Set a Job Expiration Date
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Decide Your Own Moving Date
Alas, the rules have changed. Factories don't work so well anymore, companies don't keep their end of the bargain -- 10,000 layoffs in one day -- and smart employees should reconsider as well.
When you get a new job, set an expiration date. Maybe it's two years or three years. Whatever. Write it down, and then promise yourself you'll find a new job to take this job's place on that date. When you find the new job, go have a talk with your boss. Explain your desire to make dramatic, nonlinear jumps in your career. Explain you've got this other job that represents the kind of jump you want to make.
If your employer respects big ideas and great people, it will probably find room for you in a different division or at a higher level. If it cannot or will not, you need to take that other job.
I'll make it easy for you.
Print this out and write down your expiration date right here: ____________.
See, that wasn't so hard. Now stick this in your underwear drawer and don't forget or get stuck
