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LinkedIn lists the top five signs you should leave your job as follows:

1) You Hate Going to Work
2) You Don't Respect Your Boss or They Don't Respect You
3) You Find Yourself Searching for Jobs Constantly
4) You are Envious When Others Leave
5) You Experience Issues Away from Work

Ha! I've had all of these signs appear throughout my career. Sometimes much worse than others.

My take on these:

1. I have only had a few jobs where I really liked going to work and that was only for periods of time -- not my entire stay at a place. That said, I've only had a few times when I really HATED the job as well.

Here's an interesting post on the benefits of journaling. The part I want to highlight is as follows:

One effective way researchers have found to reinforce learning is through reflective writing. It turns out that regular journaling can be used to train our attention and strengthen neural pathways. As neurologist and teacher Judy Willis explains:

The practice of writing can enhance the brain’s intake, processing, retaining, and retrieving of information… it promotes the brain’s attentive focus…boosts long-term memory, illuminates patterns, gives the brain time for reflection, and when well-guided, is a source of conceptual development and stimulus of the brain’s highest cognition.

Bankrate lists the highest earning dead celebrities as follows:

Here's an interesting article from the NY Times titled How to Pinch Pennies in the Right Places. But to me the piece is more about allocating time properly to tasks that have the biggest payoff.

The article highlights how people often are lured into spending time and effort to get a big percentage off a purchase but may then ignore a better opportunity with a lower perceived "deal" that's actually much more valuable.

Some thoughts that highlight the points: