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Would you give up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity just because you are in the middle of a project?
I work on projects that are assigned to a single person and that usually take 1-2 year to complete. When one project is complete, another starts immediately, or maybe within 1-2 weeks. Then as it starts it will be cramped with tight deadlines until the end.
Now a job opportunity comes along that me (or you) have waited for many years. Would you decline it? If you accept it, then your managers will be angry. But, do they have the right to confine you into 1-week-in-a-year window for advancing your career with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities?
What would you do? Give up your career for your employer's interests, or would you follow your own best interest? Quit and become unemployed for many years at the end of the project until the opportunity comes along? Big opportunity jobs usually dont hire unemployed people, so its a dead end.
#1 Rule: Look out for your best interest first
I will not give up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or a better opportunity just because I am in a middle of a project. You just need to give the standard 2-3 weeks notice.
Believe me, company will lay people off in the middle of a project as well.
Don't let your ego get in the way of good judgement. "Who will finish my project?" You are NOT the only fish in the gene pool, or office pool, or football pool, or whatever pool that's supposed to be.
Would you give up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity just because you are in the middle of a project?
I work on projects that are assigned to a single person and that usually take 1-2 year to complete. When one project is complete, another starts immediately, or maybe within 1-2 weeks. Then as it starts it will be cramped with tight deadlines until the end.
Now a job opportunity comes along that me (or you) have waited for many years. Would you decline it? If you accept it, then your managers will be angry. But, do they have the right to confine you into 1-week-in-a-year window for advancing your career with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities?
What would you do? Give up your career for your employer's interests, or would you follow your own best interest? Quit and become unemployed for many years at the end of the project until the opportunity comes along? Big opportunity jobs usually dont hire unemployed people, so its a dead end.
If the project takes years, then it's just a job like any other and they can get someone else. Hopefully you didn't have to sign something saying you wouldn't leave an unfinished project. Regardless, I would not worry about the employer. I guarantee they wouldn't give you a second thought if keeping you were not in their best interests.
#1 Rule: Look out for your best interest first
I will not give up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or a better opportunity just because I am in a middle of a project. You just need to give the standard 2-3 weeks notice.
Believe me, company will lay people off in the middle of a project as well.
Would you give up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity just because you are in the middle of a project?
I work on projects that are assigned to a single person and that usually take 1-2 year to complete. When one project is complete, another starts immediately, or maybe within 1-2 weeks. Then as it starts it will be cramped with tight deadlines until the end.
Now a job opportunity comes along that me (or you) have waited for many years. Would you decline it? If you accept it, then your managers will be angry. But, do they have the right to confine you into 1-week-in-a-year window for advancing your career with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities?
What would you do? Give up your career for your employer's interests, or would you follow your own best interest? Quit and become unemployed for many years at the end of the project until the opportunity comes along? Big opportunity jobs usually dont hire unemployed people, so its a dead end.
^^ This. Always this. That doesn't mean you crap all over everyone. But you need to do what you need to do.
Anecdotally, you also need to understand that you can't control how your managers/peers react. If you are a key personnel, you may be met with some less than ideal reactions. But that's their problem, not yours.
You are replaceable and the project will get completed without you.
^^this.
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