You know a funny thing happened on my way to a great new job. It was a horrible fit. It was nobody’s fault we just were not a great fit for each other. Like many folks in the mortgage business over the last couple of years we have struggled to find the right employer fit. This one is not it.
My friend and mentor in the home loan business, Ron Quintero was the first one to tell me a few years back that the first time to let a team member go it the very first time that it occurs to you. Otherwise, you will spend months trying to fix a problem that’s more than likely not fixable. And you will kick yourself for wasting all that time and money when were going to part ways anyway. It’s great advice. I learned to follow it the hard way. Don’t do that.
A tangent point is relative to your employer. If they are the wrong fit, you will know quickly. Once you do, you have to leave right away, it never works out in the long run. You can waste a year or two of your career hoping things will get better, management will “get it”, they will improve underwriting, get more urgency in operations or any other reason you will tell yourself that you can make staying work. By the time you leave, you will have wasted far too much time.
Trust me when I tell you that management in this business isn’t changing. Every management team has invested a ton of time and talent in their systems & technology over the last few years. Human nature says that they believe their stuff is the best, no, the only way to do things right in the mortgage business and they believe that they just need people to execute those strategies correctly. They are not changing for you, they want you to conform to them. It’s OK if you do. But if you are truly not a fit, part ways with them just as quickly as you would with a team member that was not a fit.
