One thing to be mindful of, to have a direct rollover you need a minimum amount(I live in CA). So when I left one of my part-time jobs, they ended up making me out a check because it was too low a sum to do a direct rollover. And I found this out because my paperwork kept getting rejected and then eventually I got a random check in the mail. But no one sat me down and told me that the reason the paperwork kept getting rejected was because I didn’t meet the minimum balance.