When Into a new job....Remember

 Into a new job?

The first 6 months in a new job are like stepping into a moving train 🚆

You’re expected to find your seat… while it’s already in motion.

I’ll be honest.

In the first 6 months of almost every new job… I felt like quitting.

Almost every time.

Nothing was fundamentally wrong.
But something didn’t feel right.

And that feeling quietly says:
👉 “Maybe this isn’t for you.”

Over time, I realised:

👉 It wasn’t the job
👉 It was the transition phase

Every new job disrupts you in three ways:

🔹 → Confidence drops
🔹 → Control reduces
🔹 → Comparison begins

And your mind plays a trick…
It edits your past and compares it with your present.

So I made one rule:

“For the first 6 months… no decisions.”

👉 Just understand, don’t evaluate.

Here’s what I started doing:

🔹 Month 1–2: Observe, don’t prove
→ Who influences decisions?
→ What really matters?
→ How does work actually move?

🔹 Month 3–4: Create small wins
→ Don’t try to change everything
→ Just build visible contributions

🔹 Month 5–6: Decide with clarity
→ Now you have context
→ Now you have perspective

Somewhere in between, I stopped waiting for clarity… and created it.

🔹 → Defined my role for myself
🔹 → Focused on outcomes, not activities
🔹 → Aligned it with my manager

And instead of judging my boss… I decoded:

🔹 → Speed or perfection?
🔹 → Updates or independence?
🔹 → Data or relationships?

That reduced most of the friction.

Because here’s what I’ve learnt:

🔹 → People don’t leave wrong jobs
🔹 → They leave too early

🔹 → They mistake discomfort for misfit
🔹 → And impatience for intuition

If you’re in that phase right now…

Pause.

👉 You’re not stuck
👉 You’re just early in the story

Stay a little longer.
Understand a little deeper.
Then decide with clarity.