It Does Matter How We Leave Our Jobs. We Need To Leave With Integrity and Dignity.

Being at a job for over 19 months that I didn’t go to school for is more than enough.

I need to gain experience and have an interest in what I am doing.

I don’t enjoy the majority of the people I work with.

My boss is an ogre who leaves for hours at a time only to give me minimal instruction or support.

I don’t have any benefits and the only thing that keeps me there is the pay which is higher than most jobs for people my age.

~Worker Living in PENNSYLVANIA

While we are on the job today we need to recognize that there is someone always watching.

Just like you are watching your boss and their actions someone somewhere is watching you.

Even if you are miserable, even if you are looking for another job, even if you say: “I don’t care.”; still think about your legacy after you are gone…and one day you will be gone…what will they remember about you?

What type of legacy will you leave there? These are just questions to consider.

It does matter how we leave a place.

We need to leave with integrity.

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Your Ideas, A Book, A Cause...CREATE something you are proud of, is needed and offer it up to the world.

I psychologically can’t handle working with sales.

The downs in sales, makes me feel worthless.

~Worker Living in DENMARK

Today, I will work on my sales pitch for MYSELF.

A sales pitch for an idea that I have, a book I want to promote, a cause I’m passionate about, my art, my music, my next interview, my whatever…I will sell myself…even if it is only to myself.

We are all sales people.

We are not worthless.

We all have value.

We have something to offer to the world and we need to offer it up.

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Below  is a survey link which has a list of questions to help you determine if you are READY to Just Quit Your Job Without Another One.  Take Our Survey!  

Today’s Workplace Entry is from Denmark:

• Language: Danish
• Currency: Danish Kroner
• Viking Country – for about 400 years Viking longboats were feared across Europe and Denmark was Europe’s superpower.
• Lego’s were invented here.
• Copenhagen is famous for being a bike city

Take a Break From the Rat Race & Follow YOUR Dreams

I need a sabbatical, recuperation, and I want to work on other projects.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

We all need a break from time to time.

How wonderful it would be if we could “Just Quit” our jobs on a trial basis and come back in three months if we decided to; if we couldn’t figure out what we wanted to do; if we had enough income for that three months to be able to live comfortably; to do what we really want to do for just three months.

Well, that’s not how it is; but what if it was

…hmmm…could it be???

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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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