The Rotten Opportunities Checklist: How To Tell If Someone Is Wasting Your Time

Any time you spend pursuing bad opportunities is time you can't spend attracting better opportunities. Use our checklist to evaluate your opportunities.

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How Many Red Flags Can You Spot?

I’ve been thinking about this post a lot recently.

It’s painful to read this. There are so many red flags. The communication is poor, the last-minute changes are disturbing, the attempt to change the role is a serious concern, the negative past relationship is problematic, and even communicating by SMS isn’t normal.

It would be a terrible project even if he had gotten the contract. There wasn’t even a courteous relationship or assumption of good intent.

The problem isn’t that the poster didn’t know this was a problematic relationship but that his mentality was, ‘I really need the client, so I’ll overlook all the warning signs’.

I suspect this is an extreme example of a widespread problem: chasing rotten opportunities.

What Is A Rotten Opportunity?

I’ve shared a lot of the warning signs of rotten opportunities befo…