When to start looking for a job
Is It Time To Start Looking For A New Job?
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let's go to Vicki who's on the line in a
Warner Robins Georgia Vicki you're on
the Ken Coleman show I can't are you
doing I'm living the dream Vicki how are
you I'm good good yes so I have a
question for you so um I currently work
for a nonprofit organization I make them
about 28,000 a year it's very rare for
promotion opportunities and raises to
come about so I guess my question is in
a budget run organization and what is
the best way if any to ask for an
all-around raise is it even worth
pursuing or should I go out and look for
a better higher-paying opportunity with
growth and raised potentials well those
are all the right questions but I can't
answer them until I ask you a question
and I need to know do you want to do
this work that you're doing of this type
of work whether it's at this particular
nonprofit or not is this the sweet spot
for you is this what you want to do long
term I like it but it's not my dream job
okay what is your dream job I would love
to be like a personal trainer or a
fitness coach and you're working at a
non-profit yeah it's my first job out of
college no no no here's a deal what
makes you hear me I'm not knocking you I
just repeated back to you our
circumstances and you heard it didn't
you will hit you like a thud didn't it
yeah so the answer your question is no
you don't need to stay there and ask for
a raise because in a non-profit the
incomes are very very fixed because of
the nature of the game it's a
fundraising model
it's the many many many many many
nonprofits don't have a true revenue
model outside of charitable donations
and so they run on a very tight budget
and you're not gonna get much of a bump
and why stay somewhere it's your first
job out of college so you're young your
whole life's in front of you there's no
reason for you to stay there to get
what's gonna be even if you got a bump
it would be such a small incremental
bump that it's not worth it I want you
to be living on purpose Vicki I want you
to stay
there right now until you're ready to
move into the next role and that next
role has got to be somewhere on the path
towards being what you ultimately want
to be so it gets you on the right path
maybe get you in the personal training
or the fitness arena or nutrition area
or something and it gets you there so
that while you're there you're actually
getting valuable experience you're
learning you are you are doing and you
are connecting in the industry you want
to be in
so no don't ask for a raise
don't stay there longer than you have to
you your homework assignment is how do i
best make a move into the industry I
ultimately want to be in because if you
ultimately want to run your own thing
but your own trainer you need to sit
down and get in proximity to people who
are successful trainers what works for
you do you have a side hustle at a local
fitness place I love it and so that so
essentially you have already launched
your own business and you're making some
money so how do you move into the
industry keep that side hustle going or
take the time you're putting the side
hustle and say I can always launch my
own thing again but right now I need to
put all my time and focus in working for
an established trainer or an established
gym or something like that
you can figure that out you're smart
enough you know the industry take me ten
years from now what are you doing
give me the dream I was I would love to
either be a head fitness trainer at this
studio I workout because I love it or
also personal training clients so what
do you need to learn are you saying to
get my personal trainer certification
which I am working on I love it way to
go way to go Vicki you're rocking this
thing and now right you know you know
how much that's costing you know how
long that's gonna take and now I want
you focused on the proximity principle I
want you getting around people that are
doing what you ultimately want to do get
in places where that industry you're
seeing the top performers maybe they're
gathering
at conventions or whatever or get in
other places competitors to the studio
the urine right now and going there and
and and visit you know you know and do
some recon you know what are they doing
that I would do you know you just need
to become if there's a trade magazine or
or fitness magazines the people that run
fitness organizations you know what are
the great Fitness organizations in
America that you go these are really
well run or are influencers people that
are you know dynamic content providers
in the form of their exercise routines
their nutrition who do you follow on
Instagram who do you follow on Twitter
why do you follow become become a
consumer of the people that inspire you
or that are doing it in a way that you
go I admire how they're doing it and you
become completely wrapped with this
proximity principle of people are doing
what you want to do and Vicky you're
gonna get there faster than you ever
dream I promise hey I'm proud of you
you're doing everything you do here's
the deal I know you like the nonprofit
but that's a temporary gig so you're
looking to replace that income and I'd
like to see you do that as soon as
possible and I want you to do it in the
industry that you want to be in you know
folks Vicky I love this you know she
called she was already doing it on the
side side hustle she's already getting a
certification and she's going should I
stay should I go the answer is you
should go if you're in a job that is not
a dream job it's not even where near the
path towards your ultimate work or did
you were created to do stay there only
long enough to get yourself into the
industry doesn't have to be the dream
job step right into that very rarely
does that happen but we want to get in
proximity to the people that are doing
what we want to do and in the places
where what we want to do is happening
this is where opportunity presents
itself time after time after time
