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Should you change careers. Or is the friction telling you something different?
"Should I leave?" is usually the wrong first question. The real question is: where am I, exactly? This is a short, honest test that maps your position and shows you what staying actually costs - the hidden costs most people don't think about until they're paying them.
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How it's scored: your answers to four questions place you on an alignment-vs-friction grid — a self-report snapshot to prompt reflection, not a clinical or diagnostic instrument.
Four honest questions
How often does your role ask you to suppress your personal ethics for corporate goals?
Small daily compromises count. So does the bigger stuff you've stopped naming.
What is your energy ROI from this work?
Compare the emotional energy you spend with the fulfillment you actually receive. Money doesn't count here. Only energy.
How much real control do you have over how you execute?
Not titles or perks. The daily creative leverage to decide what gets built, how, and when.
If you stayed in this role for three more years, where would it realistically take you?
Not best-case, not worst-case. Honest projection from current trajectory.
Your position
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The next step
Unlock the Decisional Framework for your quadrant.
The grid placement is the diagnosis. The framework below shows you both sides: what it actually costs to stay vs. what you'd need to move. Built for the quadrant you landed in.
Your Decisional Framework is locked
Unlock above to see the second-order consequences matrix for your quadrant.Your quadrant: —
The Second-Order Consequences Matrix
Most people only count obvious costs (income, comfort, status). The real costs are hidden. They compound silently and arrive late. Read both columns honestly.
If you stay 3 more years. Hidden emotional costs.
If you transition. What you'd need.
The hardest part isn't seeing the framework. It's choosing inside it.
1:1 coaching is where these decisions get made well. A structured space. A thinking partner. Accountability between sessions. The work to turn a quadrant insight into a real, sequenced move.
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