Comments on: Why Does Quitting Your Job Bother Other People

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By: Edith

Edith — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:50:22 +0000

I am so relieved to learn that I am not the only one who quit. The reason why I left was because after 4 years of daily verbal abuse, I couldn’t take it anymore. I tried the nice approach, I tried closing the office door, I tried diplomacy, and every written advice given by so called career specialists, but none of them worked. My family convinced me to leave for the sake of my sanity and health. No job is worth dying over. As a matter of fact, I know of many people who stayed at a job, miserable for the sake of providing latest expensive items to keep up with the times, and they each died before retirement! Not to mention the 3 co-workers who died from the employment I just left (2 from cancer and 1 from overdosing on alcohol). They were quickly forgotten as soon as their replacements came. Employers don’t give a damn about you but themselves and their profit. They could care less about how the environment affects you and life is too short to die over a jackA**.
If people work for a company that makes them happy, then that’s wonderful and great, and worth staying. BUT, if a person works for a company that brings them down all the them, and expects the abused employee to treat their abuse as a challenge, then there is something wrong with that picture.

By: Robert Morgen

Robert Morgen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:19:15 +0000

I think one reason that it bothers other people is because some of them would like to do the same thing!

When I quit my job I had several coworkers and friends who were fearful for me, some who were envious and some who thought I was an idiot.

ALL of them were responding, in some sense, to that part of themselves that would like to do the same thing.

When we quit our jobs it made them face the reality of their own situations, hence the different reactions.

Robert Morgen
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By: SR

SR — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:29:53 +0000

Thank you, DensityDuck- saying a little more forthrightly what I was getting to…

Stuff the arrogance- the same as you would like respect for choosing the path of self-employment, give respect for the people who choose to stay regularly employed. You’re doing something risky, and should not look down on people for choosing not to take those same risks. They are typically staying there for the sake of their families.

By: TVD

TVD — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:14:41 +0000

3 reasons it bothers people that you quit your job:

1. You point out the problems at work and are willing to do something about it

2. You are brave enough to do what they won’t do.

3. You now make them realize that they can do something about it, but that are too scared to

Plus, as a regular reader of this blog, I am surprised how this one has hit such a cord with people.

By: The Man

The Man — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:14:53 +0000

It seems I may be the anomaly here; I quit my job to be a stay at home dad. I suppose you could say its a home-based business, but I don’t get paid in money.

I got the same questions, the same semi-berating tone from friends who eventually confided that they wished their wives had employment that would allow them to stay at home too.

Our family decided that we wouldn’t live in the Playstation World, that is, the world that is always trying to sell you something which will be obsolete in two or three years. My kids sometimes pester me as to why we can’t have a Playstation 3, and I tell them “Because there used to be a Playstation 2 and in the near future there will be a Playstation 4″.

We don’t live a life of luxury and there won’t be any new cars in the garage any time soon, then again, my kids will never be their young ages again either.