A career is important. It is how you get the money to do the things that are important to you.

With that in mind, the company you work for must be stable enough to deliver that income.

Look around, listen, think. Are the customers happy? Is the work done well? Are projects profitable?

If you answered ‘no’ to any one of these questions - look more, think more. If the customers aren’t happy, they will leave, and it will be more difficult to attract new customers. If the work isn’t done well, the customers won’t be happy and it will be harder to get new customers. If projects aren’t profitable, the company simply cannot survive. It will be closed or sold.

Not every customer will be happy, not every project will be done well, and there are often projects that go overbudget - however - if the majority of the time, things go well, everything will be okay.