The average worker will change jobs a dozen times before retirement. Some changes will lead to bigger paychecks, better benefits, or career growth. Not all of these job changes will be positive, however. Before making a major change in your career path, the key is to ensure you’re doing it for the right reasons. Sometimes, making a career change is the wrong move. Here are five signs that it may not be a good time to make a career change.

1. You Are Overstressed

Change is constant, and sometimes in life, everything seems to change at once. When your personal and professional life is busy and stressful, it may not be a good time to change jobs. While it’s natural to want more stability and security in a stress-filled life, moving from your current job to a new position could cause more upheaval rather than ease it.

2. Your Judgement is Clouded

Your perception may be driving you toward a career change. Whether you’re experiencing personal or professional upheaval, you may be tempted to change things. While that might be the right thing to do, it’s better to make those choices when you are in a more stable, rested, and healthy state of mind and being.

3. You’re Having a Bad Day (or Week, or Month)

Even the best jobs come with bad times. Complex projects, extra hours, and conflicts with co-workers can all take a toll, but these issues are all temporary. Even bad relationships with managers or supervisors won’t last forever.

4. You’re Focused on Money

If your only motivation for changing jobs is pursuing a higher salary, you may want to rethink that move. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make more money, but it should not be the only reason. You may leave a job you like in pursuit of more money and find yourself in a position that is a bad fit. What’s worse, that higher paycheck may not be so high after taxes are taken out. You may also find that higher pay in the new job means worse employee benefits.

5. You’re Afraid You’re Missing Out

If you are discontented with your job after seeing how happy other people seem in theirs on social media, don’t quit! It is too easy to compare how you feel in your career to how others seem to feel in theirs. Online content is carefully curated, emphasizing the positives and superlatives of people’s careers, not the moments of doubt and failure they have.

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