Paying The Mortgage AND Having A Career With Meaning

I need to quit to keep my sanity. I am so stressed that I can’t focus.

I hate getting up in the morning to go to work, but tell myself “I have to pay the mortgage!”

I used to like what I do but now I don’t care anymore. I don’t like feeling like this. I’m getting close to retirement and I want to find something I’ll enjoy doing again – an “encore career” –  that has meaning, but I’m afraid that I’ll slip into poverty over time.

~Worker Living in NEW YORK

How did it happen where the choice is to pay the mortgage vs. a career with meaning? How and when did this happen?

We can do both.  We can have a career that has meaning to us AND pay the mortgage. It takes some planning but we can make it happen.

“This” is our job…to find our life’s work… our reason for being here on planet earth…and it is NOT to get a paycheck to pay the mortgage.

If we actively pursue our life’s work –  WITHOUT FEAR  – the universe will actively work with us to make the connections.  Doors will open.  Doors WILL open.

You HAVE To Let Go In Order To Let Come

Quitting will allow me to review my life and bring my focus back to getting together what I’m really passionate about doing which is massaging and educating.

It will allow me to accept whatever will come next and not worry about financial  concerns just as long as I stick with the plan.

I don’t want to be sick again, depressed and blindsided.

This job was making me sick mentally, physically and emotionally.

~Worker Living in California

We have to let go of what is not working in order to let come what will work.

It’s as simple as that.

Come Up From The Brink and Do Something About Your Career Today

I simply hate my job. 16 years of my life has been wasted on a mindless job with terrible hours.  

~Worker Living in Ohio

Year after year after year we sit in mindless jobs. 

Jobs that don’t fulfill us. 

Jobs that pay the bills but not much more than that. 

Jobs that interfere with living…with our lives. 

It doesn’t have to be this way…not year after year after year. 

Times are changing. 

People are waking up. 

You can be a part of this awakening: living authentically, doing work that you love, coming up from the brink, to live with purpose.   

Are You Literally Dying In Your Job? It's Time To Wake Up & Live

I am a Contract Manager in a Fortune 50 company making more than $100k/yr. and have been doing this for about 15 years.

My workplace is a mass of chaos and confusion. I’ve given up trying to make a difference because my efforts don’t seem to work out any more, or they take so long to realize that the excitement I felt at the beginning is all but dried up by the end.

Although I absolutely love aspects of what I do – writing and negotiating contract language, crafting strategy and making the business customers happy with a good contract – I am just run dry from the same cycles and discussions over and over, year after year, and how in this company nothing seems to ever get better.  It’s just more work, more work, more work, less recognition, less opportunity for development, less money, promotions,  and growth.

I am a single parent of a 5-year-old child, trying to juggle a high pressure job, my growing child, a house, navigation of the other parent, feeling overwhelmed and bored at the same time. In short, I feel burnt out and tired. I want to do something new, different, something that matters and that I can see the results of immediately or in a short amount of time. I think about teaching children and what that would look like, not to mention having summers off. I feel like as long as I am in my current job I’ll never find a way to get to a new job.

I’ve left jobs before, big jobs, without having another lined up, and both times I ended up in better positions than I would have if I hadn’t left. But those times were before I had a child, a mortgage, an ex that I don’t always get along with, before I was this close to middle age.

But I am dying in this job. Literally dying. And feeling worse and worse every day, and wondering what I’m teaching my son about life and what work means when he sees me dragging around the house at the end of the day, either depressed, resigned or pissed off. I have lots of reasons to quit, more than I can possibly put here.

So I’ll stop and call this good enough for now.

~Worker Living in California

All of our stories are good enough.  No matter how we tell them.  No matter how we share them, they are good enough because they help all of us to learn and to grow.

Today, if you know that you are “dying in this job” then count yourself among the lucky ones.

You are aware.  You have admitted it.  You are awake.

Now take the next step and start planning to move towards what will bring you back to life, so you can make a difference in this world.

Walk Across The Bridge To A Brighter Tomorrow

I quit my job without having another job lined up.

I was asked on multiple occasions to perform task which were illegal and unethical.

This Monday I realized I didn’t need to stay in this organization.

There were intimidation tactics and negativity. I was coached and told that I was too professional, and too positive. I have never heard that in my entire career.

Two of the co-workers were toxic, one was drunk at work, the other one was verbally abusive.

I took power and quit. I have no regrets.

Most people would have said “don’t burn bridges” but what’s to burn if no bridges ever existed.

~Worker Living in IOWA

There is a bridge. 

Finally you can see the bridge.

Some people will never see it, they will stay stuck thinking it’s a cliff when all along there was a bridge to a brighter day.

This job is just one point in your life; you can walk across to the next point in your life. “Don’t burn bridges” use them to get you to your future that is waiting to unfold.

Know, Be, Trust, Love Yourself

I have lost “MY” Life. 

To all the people out there, if you think you can make a meaning out of your life, make it happen. Do not sit on those silly office chairs and make someone else’s dream happen, make yours a reality…cheers.

~Worker Living in India

We are all here together reading this today.  The message is to  find ourselves. 

Look for your life.  Don’t give up on YOUR dreams.

We did not come to a “Just Quit” state of mind by accident, we have been called to find our authentic selves.

Today, Make A List Of The Things That You Like To Do

I need more time with my family.  I want to get my  house and family life organized. 

For the last few years everything has been a crazy whirlwind and I feel like I am spinning out of control. 

I need to find a new career that would be more suited to family life and allow me the time to spend with my kids and keep a well- organized home.

~Worker Living in South Dakota

Today, make a list of the things that you like to do.

You may not be doing any of these things now, but you need to make a list of those things. It could be walking, painting, meditating, yard work, fishing, cooking, ect. You need this list because you have to start sprinkling these things into your everyday activities.

Sometimes to get out of a whirlwind we need to slow it down just enough for us to be able to find our way out to a calmer environment. We need space to figure things out.

Sprinkling into your day things you love will allow the universe to move you towards this calm place and space. 

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