The best advice I got about when to change jobs was from my first manager, who I worked for when I graduated from college. He and I were at my first performance review and I asked for a promotion. He had no available positions, though I was performing well enough to merit one. A position might open up in the following year, it might not. I asked for his advice, and he said:
"a year from now, if you were doing the *exact* same thing you're doing today, would you be happy with that?"
That measure has always been my indicator for deciding when to move on, and I've always been better for it. I left that job the following month. That said, I never left a job without another job lined up; but whenever I can answer "no" to that question, it's been time to start seriously looking.
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The best advice I got about when to change jobs was from my first manager, who I worked for when I graduated from college. He and I were at my first performance review and I asked for a promotion. He had no available positions, though I was performing well enough to merit one. A position might open up in the following year, it might not. I asked for his advice, and he said: "a year from now, if you were doing the *exact* same thing you're doing today, would you be happy with that?" That measure has always been my indicator for deciding when to move on, and I've always been better for it. I left that job the following month. That said, I never left a job without another job lined up; but whenever I can answer "no" to that question, it's been time to start seriously looking.