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Decide Whether to Stay in a Role or Move On
The role is not right. Or the timing is not right. Or the problem is not with the role at all and will arrive at the next one six months in. This structures the stay-or-go decision: whether the leaving reason is role-specific or will follow you, what growth looks like from here in eighteen months, what the grass is realistically like on the other side, and whether now is the right time regardless.
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You are considering whether to stay in {CURRENT_ROLE} or move on. You have been in the role for {TENURE}. The primary reason you are considering leaving is {LEAVING_REASON}. The primary reason you are considering staying is {STAYING_REASON}.
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<task>
Structure the decision:
1. The diagnosis: is the leaving reason about this specific role or would it follow you to the next one
2. The ceiling test: what does professional progress look like from where you are now in this role over the next eighteen months
3. The grass test: for the specific thing drawing you toward leaving, what is the realistic version of that elsewhere versus the imagined version
4. The timing question: is now the right time regardless of the decision direction
5. A recommended direction with the single condition that would change it
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<output_format>
- Five numbered items
- Length: under 350 words
- Tone: honest career coaching; not cheerleading for movement or loyalty
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.