Life is Too Short to Do Work That’s Not Real and Doesn’t Matter

OCTOBER

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

 ~ Albert Einstein

The job is a joke. It pays good money but the work is meaningless.

I visit schools that don’t want me there and some actively encourage me NOT to come so much so that at times I don’t go and say I did — which makes me feel terrible about myself. Other places let me come and give me work, but the work is minimal – and for the most part has no or only short term outcomes.

I post school visit notes on a website that is named for a division that no longer exists, that the customer has never heard of and that was elaborately designed for a product I don’t deliver and the customer knows nothing about. The customer prefers an email. So…. it’s like I write these notes two to three times and sometimes for visits that didn’t take place. This is common practice among people in my position, but that is cold comfort.

I am required to run a national network and have monthly Google hangouts. So many people have quit or been fired that there are only 2 members left in my group.

I am writing a mystery novel — I have published several short stories on line and have a small fan base — and I steal as much time as I can for this endeavor. I have applied for and interviewed for jobs, but to no avail.

I am miserable. 

~Worker Living in ARIZONA

Some of our jobs aren’t real jobs.

They are “fake” jobs.

You can either go-along or get-out.

Thank your lucky stars if your integrity will no longer allow you to continue to fake it.

Life is too short to do work that’s not real and doesn’t matter.

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

 

 

 

 

Self-Made or Never Made...What's It Going To Be?

Because I do not feel fulfilled.

I do not feel I am living my purpose.

Furthermore, I am fed up with management treating professional adults like elementary kids.

I feel I will be free for the opportunities to flow my way.

~Worker Living in CALIFORNIA

Step 11 – Living our purpose.

When we start living our purpose for being then opportunity will start flowing our way. 

Doors will open.

Ideas will come.

People will appear. 

The possibilities will seem endless.

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

Your Dues Have Been Paid In Full...Now Go...Live Fully

I’ve been incredibly unhappy the past few years.

I started by taking jobs that no one wanted to do in my department in order to “pay my dues”. Now I’m doing the job I had thought I wanted but I’m still unhappy.

The staff has changed since I first started out, and my boss who mentored me is gone. My bossy co-worker is my new boss and doesn’t have any idea of the weekends, evenings and happiness I sacrificed in order to get here. He doesn’t trust me to do my job without looking over it, and requires everything to be just so.

There is no room to grow in this department, and I feel as though I’m not developing any skills in my profession.

I don’t enjoy the work, which also has tight deadlines and causes me so much stress that I’m exhausted when I get home. 

I have random fits of tears and depression, panic attacks and I can’t get my digestion to get back on track. I also feel like it’s preventing me from losing weight despite all efforts.

It’s not what I see myself doing in the future.

~Worker Living in CANADA

We have “paid our dues”.

We have all already “paid our dues”.

Stop “paying your dues” and start doing what you are capable of doing.

Why are we acting, doing, and being less than we are?

If you can’t wrap your head around the fact you don’t need to “pay your dues”; then pretend like it’s 10 years down the road and you have already “paid your dues”; after that time what would you do?  If you know the answer to that and you feel you are capable of doing that right now…then do it now…why wait?

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

Clarity: Knowing What To Ignore & Letting Go of What Is Not Working

I am thinking about quitting my job without another one because I need clarity.

I spend so much of my life working or in school and worrying about if my decision to quit will affect my entire family.

I know I need to take some time off to find some clarity, but I get so nervous that I always talk myself out of it.

My brain is fried and my body is weak. I just can’t take the fact knowing that I am still working in hell.

~Worker Living in OHIO

Today, ask for clarity, right now and today.

We need clarity to be able to make a good decision.

We need clarity to know what to do next with our lives.

We need clarity to know how to move forward.

Ask for what you want and need.

Clarity.

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

Emotional Intelligence Gives You The Power To Move Forward

I have nothing but contempt and feel as if my life is being wasted.

~Worker Living in NEW JERSEY

On Plutchik’s color wheel of emotions, the emotion of contempt is between rage, anger, loathing and disgust.

If I have contempt for my job today I will ask myself:  “Why am I living in this swirl of negative emotions?

How can I balance it with joy, trust, and anticipation?”  It’s not a trick question.  We need to balance negative emotions with positive ones.

How can we do that today?

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

Get Beyond the WHY and Move on to HOW to Connect to Your Purpose

This job is such a spiritual, emotional and integrity disconnect. 

I fantasize about escape every day and can’t breathe. 

I know there has to be more to life.  

~Worker Living in FLORIDA

In order for us to get connected back to ourselves, our hopes, our dreams, and our purpose we have to know if we are disconnected.

If we KNOW we are disconnected it doesn’t really matter why.  We all know the reason why…we needed a job…we need a salary…we haven’t been able to find another job…ect…ect…ect…, but NONE of that truly matters…we are still disconnected.

Get beyond WHY and just move on to HOW.

How are you going to get connected?

What type of job (maybe it’s not a job; maybe THAT is the problem, you think you need to find ANOTHER job); profession; cause; or endeavor will connect you to your authentic self.

There is only ONE you. Connect back to your hopes, your dreams (even those that seem dashed), and most importantly, connect back to your purpose.

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

See Your Boss Today As Just Another Person With Problems, Hopes and Dreams...Just Like You.

I feel unappreciated and undervalued and my boss does not listen. 

My job is  manual and the data entry is killing my arm. I pulled my side muscle lifting boxes.

The boss is always making snide remarks about someone, and I got one of my co-worker a job and it has been a h*ll hole ever since.

~Worker Living in ARKANSAS

Our bosses are just people. 

They are just people like we are. 

They are people with problems, families, issues, hopes, and dreams.

Have you ever considered that people can’t give you something that they don’t have to give? 

Have you ever considered that your boss might be miserable as well? 

Let’s sit back today, regardless of how we feel about our bosses or how miserable they are making our lives and realize that they are just people.  We won’t work for them always, one day we will be gone, we will move on or they will move on, but that boss has to live with themselves…always.

 

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