In the last article, I told everyone that I quit my job, and many friends asked me why I quit. I had not planned to write it, but I happened to see a topic on Zhihu: Under what circumstances would you quit without hesitation? So seriously wrote this article, I hope that the reasons for my resignation to the readers also have reference value.

A few days ago, I finished the resignation process and got the resignation agreement. Five months in the logistics industry came to an end. My resignation is not about my colleagues or the company’s exploitation.

The reason for resigning is that the company benefits are too good, and the only bad thing is the technology. As a programmer, leaving work at 5:30 PM, working leisurely, taking two days off, and taking 17 days of annual vacation are probably what many people dream of. This happened to me at my company. But when it really happened to me, I found it was a kind of torture rather than a kind of enjoyment.

Cooking a frog in warm water is a terrible thing, and leisurely work will slowly make you lose the ability to use your brain, and even unwilling to work hard to achieve a small goal. Here are some questions I thought about before quitting:

1. What do I want to do VS what is the company doing

Everyone who does data analysis wants to make the analysis produce value. The results of the analysis are applied to the business and drive the development of the business. What I want to do is the same: discover value from data and urge business to generate value. This is the goal I set for myself after I entered the data analysis industry.

My current company is in the traditional logistics industry, and I spend more time doing crawler and logistics data report. Even after the departure of the last boss, our team is like a piece of sand, without a goal, without an analyst who has led the logistics industry for more than a year to lead us to make plans to achieve the goal. This allowed our team to provide temporary requirements and kanban maintenance across departments for almost a month.

So: What I want to do is not equal to what the company is doing

Input value vs. output value

Output value is about what I’m doing in the company to use the knowledge and the creation of value, in the company, I would like to do most is to use before I enter this company has mastered the knowledge constantly, then output, bring to the company a lot of value, including but not limited to: line pricing, the development of members, and competing goods analysis and so on.

The so-called input value is the knowledge I can get in the company, and the value that the company or department can give me feedback. At this point in the company, I’m doing some self-learning, which is the only way I can input value, in addition to running errands providing temporary needs and kanban maintenance.

Therefore, I found that during my time in the company, my technical output was far greater than my input. This is not the state I want, I want to output at the same time can maintain the input, which the company can not give.

3. Would it be better to quit?

If you don’t have a good exit strategy, don’t rush to the end now. No matter when, before leaving the job to think about the future road how to go? Will you be better off after you leave?

I chose to quit when I got the offer from a team THAT I was looking forward to. Although the offer is no longer in the same city, I will go there without hesitation even if it is half of China. Young for what?

When I really think and answer the above questions, I will not hesitate to quit the job, though this is my first job after graduation, while the job just five months, even though many people say with me this time to resign to me after the job interview will have a big impact, but I still choose directly to resign.

Also, I hope you, who are planning to quit your job, or who are thinking of quitting your job, think carefully about the above three questions and make a decision. Life is short, choose what you want to do, otherwise what?

Of course, I always think the company I just quit is a great company, from great leaders, great colleagues and a great corporate culture. Finally wish the enterprise can be listed as soon as possible! I want my former colleagues to make it big.

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