When is the right time to seek something new?

Is this the right time to change jobs? Or yet, does it make sense to change your career at this point in time?

So, how do we know when the right time to seek something new is?

In a previous post I had addressed the issue of how long one should stay with the same company (read here).

But sometimes the issue is more complex than that. It might be something that impacts your professional life, but it doesn’t exclusively have to. For example, it might involve following your spouse to another country; or yet giving up a corporate career to become self-employed or open your own business. Such decisions are much more complicated than changing companies.So, how do we know when the right time is? The answer seems obvious, but it came to me when I watched for the second time the play “The Immoral Soul” (with Clarice Niskier) last week.

In the play Clarice says that we should leave behind the narrow path in search of a wider space. She also states, “In certain moments of our lives we face situations that cause us to feel physical or moral discomfort. These spaces that have become narrow—which have helped us evolve and grow—become stifling and limiting.”

And this is very well represented by this Biblical story:

Sometimes we think there’s no way out and ahead of us there’s only the vastness of the insurmountable sea.
Regardless of your religious belief the analogy that sometimes we have to cross a sea in search of a wider space seems to make sense. And like Clarice Niskier says in the play, if we show courage and determination in doing it the universe will conspire in our favor.

And all of us have already overcome a vastness of water from a narrow path toward the wider space, from the womb to the world. And I don’t believe this is an easy thing; all newborns come out crying a lot!

So, when is the right to seek something new? When the place you’re at becomes a narrow space and you’re ready to be born again.

GOOD LUCK!