🧩 MME #011: How do you know your boss wants you to Quit

Your options if your boss does this to you

You learned how to grow your career faster and go from mid-level to senior+ engineer in the last post. But, did you know most of your career growth depends on your manager. Here’s how to evaluate your manager and what to do if you think your boss wants you to quit.

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1. Interview your manager as much as they interview you

Your manager can literally make or break your career. Getting 3 crucial promotions in less than 5 years was only possibly because of my manager's support and his confidence in me.

So vet your manager on these points:

• How approachable are they

• How many have they successfully promoted

• Do they take feedback constructively

• How do they resolve conflicts

2. Definite red flags of an employer/manager

Some more red flags:

(These were the exact red flags my first manager had. It led me to lose interest in my job. And finally I was laid off.)

• Ignoring employee feedback

• Encouraging toxic work culture

• Forcing employees to work extra hours

• Not appreciating them enough

• Demonstrating favoritism

• Downplay mental health concerns

• Avoiding to resolve conflicts

3. “S” in job stands for Safety

(…there is none)

And that’s why relying solely on one source of income can leave your and your family financially vulnerable.

Here’s why you should start diversifying your income and skills

• Income stability

• Reduce risk of income loss in economic crisis

• Achieve financial freedom earlier

4. Here’s an action plan for you

It’s easy to say “Quit job and start a business” - but HOW?

Check out an complete plan with a specific example (in the below “put it in action…” section)

Put it in action...

Here’s how you can start a business that solves a specific problem. With an example.

Step 1: Find where the money is flowing

• Let’s take an example of investors/stock traders/option traders.

• Specifically short term traders.

• We know short term traders have money to experiment.

Step 2: Find your interests

• For this example let’s assume you are interested in finance too

• Additionally, being an engineer you know how to build apps

Step 3: Identify a specific problem

• Newbie investors often confused and lost

• They have the money but they don’t know:

  • Where to invest

  • When to enter a trade or when to stop loss

Step 4: Create a solution for it

• Being a software developer you can create a SaaS web app the offers a solution to that specific problems

• Your SaaS can deliver real time alerts to day traders based on specific trading indicators.

• And building such a SaaS is not hard at all. In fact there are tools like Divjoy that literally 10x’s your speed with their codebase generator.

Step 5: Invest money to make more money

• Time if your most valuable asset. So stop doing everything yourself.

• Here’s what you can do:

  • Hire someone to build the app for you - you can still guide them through it

  • Use tool like Divjoy to build SaaS products faster through drag and drop UX

  • Hire an finance-influencer to market your product

Cheers,

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p.s. Members of Divjoy also get access to their private Discord community. Drop by to meet other builders, ask questions, and learn from the best.

…psst! you can also validate your SaaS business ideas. Click here to check out.