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For 3 months now I’ve been writing the Workplace column of Cosmopolitan Philippines. Part of the column is a “tips” section where I dish out “concrete” things that Pinay careerwomen can do to improve their careers.

(Don’t ask me how exactly I landed this writing assignment - a large part of it was being in the right place at the right time - i.e., I was standing in front of the editor-in-chief and managing editor at approximately the precise moment when they thought, “hmmm…we need a new columnist for the workplace section…”. Something like that.

Anyway, for the January 2002 issue, I told my editor that I was going to write about “Top Ten Signs That You Need A New Job”. The premise was that the new year was as good a time as any to totally ditch a job you hate and start afresh in a new one.

We basically polished off the idea in the bathroom while we were both waiting for one of the stalls to be available. In under an hour, the list had become “Top Twenty Signs That You Need A New Job”, with the help of my officemates and Markie who gamely helped put it together.

I’m sharing 5 of the signs here.

FIVE OF THE TOP TWENTY SIGNS THAT YOU NEED A NEW JOB IN THE NEW YEAR:

1. You’re physically and emotionally exhausted before lunchtime.
2. You set phantom meetings outside the office and you attend them religiously.
3. You bring a cot to put under your desk in the office and take a nap whenever no one’s looking.
4. You go to google.com and type in your name to see how many web pages have mentioned you. And you don’t even work for an internet company.
5. Your boss has moved the conference room to your desk or cubicle.

(Four of the five ’signs’ above came from Markie, Janjan, and JB. Thanks, guys!)

For the rest of the list, you gotta get the January 2002 issue of Cosmo. Hehe. That is, if this ever gets to see print, which I highly doubt.

What about you? C’mon, share your list!

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