How to Quit Your Tech Job (the right way)

Thinking about quitting your job?

Here’s my top 3 tips on how to do it (the right way) ⬇️

1. Timing is important

It’s always better to leave on the 1st of the month than on the 31st because employee benefits are renewed on a monthly basis.

If you leave on the 1st, it’s like getting a full extra month of benefits. But if you leave on the 31st, your benefits may end the very next day.

So try to leave closer to the 1st if possible.

2. Consider trade-offs.

Quitting is a trade-off. You’re weighing that the negatives of staying outweigh all the negatives of losing out on perks and short-term income.

If you have to cut vacations, move away from friends and family, and say no to more social events, then those negatives might outweigh the negatives of your job.

In that case it may be better to stay.

3. Act with urgency

If your career is not going the right way, and it’s not a temporary issue that will resolve itself, take action quickly.

If you stay an extra two years at a job you wanted to leave and did this over five jobs in your lifetime, that’s ten years of your life spent doing work you never wanted to do.

I discuss these tips and more in my latest article.

Article highlights include:

1. Handling the severance package conversation
2. Why you should collect more assets while you still have income
3. Why you should consider your obligations to others before quitting

Link here: https://michaellin.substack.com/p/how-to-quit-your-job-the-right-way

Happy to answer any further questions you have!