinking works.

STAY EMPLOYED!!!

ALWAYS STAY POSITVE TOO, no new employer wants a whiner that did not like their last job.


Stick it out till you find something else.


And anyone is the workforce on a career track will have the same thing to say. Now if you want to go play, that is a whole nother story.


You still have plenty of time in the day to persue another job, you have to simply make it work.

[shamrockpow]

Just try not to leave copies of your resume in the copier...

[truth]

Quit your job. Do not seek other employment. Enjoy.

For further info call phUnk.

[mitch buchannon]

Thanks for the heads up about the resumes on the copier...

If I lived in Utah/Tahoe/Colorado/PNW... I think I would stick it out at my current gig to save for an unemployed winter. However, here in Chicago, the winter doesn't really offer much except for frostbite.

I definitely see your point about marketability. Some of the problems I'm facing are:

(1) desire to change job functions/industries. I have been working in options trading for a little over 3 years now and it just doesn't float my boat. I would like to get into sales of some sort, possibly in wholesale lending or something along those lines. (if anyone knows anyone... )

(2) I sit on a desk of 5 people during the day, so browsing job ads and working on contacts is a very difficult thing to do between 8 and 4, which happens to be when the most contacts can be made (it seems).

Muchas gracias for the advice.

[truth]

Thanks for the heads up about the resumes on the copier...

If I lived in Utah/Tahoe/Colorado/PNW... I think I would stick it out at my current gig to save for an unemployed winter. However, here in Chicago, the winter doesn't really offer much except for frostbite.

I definitely see your point about marketability. Some of the problems I'm facing are:

(1) desire to change job functions/industries. I have been working in options trading for a little over 3 years now and it just doesn't float my boat. I would like to get into sales of some sort, possibly in wholesale lending or something along those lines. (if anyone knows anyone... )

(2) I sit on a desk of 5 people during the day, so browsing job ads and working on contacts is a very difficult thing to do between 8 and 4, which happens to be when the most contacts can be made (it seems).

Muchas gracias for the advice.

If you want to stay in Chitown and are serious about sales I might have a gig for you. The job would require travel in the midwest usually via company car. You'd be on the road 1-3 nights a week, never on weekends. Starting salary would be in the 70k arena and the salesman who has the territory now would train you. Your trading knowledge would be useful as this is a commodity based business.

[mitch buchannon]

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[Woodsy]

When looking for a new job, is it a bad idea to quit the one you currently have? Is it better to remain employed and avoid the gap on your resume or is it better to give your job search 100% of your time and effort.

jobs are like women, easier to find when you have one.