Waiting While Miserable In A Job Is Hard; But Don't Quit Until You Have a Plan

I am miserable in my current job and I do not enjoy it.

I want to leave the job so I can think and decide on something I would like to do.

~Worker Living in BAHRAIN

If you don’t know what you would like to do then you need to focus all of your efforts on that. The answer may not come like a bolt of lightning out of thin air. No one is going to give you the final answers about what you like and what you should do. You have to make this decision for yourself.

Yes, you might be miserable in your current job, but try to push through it while you are working on the “Just Quit” Steps.

Waiting is hard. Waiting might seem like torture, but waiting might spare you the pain of making a big mistake. Do the work. Do Step 4. Be productive while you wait.

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P.S.

You don’t  have to have another j-o-b lined up…you just need a plan…that’s two separate things…it COULD be another j-o-b-; but it might be to start a business, travel, become a soloprenuer, freelance, ect….you just need a game plan for the next chapter of your life…or how to get to the next port.

P.P.S. About Locations:

Along this journey of blogging and writing the book (and now blogging the book): I’ve become more and more fascinated with the places that the survey has reached.   I’ll start adding a little information from my research about the locations for some of the entries…it’s an interesting world…

Today’s workplace entry is from Bahrain:

• Official Language – Arabic
• Currency: Bahraini Dinars
• It’s the smallest Arab Nation and off the Persian Gulf
• 92% desert but it’s known for its water
• Bahrain means – “Two Seas”  – the sweet water and the salty sea
• Thought to be the setting of the Garden of Eden where Eve ate the fruit
• Thought to have the worlds best pearls

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Work on Finding The Right Industry and Profession So You Can Do Great Work

I am just not interested in the corporate planning industry.

~Worker Living in SINGAPORE

Today, I will research industries and professions that I am interested in.

I will work on Step 4 – Finding My Purpose

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Yes, "Just Quit" Is A Risk...BUT...It Can Lead To The Good Life

I studied very hard thinking that I would live a good life after I graduated, but I think I’m the most unhappy person. I hate this place. I don’t care about my job anymore.

I feel like this is punishment for something terrible that I did.

I am a lot happier when I’m at home, with my family, friends, and my boyfriend. I’m happy even when I’m in class and doing everything else outside of my job. My job is tiring and makes me feel sick and the worst thing is the night shift. I feel like crying like a baby when I have to come to work at night. I want to start a business outside of my career. I want to do something that will make me feel good. I want to study further. I am not proud to tell people about my job because I feel that it is stupid.  I complain to everyone and they seem to think that I don’t know what I want.

I want to relax and have fun for a while, take a holiday.

I’m just tired, so tired that I can’t even take care of myself anymore. I can’t dress up to look good anymore. I don’t even do my hair anymore. My body is always tired and I’m gaining weight because of the stress making me eat and sleep.

~ Worker Living in JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA

Today, we will KNOW that things will change.

One day we will be able to live the good life that we have imagined.

When we do we will reach back.We will remember what we went through. We will remember this time of needing encouragement to make it through the day and we will encourage others with our story.

We will make it.

We WILL make it.

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 P.S.

Above is a recent interview with Billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page. Around the 20 minute mark they are talking about the unemployment situation in the U.K.  Larry Page offers a solution  – for people to work fewer hours and spend more time with family and on their own interests.

Think about that.  

You have to imagine that Google’s work with robots has something to do with his proposed solution. Couple that with the talk about a guaranteed income in Switzerland and we might be hearing what the future looks like for the working world.  Less work hours for PEOPLE and more free time to live.  What that will mean is that PEOPLE will be able to pursue their own interests (Live the Good Life) and create their own “jobs” based on those interests (again, The Good Life). So, at a minimum we need to know our interests.  It seems like a simple thing to KNOW…except that most people are so miserable in their current jobs that they can’t imagine the good life.

Today visualize the good life.

Just put a picture in your head of what the good life will be for you and your family. Maybe the way of the struggle worklife is coming to an end and those googling “quit my job without another one” are ahead of 80% of the rest of the working population.

 

What if this IS the future and work and you miss the boat by sitting there miserable in a job that you hate, not skilling up and moving toward what interests you?

Some risks are worth taking.

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Please Don't Let Student Loan Debt Crush Your Dreams

I want to relocate and be with my fiancé. 

I want to change careers to be somewhere where I am full-time and have benefits since I am currently part-time with no benefits. 

I have student loans coming due for payment.

Bigger City = Bigger Opportunities and I want to get out of my parent’s home.

~Worker Living in ILLINOIS

Oh, to be young and starting out.

Hopes, dreams, opportunities, and student loans.

WAIT, student loans, that doesn’t fit with hopes, dreams and opportunities.

No, it doesn’t; but it’s a fact of life for many of us.

Student loans, credit card debt, mortgages, car loans, on and on and on. 

These obligations hang over our heads like a hammer to remind us that we can’t “Just Quit”.

We have to have another job lined up, don’t we? 

Maybe, but maybe not.

Work Step 2 today…

run the numbers again…

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If You Fell Into Your Profession...You Don't HAVE To Stay...

In addition to providing no challenge, or fulfillment — my current job is completely unrelated to my personal interests and values.

I fell into the position because it paid very well and came with a certain degree of prestige, but I’ve never truly been interested in the work, or the industry and I’ve been looking for a way out since I hit the three-month mark (I’m currently a week shy of two years).

I’m not able to use my natural strengths, and I am 100% confident that this job is in no way related to my true purpose.

I can also no longer tolerate working with my manager or as part of a “corporate” culture.

~Worker Living in NEW YORK 

We know.

We know when we don’t fit.

No amount of money or prestige can hold us when we already know.

Just because we “fell into a profession” doesn’t mean a thing.

You are not stuck there.

You can change it.

Today, start moving towards your personal interests and values.

Don’t wait until tomorrow, start TODAY.

Your true purpose in life will only unfold when you let go of what is not working.

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If Where You Work Is A Broken Mess...Just Move On...

I can’t work another day with the person they hired as my direct supervisor (hired because she is married to the supervisor of my area, but with limited skill and no proof of her abilities).

~Worker Living in INDIANA

We all know that life is not fair.

We already know this.

We know that people are not always hired because of their skills and abilities but because of who they are, who they know, or how they look.

Okay, it happens.

Now, we have to get over it.

WE have to move on.

We have to leave these supervisors, departments, companies, and organizations to their own devises…we need to

MOVE ON

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Have the Courage to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love

I am sick of missing out on doing the thing I love doing most.

Surfing.

I work away from the surf for two weeks then come home for one week to look after my kids.

I can go surfing while they are at school only.

This is frustrating me and I’ve never had the courage to do anything about it.

~Worker Living in AUSTRALIA

“Just Quit” is about courage. 

Have courage to do what you know is right for you.

You will know when it’s time to surf (do what you love) fulltime. 

You will know and no one will be able to stop you.

Once you know and are prepared you have to have the COURAGE to do it.

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