Should you actually quit your job?
The framework we wish someone had walked us through.
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Most quitting advice is written by people who already quit. This one sorts you on the two questions that decide it: whether the problem is local and fixable or structural and permanent, and whether you currently have the runway to act on the answer.
How it works
The quiz has 4 possible results. Each answer option was written to lean toward one of them.
Your result is the one your answers pointed to most often. Skipped questions, and the occasional answer that does not lean toward any result, are not counted.
Alongside the result you see your answer profile: the share of your answers that pointed to each result. Close percentages mean you sit between two results, which is common.
The four exits
The Fixable Situation
Your problem has a name and a face, and people quit jobs over this exact thing every week without ever trying the cheaper option first.
Strip out the one manager, the one project, the one stretch of bad months, and most of what you're feeling goes with it. That's the signature here. Your work is still good, your people are still your people, and when the conditions are right you produce things you're proud of. What you have is a local problem wearing the costume of a career crisis.
The Slow Fade
Nothing is wrong, which is precisely the problem you keep failing to describe to people.
You've got nothing to complain about and no reason to stay. The job is fine. Your colleagues are fine. The pay is fine. And you have been flat for long enough that flatness now reads as your personality rather than your circumstances. When people ask what's wrong, you can't answer, so you say you're fine, which is accurate and not the point.
The Bridge Builder
You already know you're leaving, and the whole question is whether you build the exit or improvise it.
The decision is made. What you're doing now is timing, and you're doing it more deliberately than most: saved search running, runway growing, the vesting date circled, a skill you practice at night. Your current job has become a funding source for the next thing, which is a legitimate use of a job and not something to feel guilty about. The trap is that bridge-building has no natural end. There's always one more milestone that would make the leap safer, and the safety keeps receding as your standard for ready climbs. People spend years in this state, competent and half-present, and the cost lands on their reputation before they notice, since being visibly on the way out for eighteen months is its own kind of damage. Set an exit date with a condition attached, not a feeling: the vest clears, the savings hit a number, the side project earns a certain amount for three straight months. Write it down and tell one person who will ask you about it. Then work backward and list what has to be true by then. Bridges get finished when there's a date on the far side.
Overdue Exit
You knew the answer before you started this, and what you're carrying now is the cost of the delay.
The signals here aren't subtle: Sunday starting on Saturday, the energy that doesn't come back, people close to you saying you've changed. You've moved past the point where this is a career question. It's a health question that happens to involve a job, and the reason you haven't gone is almost always something concrete like coverage, money, or a family situation that makes leaping feel irresponsible. The trap is the belief that you have to solve everything before you can act. You don't. The cost of one more year is not zero and it isn't only emotional; long stretches like this take a measurable bite out of your work, your reputation, and your willingness to try things afterward, which is what makes the next job harder to find than it should be. Two moves, this week. Take whatever time off you're owed, because decisions made while depleted are bad decisions and you've been depleted for months. Then pick the single obstacle that would most change your options, usually money or coverage, and spend one evening finding out what it truly costs rather than what you fear it costs. If you're carrying something heavier than job fatigue, and plenty of people in this bucket are, a doctor or therapist is a reasonable place to start.
What this quiz can’t tell you
- It does not know your income, debts, taxes, dependents or goals, and any real decision turns on those.
- It sorts you by how you answered a set of general questions. It is not a financial plan and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything.
- Markets and personal circumstances change. A result that fits today may not fit next year.
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