Two types of people struggle most with job changes: those who fear the unknown and conscientious people reluctant to break their commitment to employers. The tension is real: staying can make you miserable, but leaving feels like betrayal.
There's two types of people that find changing jobs incredibly scary. Number one is people who are risk averse, naturally risk averse. These are people who have a fear that change is actually going to hurt them, because fear of the unknown is something that's particularly scary to them. You know who you are if you're a really risk averse person. The second type of person who struggles with job changes are people who are high in conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is one of the five big personality traits. Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. And people who are really, really conscientious, they don'. Walk away from stuff because they have a commitment to it. So my dad, one of the reasons that he was on the expert career path is because he was an incredibly conscientious individual. And, you know, he felt that he had committed his career to a particular employer and they had committed his career to him. And that was the deal. That was the implicit bargain. Most of you, if you're under 40, you're like, what, are you kidding me? That's insane, right? But that's old school. That's kind of the way that people were back in the day. So most people don't think that particular way. But conscientious people nonetheless, they do have more of a struggle leaving their jobs. So. So they stay put. But that can be a problem. So it can be scary to move, but unhappy to stay.
