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Amy G, so we happened to be talking in the midst of the great resignation of

2021. A lot of people this year have quit their jobs or thinking about

quitting their jobs and this idea of whether or not to quit a job and how to

quit your job. Our questions that nearly all of us will consider at some point

during our careers. Yeah, I definitely thought this through for myself a few

times. Yeah, so you've been writing about this topic for years and recently

you gathered together HBR's best advice and you wrote a guide. That's right. So

let's go through the steps. How you do it? All right. So the first step that

people need to think about is whether or not they're really ready to quit and

whether or not they want to quit. This is an important question. I mean I think

we've all had days, weeks, months where we have thought I am done with this job

and we feel ready to move on. Especially in the middle of what's happening right

now, the great resignation. Some people are calling the big quit. It can be

tempting to think that's the answer, but you really want to think through three

questions. This is advice that comes from career coach Priscilla Clayman. And you

want to think, one, am I working for the right organization? Am I in the right

position? And am I positioned or set up for the future career that I want? If the

answer to any of those three questions is no, then you need to think through, okay,

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