If you find this blog, please know that you are not alone in your misery on your job.
I will at least once a quarter post the results from the survey. Below are others worldwide that want to quit their jobs even if they don’t have another one lined-up. It is a serious problem. Please know that you are not crazy and are not alone. Thanks to all of those who have purchased my book. I hope that it has helped during this difficult time.
| Comment | Date |
| The stress | Thursday, Oct 19th 9:47AM |
| My career is going nowhere for me | Wednesday, Oct 18th 1:24PM |
| I hate where I’m at and feel like I’ve been at this job too long. I dread going to work everyday and have a hard time getting up in the morning. | Wednesday, Oct 18th 10:35AM |
| Stress, work load, overtime, toxic environment, not appreciated | Saturday, Oct 14th 10:28PM |
| The stress the workload the hours the pay | Friday, Oct 13th 3:31PM |
| Career growth | Friday, Oct 13th 11:44AM |
| Freedom | Thursday, Oct 12th 2:04PM |
| There is no growth in the organization,Boss is not supportive and environment tis extremely political.They have reduce my role and expecting me to leave. | Thursday, Oct 12th 5:05AM |
| There is no trust between me and my boss.I was once in competition with my current boss and he was my peer.But due to his political nature he reached to that position and remove my old boss from his position hence reduce my chances of promotions. | |
| I’m miserable and unhappy, the moment I walk in the door. I’ve had enough and know it’s time to do something else. | Wednesday, Oct 11th 10:22PM |
| Fed up of my current job, not enjoying it anymore, want something new, new challenge. | Tuesday, Oct 10th 7:39PM |
| I am extremely bored and unchallenged. | Sunday, Oct 8th 1:32PM |
| I hate doing the job I have. | Thursday, Oct 5th 5:09AM |
| I don’t feel needed or respected. | |
| I feel disrespected. | |
| I’m bitter at my boss for passing me up on a permanent position. | |
| It makes me feel physically ill | Wednesday, Oct 4th 1:50PM |
| On edge, tearfull and stressed | |
| I cannot think straight and it has erroded my confidence | |
| Drained | Sunday, Oct 1st 8:10AM |
| Feel like not part of team, not being challenged, bored, not valued | Thursday, Sep 28th 6:17PM |
| I hate it | Saturday, Sep 23rd 7:17PM |
| The stress from my job is greatly impactinh my health, my mental well being and my relationship with my husband. I have panic attacks on my way to work accompanied by a general ill feeling in my stomach. | Wednesday, Sep 20th 6:56PM |
| I’m happy with my life except for one minor detail … I HATE going to work Monday to Friday. I feel like my boss owns me and my life is not my own. My job is also holding me back because I’m not learning anything new or useful. I worry about my future. It’s draining my life force and making me sick. I literally need to quit so I can recover and reclaim myself. Looking for another job in this mental state is not what I want to do. I need time between jobs because I never get a decent vacation. I want to be FREE!!! | Tuesday, Sep 19th 7:27PM |
| I want to renovate my house. I want to do a Barista course. I want to plan for my future. I want to spend more time with family. If I get another job, I want it to be one that I really love. I don’t want to get up at 4am to go to work anymore. I don’t want to work on the week-ends. I don’t want to work until 10pm at night anymore. I want to spend time in my garden. While I love customers, I don’t want o have to deal with grumpy badly behaved people anymore. | Monday, Sep 18th 8:01PM |
| I’m just so tired and burned out from it. Don’t fit in with the culture and not nerdy enough | Sunday, Sep 17th 7:55PM |
| my job has become tedious and I hate my loine of work. I’ve been I’ll from work stress and I’m extremely unhappy with management. | Tuesday, Sep 12th 12:27PM |
| This job is depressing | Monday, Sep 11th 1:10PM |
| its very repetitive | |
| its ruining my mood | |
| The pay is terrible. I cannot make any money here. Its sales, and the one week (out of the 50-60 weeks I have been here) I made it past the average pay. It was only 200 more than what i usually make | |
| I cannot focus | |
| My thoughts arent clear | |
| Moving towns for a fresh start | Saturday, Sep 9th 4:24AM |
| Need a more stable job, more pay, serve hard to serve people and I just can’t do it anymore. Safety is a concern. | Tuesday, Sep 5th 11:27AM |
| I am miserable, unhappy, cry all the time and think about being at home so can concentrate on my job. I just hate it. | Tuesday, Sep 5th 7:57AM |
| Because I cannot take this any more. I’m 22 years old and I’m suffering with anxiety, depression and a disease in my pancreas due to stress. | Wednesday, Aug 30th 6:38AM |
| Because I can’t take another second there, and I’m moving away to a new state soon | Tuesday, Aug 29th 10:47AM |
| The job I have now takes up all my my mental time and almost all of my free time. I took it thinking it would make me happy and validate my worth. It hasn’t. I hate it and it’s only been 2.5 months. I want to move across the country and I can’t job search well from the opposite coast. So I have to buck up, relocate, and search as a local resident. | Thursday, Aug 24th 12:09PM |
| It’s driving me crazy | Tuesday, Aug 22nd 11:16PM |
| My job makes me physically ill. I can’t sleep or relax on my days off. | Tuesday, Aug 22nd 8:02PM |
| Take on an extreme amount of stress and pressure without appreciation or compensation and was not part of the job description when I was hired | Saturday, Aug 19th 1:31PM |
| I have a Mental illness that causes me to not be able to tolerate the intricate stipulations and policies of this company | Friday, Aug 18th 4:51PM |
| I want to live in Africa and work on community projects | Thursday, Aug 17th 9:47PM |
| Stagnant growth. Mistreated. Terrible corporate culture. Not learning. | Wednesday, Aug 16th 9:58AM |
| Tired of stressful responsibility. Tired of long hours worked and travel time. Tired of difficult employees. | Sunday, Aug 13th 10:31PM |
| My stress levels feels through the roof, I don’t like the direction this company is going in, I feel an almost unbearable anxiety at the thought of dealing with our customers, I want to work in an industry where my schedule is more set and stable, I have been | Sunday, Aug 13th 8:30PM |
| I am not interested in computer industry. | Sunday, Aug 13th 7:20AM |
| The work is affecting my mental health | Saturday, Aug 12th 4:50PM |
| My CEO is abusive. I do t think he is going to let me do what I need to do. I am worried about recruiting good people into a dysfunctional company. | Saturday, Aug 12th 6:14AM |
| Because I feel like I’m overqualified and I can do much better if given a chance. | Thursday, Aug 10th 5:04AM |
| I didn’t learn a thing about the core operation of the job. I am like an unskilled working in my office. | |
| The reason I want to quit my job before I find another one is that I need a safer job because this one is really stressful for me when we get busy and overwhelming. | Tuesday, Aug 8th 8:22PM |
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| I want to do something I enjoy | Thursday, Aug 3rd 2:39PM |
| Can’t sleep or eat due to anxiety. Unsafe work environment | Thursday, Aug 3rd 4:32AM |
| Stress not being able to perform the job. Writing on he wall I will be getting fired. | Tuesday, Aug 1st 7:11PM |
| Because it’s time and I have been planning for 18 months and I am longer happy and very stressed | Tuesday, Aug 1st 12:29PM |
| No passion on current job. | Tuesday, Aug 1st 11:16AM |
| I want to work by myself. | |
| I want to travel more than I can for the past 5 years. | |
| I dont like being told what to do and limit my potential. | |
| I love to create new things. | |
| I dont have any passion in this industry. | |
| Im just working for the sake of paying the bills and expenses. | |
| Freedom | Monday, Jul 31st 11:40PM |
| I need a break from everything | Monday, Jul 31st 2:28PM |
| Miserable | Monday, Jul 31st 5:34AM |
| Tired of being under paid, and put down by leaders. Don’t like environment etc | Saturday, Jul 29th 6:53PM |
| Stress | Thursday, Jul 27th 11:48PM |
| I need to figure out my life (next steps) but I’m unable to really focus on that because I am exhausted from job. | Thursday, Jul 27th 2:13AM |
| I’m wasting my energy here when I could be doing something productive at home. | Wednesday, Jul 26th 7:54AM |
| I am a useless body behind a computer screen. | |
| I don’t feel myself really smile once while at work. | |
| I am too tired and stressout with work. Too afraid to go work everyday | Wednesday, Jul 26th 5:28AM |
| Stress, always working late and on weekends | Monday, Jul 24th 8:28PM |
| Third shift | Saturday, Jul 22nd 10:58PM |
| I feel like I need to sacrifice a good thing for a better thing | Tuesday, Jul 18th 12:32PM |
| My manager pays me a terrible wage | Monday, Jul 17th 4:16PM |
| I feel very upset in my current job. Very very upset. | Monday, Jul 17th 7:17AM |
| Great | Sunday, Jul 16th 11:16PM |
| Mentally, emotionally and physically I can no longer do my current job. I have wanted to start my own business for a long time and have done a lot of research and decided on the business I will start. I have the finances to start my own business and to pay my bills, without changing anything, for 5 months so I feel comfortable quitting my current job. If I scale back, I can stretch that even longer. And knowing that, I no longer feel stuck; I feel relieved and excited. | Saturday, Jul 15th 8:21AM |
| Because I hate the way it makes me feel about myself | Thursday, Jul 13th 1:23PM |
| I just want to leave | Thursday, Jul 13th 5:20AM |
| I want to have a change in environment. I came back for dad. I am feeling the unfairness and unhappiness whenever I am tasked with certain task. | Monday, Jul 10th 7:08AM |
| Stress, no work life balance | Sunday, Jul 9th 9:43PM |
| i am thinking to quit my job without another one because i felt tired when iwas working there 2 weeks ago | Saturday, Jul 8th 4:35AM |
| i feel everything has chamged i mean in a very bad way | |
| i dont like seeing other people not work hard and just act like they are superior | |
| i hate to meet someone and hear something that are very annoyed me | |
| It’s a dead-end job, I’m not making enough money and I can’t achieve even my most basic objectives for the future; also, there’s the perspective of having to travel for work, which I don’t intend to do. | Friday, Jul 7th 3:34AM |
| I’ve been here long enough to realize that I’m just not cut out for this. I’m better off elsewhere – someplace where I can actually feel passionate about my job, somewhere I can put my skills to good use. I am so tired for waking up every single day feeling like crap. | Wednesday, Jul 5th 6:58PM |
| Stress is wrecking my health to the point where I have no good days anymore | Wednesday, Jul 5th 2:16PM |
| Cant take this job no more | Wednesday, Jul 5th 8:31AM |
| Too much pressure | |
| want to be free | |
| do not want to say hello boos any more | |
| want to travel the world | |
| Don’t get the same treatments as others | Tuesday, Jul 4th 3:51PM |
| Picked on | |
| Unhappy | |
| bored | Monday, Jul 3rd 10:02PM |
| just waiting for start-up | |
| no incentive to do anything | |
| no more friends | |
| stagnant for 4 years | |
| everyone else is higher ranked | |
| My job is overwhelming me to the point of depression. I am underpaid, undervalued, and overworked. I have many responsibilities, at times covering the responsibilities of three employees. I feel dread when I wake up in the morning at the thought of going in. | Monday, Jul 3rd 1:18PM |
| 1. I’m not enjoying the work | Friday, Jun 30th 11:55PM |
| 2. I feel blocked when trying to innovate | |
| 3. Some co-workers are impossible to reason with | |
| 4. My boss chooses the advice of the coworker over mine | |
| Want a job with a different industry, different duties, and room for growth. Looking for a better work environment, colleagues to befriend, and opportunities to further my career. Burnt out of this job. | Thursday, Jun 29th 9:09AM |
| because i am depressed at it. there is no room for advancement, the people i work with are backstabbers and i am sick of it. | Thursday, Jun 29th 8:47AM |
| I’m completely miserable at my job. I’m stressed out. My anxiety level has accelerated. I’m doing way more than I can handle. At times I have chest pain due to the stress. My sleep is also affected. | Wednesday, Jun 28th 6:09AM |
| Cannot carry on here anymore | Tuesday, Jun 27th 5:59AM |
| Because the job im in right now isnt for me. I fell in the job. I suck at IT. | Monday, Jun 26th 7:59AM |
| 1. My health is suffering. In terms of my physical health, I have been putting off visiting a doctor for nearly a year. There were also days in the past few months that I was contemplating suicide. I smoke too much at work (Don’t feel the need to, at home). | Sunday, Jun 25th 1:58AM |
| 2. I have no work-life balance. Even after trying multiple times to balance my work-life, I keep falling back to 12-hour workdays (This is an improved no.!). No extra curricular activities, no friends left, have met my boyfriend only 3 to 4 times this entire year (And he lives in the same city as me). | |
| 3. My elder sister is suffering from severe anxiety and depression, she talks about committing suicide everyday. My parents are aging and find it difficult to look after her, once she moved back in with us. I feel like I am unable to contribute at home, as I am so bogged down at work. | |
| 4. I never had a great boss and was seriously thinking of quitting my job for more than 6 months. My boss quit and so I decided to stay back to assess the situation after his notice. My new boss doesn’t seem to like me too much, he does not share information too easily as well. He has also recruited somebody whose position would be between us two – which means that I would report into two people instead of one. I feel that this is quite unfair since I have had a large contribution in running the department up till now. I feel that it would be futile to work hard now and not worth the effort to impress my new boss. Also, nearly all of my old team had already moved on. | |
| 5. I feel too burnt out to look for another job while at this job. Whenever I have got offers from other companies, I am turning them down as I feel I am too tired to go for an interview and definitely too tired to prove myself at a new job. | |
| My job stress has created depression in my life to the point I am taking medication for it. | Thursday, Jun 22nd 12:04AM |
| Too much stress and not working for me. | Wednesday, Jun 21st 2:33PM |
| TO TAKE CARE OF ELDERLY MOM | Tuesday, Jun 20th 2:50PM |
| I no longer have the desire to work where I do. I have stagnated mentally. I am no longer using my brain and have been forgetting things I learned in school. I’m tired of the daily drudgery and sameness. | Monday, Jun 19th 1:25PM |
| Stressful situation, very unhappy, affecting health and personal life | Sunday, Jun 18th 10:52PM |
| treated poorly, no room for improvement, cant speak to manager, get judged everyday, get talked about, there is no hope left here | Sunday, Jun 18th 7:38PM |
| I’m in a position that is just not right for me, with a company that I have outgrown, and is beneath my skills and education, for a company of managers that I am unable to influence positively. I am getting physically ill from this, and it costs me money to get there every day. | Friday, Jun 16th 1:16PM |
| I have classic signs of burnout and compassion fatigue despite being in the field for a brief period (less than 1 year). I also feel I have lost the passion that once motivated me to enter the field of counseling. My other passions keep calling to me, such as writing, traveling, and adventuring outdoors. | Tuesday, Jun 13th 1:44PM |
| SO NOT HAPPY! I READ THE STEPS TO TAKE TO QUIT YOUR JOB POST AND IT FIT ME TO A T! | Monday, Jun 12th 3:36PM |
| Quitting my job because my 75 minute-90 minute commute each way along with a high energy, stressful job has taken a toll on me and my personal life. Work/life balance is unhealthy. | Monday, Jun 12th 10:14AM |
| To do wht I always dreamed of. | Monday, Jun 12th 10:35AM |
| I want a change | Sunday, Jun 11th 11:30PM |
| Stress | Sunday, Jun 11th 8:13PM |
| Don’t feel valued or trap | Saturday, Jun 10th 10:53PM |
| This job is a dead end for me. I am not gaining new skills. Expectations are unrealistic and continuously changing. | Saturday, Jun 10th 10:20PM |
| It is not what want to do. It is stressful and I hate the working environment and thr senior management | Wednesday, Jun 7th 5:46AM |
| l | Tuesday, Jun 6th 9:14AM |
| I feel stressed and uncomfortable at my job. | Monday, Jun 5th 1:26PM |
| I’m not happy with my direction, lack passion for my company, find my job boring | Monday, Jun 5th 5:19AM |