Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
While giving notice is polite, it&#x27;s important to note that it is just a courtesy in most places, and you&#x27;re providing that courtesy to something that will happily fire you with no notice if it benefits them. If you&#x27;re somewhere an employer can treat you as having quit the day you provide notice, then you should give minimal notice to maximize stock vesting, benefits, etc.<p>So you don&#x27;t need to provide &quot;more notice (a lot more notice)&quot; as the benefits listed just aren&#x27;t real. I&#x27;ve replaced bullet points with numbers for ease of reference:<p><pre><code>    1. Do only the parts of your job you enjoy the most
    2. Eliminate ~all stress from your job
    3. Get paid the same
    4. Extend your benefits for longer
    5. Take unused vacation time
    6. Vest more stock
    7. Get your bonus
    8. Leave on a positive note
    9. Be thanked and appreciated by everyone
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Of these the only a few are unequivocally true, and most are just false or unnecessary, or even contradictory. The true ones are (3), (4), and (6), and only if you live in a place where an employer is not permitted to terminate your employment upon notice.<p>Your primary goal in providing this courtesy is (8) leaving on a positive note, but if you&#x27;re trying to do that then (1) and (2) are out. You&#x27;re employed, you have to do your job, and if you shirk that then you&#x27;re not leaving on a positive note. At the same time if you&#x27;ve announced you&#x27;re leaving the company has no reason to continue being nice&#x2F;trying to keep you.<p>So we&#x27;re down to (5), (7), and (9). In most countries (5) is some variation of &quot;earned income&quot;, that is you&#x27;ve earned that money and they have to pay you out when your employment class. In many countries sick leave is also earned income and must also be paid out. Hence (5) is unnecessary. If you aren&#x27;t in such a state or country, then you&#x27;re beholden to &quot;can I be terminated immediately upon notice&quot;, in which case you&#x27;re better off going on vacation, and then handing in notice.<p>(7) isn&#x27;t going to happen once you hand in your notice. Either you&#x27;ve already been awarded your bonus, in which case they can&#x27;t claw it back, or there&#x27;s no reason for them to give you one - you&#x27;ve given notice so giving you a bonus isn&#x27;t going to benefit them.<p>Finally for (9), you don&#x27;t need more than 2 weeks notice. You don&#x27;t really even need a week for that. This particular point feels like it&#x27;s part of the &quot;your job is your family&quot; nonsense that is routinely exploited by employers.<p>There is no benefit to extended notice unless you&#x27;re trying to ensure that (8) will leave you the option to return or work for the same group of people elsewhere in future.