Should I Quit My Job Quiz — Are You Ready to Leave?
About 5 minutes · 20 questions
Question 1 of 20
Picking up where you left off.
When you picture the thing you want to get away from, what is it?
See all five ranges
- 0–19 pts Restless, Not Leaving
- What you have is an itch, and resigning is an expensive way to scratch it.
- Your answers do not describe a job you need to get out of. The friction is real enough to have brought you to a quiz about quitting, but it is local — a project, a hard stretch, someone who will move on before you do — and none of the work that leaving actually requires has been started. That is not a criticism. The wanting-out feeling arrives on schedule in most jobs, somewhere between the point where the work stops being new and the point where it starts being yours. Resigning from this position tends to reproduce the same conditions somewhere less familiar, and charges you a first year all over again for the privilege.
- 20–39 pts Fixable From Where You Stand
- The problem is real. The cheapest place to solve it is still inside this building.
- Something is genuinely wrong, and your answers point at it consistently instead of in a different direction each week. What the score also says is that the problem has an address: a manager, a workload, a role that has drifted a long way from the one you were hired into. Those are negotiable far more often than people believe. Meanwhile the machinery of leaving is not built — the résumé is old, you have not checked what your work pays elsewhere, and you could not yet say what you want instead. A resignation from this position usually gets accepted by whichever employer asks first, which is a poor way to choose the next several years of your life.
- 40–59 pts The Split Middle
- Halfway here means two opposite things. Work out which half is yours before you move.
- A middling score is not a middling situation. It is one of two very different ones, and a single number cannot tell them apart. In the first, the reasons are strong and the preparation is missing: you know exactly why you want out, and you could not describe the job you want or survive two months without a salary. In the second, the preparation is strong and the reasons are thin: the résumé is current, you know your market rate, and if you are honest the job is fine and you are shopping out of curiosity. Both land near fifty. They call for opposite next moves — and doing the other one is how people leave jobs they would have kept, or stay in jobs that are quietly finishing them off.
- 60–79 pts The Window Is Open
- Your reasons are structural and your preparation is real. Move deliberately, not suddenly.
- Both halves are in place. What you want to leave is not a bad quarter but the shape of the thing — the direction, the ceiling, the way decisions get made — and you have done enough groundwork that a serious search would not be starting from zero. This is the strongest position anyone ever negotiates from, because you can still walk away from a bad offer without anything breaking. It is also the position most often wasted: people arrive here, feel the relief of having decided, and then take the first thing that clears the bar. The window is open. Windows close too, usually because somebody got tired of waiting and jumped through the nearest one.
- 80–100 pts Cleared to Go
- The deciding is finished. What is left is the exit, and exits are easy to do badly.
- There is nothing ambiguous in your answers. The reasons are structural and long-standing, the fixes have been asked for and refused or never existed at all, and the practical side is genuinely done — you know the market, your materials are current, you have taken real steps, and you know how the leaving would work. At this score the open question is no longer whether to go. It is the last hundred meters. People who are this ready tend to hurry, and hurrying is how a good exit becomes an awkward reference, a forfeited entitlement, or a new job chosen mainly on the grounds that it was not the old one.
About the Should I Quit My Job Quiz
Most people decide to leave a job twice. The first time is a feeling — it usually arrives on a Sunday evening and it is gone by Tuesday. The second time is a decision, and it survives a good week at work. The distance between those two is where this quiz sits.
What it measures is timing, not fit. It will not tell you which career suits you; that is a different question with a different test. It asks twenty questions in two halves. Ten look at how hard you are being pushed: whether the problem is one fixable thing or the shape of the job, how long it has lasted, whether anyone who could change it has been asked, which way the last year has moved. Ten look at the machinery of actually going: your résumé, what your work pays elsewhere, how many months of fixed costs you could cover, who would take a reference call, whether you can name the job you want next.
The two halves are added into a single index from 0 to 100, and that index lands in one of five ranges. Every range comes with an ordered list of what to do next, because a number on its own has never got anyone out of a job — or persuaded them to stay in one that was worth keeping.
How it works
- Answer for the last few months rather than for today. One unusually bad week and one unusually good one will both bend the score.
- Twenty questions, four options, no timer. Pick the answer closest to true rather than the one you would prefer to be true — nothing is sent anywhere, and nobody else sees it.
- Half the questions ask why you want to leave and half ask whether you could. They alternate all the way through — reason, readiness, reason, readiness — so neither kind ever arrives as a block you can answer on autopilot.
- Your result is an index from 0 to 100 with a marker on the scale, and it opens one of five ranges: restless, fixable here, the split middle, the window, and cleared to go.
- Read the ordered list at the bottom of your range first. That part is written to be acted on this month; everything above it is the context for why.
This is a self-check about work timing, written from scratch. It is not a psychological or medical assessment and not a burnout measure of any kind, and it cannot see your contract, your household or your country's employment rules — so nothing here is legal or financial advice. Read your own notice terms before acting on anything about timing, and take money questions to someone qualified to look at the whole picture. Your answers stay in your browser and are not sent anywhere. If work has begun to affect your health or your sleep, that belongs with a doctor rather than a quiz.
Frequently asked questions
Will this tell me whether to quit?
No — and be wary of any quiz that says it will. This one tells you where you stand on the two things a quit-or-stay decision needs: how strong your reasons for leaving are, and how ready you are to act on them. Then it tells you what usually moves next from that position. The decision itself involves your contract, your household and a dozen things a page of questions cannot see.
How is this different from a career aptitude test?
An aptitude test asks which kind of work suits you. This quiz asks whether now is the moment to leave the job you already have, which is a question about timing and preparation — one that can have a different answer every year in the same post. Plenty of people are in exactly the right career and the wrong job.
Should I look for something while I am still employed?
As a general pattern, job-hunting from inside a job puts you on the choosing side more often than searching after you have already quit, because you can turn down an offer without anything breaking. How much room you have for interviews and a handover is specific to your employer, though, and your notice terms are in your contract rather than in a quiz. Read those before you act on anything about timing.
I scored high but I cannot afford to go. What now?
Then the quiz is telling you your reasons for leaving have run ahead of your runway, which is common and is not a failure. The useful response is to treat the money side as the project for the next few months rather than as a verdict: keep the search alive, prefer moving to a job over moving to a gap, and read the runway question as a planning input. Anything about your own finances belongs with somebody qualified who can see them.
Is this a burnout or mental health check?
No. Nothing in this quit-or-stay quiz is a clinical instrument and no part of the score is a health measure — the questions were written from scratch as a career-timing self-check. If the job has started to affect your sleep, your health, or your ability to enjoy anything outside work, that is a conversation with a doctor, and it is a separate one from this.
Why did I get a different result from a colleague with the same complaints?
Because half of this quiz — every second question — measures readiness to leave, and readiness is where people differ most. Two colleagues can dislike the same office equally and still be twelve months apart in their ability to quit it. That gap is the entire reason this is not just a dissatisfaction meter.
Is the Should I Quit My Job Quiz free, and does it ask where I work?
Free, with no account and no email, and it never asks for your employer, your job title or your industry. The twenty questions are about the shape of the dissatisfaction, not about who is causing it — which is the only way a page like this can be answered honestly by somebody still holding the job.
How long does the Should I Quit My Job Quiz take?
Five minutes or so for the twenty. Take it on a Wednesday rather than a Sunday evening if you can, since Sunday answers describe the dread and Wednesday answers describe the job.