"Just Quit" is About A Journey and A Purpose...It's Not About A Job

After six years with my current employer I am starting to feel like I am going in circles.

I am not really in a good position to advance because I work remotely and yet I am one of the longest employed marketing professionals in my segment of the company.

I find I don’t have the patience for the interactions. They feel meaningless.

We are doing neat things as a company but I don’t feel like there is any celebration of what we do. Criticism is just heaped on top of criticism and there is always some opportunity that we missed that is reason for disappointment.

I don’t really believe anymore that the path that I am on is right for me. Maybe it was two, three, four years ago. But I am back in the same place that I have been several times and I am left wondering when will it be enough.

~Worker Living in MINNESOTA

“Just Quit” is a journey.

A journey that should never end.

You should always be letting go to let come.  Your passions will change.  Your interests will change.  You will gain skills and perfect them over time. 

Things will get boring as you do them over and over again. That’s ok. 

You are just growing. You may have outgrown your job and feel like you are “going in circles”. 

It’s just time to go back to the Steps so you can move forward on your journey.

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Endings Lead to Beginnings...Begin Again...

The company culture does not support the unit, or me.

It affronts my values.

I don’t respect my boss because she chooses not to trust me.

~Worker Living in CANADA

Knowing what we value helps us to find a profession that we love and are passionate about.

If we know that where we are currently working affronts our values then we need to determine when we will bring this job to an end.

The cycle of life consists of new beginnings followed by an ending.

Birth, death, and rebirth.

Use the fact that you know what you value to help you bring an end to this particular job,  so you can start doing something you are passionate about.

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It's Labor Day 2019 - A Great Day For A BreakThrough

SEPTEMBER

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

~ Alfred Tennyson  

I’m at a glass ceiling.

The job is boring. They have not had a raise in five years at this company.

I feel that life is passing me by.

~Worker Living in GEORGIA

We need to breakthrough.

It’s not about the glass ceilings that companies or organizations erect; but the ones that we erect in our own minds.

It starts with the broken record of negative thoughts that swirl around in our minds about our situation, about the possibilities, about our dashed dreams, about the useless degree, about the missed opportunities, about the lack of ideas, about the ideas that didn’t work….the breakthrough starts with your thoughts.

Think Differently Today.

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P.S.

If you’re reading this and in the U.S. more than likely you have a day OFF of work.  OFF for Labor Day.  So, make a good use of  this day.  How do you do that?  Ask yourself this one question and just wait for the answer to emerge…

If I could do ANYTHING with my LABOR (physical and mental effort to create goods and services) what would it be?

NOW…once the answer emerges (and it will, if you keep asking that question)…MOVE towards it…do something to create that good or service…JUST START and then keep going…(BTW…what is the point of all of your experiences, jobs, books you’ve read, places you’ve been, skills you’ve developed, things you know….if…you are not going to DO something with it all…that MAYBE only YOU can do?  What is the point? It might take a LONG time for things to materialize, but it will NEVER happen if you don’t START.  Create SOMETHING with your labor that you are proud of and that improves you and your corner of the world. )

labor:

The aggregate of all human physical and mental effort used in creation of goods and services.

Labor is a primary factor of production. The size of a nation’s labor force is determined by the size of its adult population, and the extent to which the adults are either working or are prepared to offer their labor for wages

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/labor.html#ixzz3C4IeI6tG

Accepting What Is...Is POWERFUL

I’m stressed to the point of being sick.

I’m undervalued.

I’m overwhelmed with feeling of being out of my depth.

I’m in the wrong company –it’s small, there’s no structure and no support.  I feel ignored.  I don’t know what’s needed of me. I feel isolated. I clock watch, and time drags.

There is the fear of failure. The money is poor (it’s half what I was earning five years ago). There are longer than usual hours and I’m unusually tired.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

Today, take every single thing that is WRONG with your job and make it RIGHT. 

How do you make it right you might ask?

Accept it.

Just accept it is what it is.  This is the way it is… for you right now… working at this place.

Yep, somehow you ended up here and this is how it is.  You have to FIRST accept it is this way… before you can move forward.

Guess What? Maybe it IS this way so you CAN move forward.

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Okay, So You Ended Up With A Boss. It Happens. Now Decide What To Do.

My boss is impossible to work with. He’s arrogant, condescending, and passive aggressive.

He blames me for EVERYTHING even if it’s not my fault and then, when it turns out to be a glitch with the software or when it turns out to be HIS fault, then, suddenly, it was no big deal.

He has MANY MANY  MANY rules that are difficult to abide by because the rules continue to change. What was okay yesterday isn’t okay today. He’ll say one thing and then say the opposite. Or he’ll claim to have told me something even though he hadn’t.

He lies and exaggerates deadlines if I need the day or afternoon off for appointments. I get no medical coverage, no benefits, no sick days, and no vacation days.

~Worker Living in NEW YORK

Today, we will take a look at our immediate supervisors.

There are issues. There are always issues with our bosses.

Some of the issues are worse than others, just like some of the bosses we’ve had have been worse than this one.

We can’t change our boss, but we can change ourselves. 

We are adults. We can make the decision to stay or leave.

We can make the decision to transfer within the organization or not.

We can decide.

We are only stuck if we continue to believe that we are stuck. The moment we start moving towards getting un-stuck; we realize we are not stuck in cement like we thought.

We can make a change in our lives…and we will. 

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What Are Your Dependable Skills? Those Innate Talents and Skills That Are With You No Matter What You Do or Where You Work.

I have been in finance for 17 years and it has gone completely stale for me.

I can’t stand sitting in front of a computer playing with Excel spreadsheets all day anymore.

Every morning I’m sick to my stomach when I wake up and find it almost painful to do my tasks at work.

I realize now that the business world is not for me. 

~Worker Living in NEW JERSEY

Sometimes it’s the work itself and we have finally realized it.  We just can’t or don’t want to do the tasks anymore.  They have grown old on us.  We need to take them off like clothes that are too small.  This is good to know. We just need something new.  Once we get to this point we will eventually start to get VERY excited, because NOW we can choose our next venture.

We can start preparing for the next thing.

As we progress on this road of finding our life’s work we can get really hung-up in looking for the next “job”.

We want to be doing something we think would be interesting, but it’s not quite what we’ve done in the past. 

Then what happens? We don’t get any call backs for an interview.  We don’t get any calls at all. 

Then what happens? We think we need to go back to school or to get a certification or something to learn about a new field.

Then what happens? We are still stuck in our jobs we have outgrown, we have the credentials for a new field, but we STILL don’t get any calls for interviews.

BEFORE you do anything (and especially if you are thinking of spending any money on it) just stop and make SURE you are clear on your “dependable skills”.  Those innate talents and skills that are with you no matter what you do or where you work.  It is those skills that point to your life’s work. You need to blend those skills with tasks that you want to do. 

Just don’t jump back into another “job” with different tasks too quickly… use this time to really search your soul for your life’s work.

 You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

What Are YOUR Goals for the Next 5 Days, 5 Weeks, 5 Months, 5 Years & 50 Years?

I am so busy at work that I don’t even have the time to look for another job unless I quit my current job.

~Worker Living in CANADA

Today, if I am too busy working day in and day out at my current job, and I am not happy, and I don’t have enough time to look for another job; then I need to immediately go to Step 2 – Dealing with Finances. 

If I am working this hard and this much; then it needs to be worth it. 

It needs to be worth it so much that I can see a plan to have six months of expenses saved. 

If I do my spreadsheet and things are not adding up, then I have to ask myself WHY am I so busy doing this work…where is it getting ME?  

P.S.

Please don’t just read this.  Write down one goal you want to achieve in the next five days, then one goal in the next five weeks, then five months, five years and one goal in the next 50 years.

START with the goal 50 years from now. It will help you understand the IMPORTANCE of your life.  It will be about your LEGACY. This is not a dress rehearsal. This is YOUR life and the world needs you to do what you are meant to do…and you are not meant to be miserable day in and day out.

You might be reading this and are absolutely miserable right now today…BUT…five days from now YOU can make a goal that will help you NOT be miserable…EVEN if your goals/plans haven’t worked out so far in your life…just give it one more go…

Stop reading…stop surfing the internet…pull out a piece of paper and start writing…50 years from now I want to be or I want people to remember me for???

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live