Quitting Job

[burmafrd]

Is it affecting your health? That is a key. If it is haul ***. My last two years with the DOD were horrendous as more stupidity kept coming from up top and all sorts of garbage as well. But I had retirement to look forward to so I was able to make it. If I had say 5 years or so to go I do not know if I could have stood it. One of the most insulting things of all was that two years ago we were required to retake our oath. I was so enraged- garbage politicians and desk jockies who would not know a real oath if It ran over them say I need to swear an oath again. As far as I was concerned that truly was the last straw. To me you only need to take an oath once in your life. If you need to do it more often then its worthless.

 

[DandyDon1722]

There's a lot of jobs out there now. If this were 2008, I would say you are a fool. You'll be fine.

This is true - also if were about ten years later you might be in trouble due to technology so you are in a good window.

I've always worked for myself because I have that risk taking gene so I've had plenty of experience being where you are in between creating opportunities but here's a suggestion. I am seriously thinking about teaching - time to give back and I've done some guest speaking in some colleges and I really like the energy from kids. I know colleges and universities require Masters degrees but there are a lot of trade and speciality schools out there who I bet could use your experience. You could even do it part time while you're looking - kind of what I did as a guest speaker.

I'm not sure what you do exactly but I bet your business experience would be immensely educational. Just a thought.

Hang in there - tough times don't last - tough people do.

 

[maxdallasfan]

Just live off of welfare and food stamps. 43 million people are now doing it. We're the stupid ones, who work for a living.

The people in the house next to my office do it. They talk on the phone all day outside while on their laptop, discussing last night's party and yesterday's PS4 activity. The only time they leave is every Tuesday, when the local food bank is open for their shopping needs.

 

[KJJ]

I have a job (I'm a project manager) that pays really well, but over the last few months it's been torture going into work. I finally decided to turn in my resignation this afternoon. I have no job to fall back on, but I do have a few months of savings to get me through.

Has anybody else done this? I'm not kidding anyone when I say I'm scared as hell as I haven't even looked for another job. I know I won't get paid like I am now but I'm 53 years old and I can't see myself doing this job any longer.

If the job pays don't quit until you have another one lined up just put up with it until then. If you have no other job to fall back on you could end up in trouble.

 

[Jammer]

Is it affecting your health? That is a key. If it is haul ***.

In a word, yes. Sometimes I get about 2 hours of sleep a night as I'm always thinking about the job. I don't know how my wife puts up with me. I'm always in a rotten mood.

 

[DFWJC]

Life is too short if it's affecting your health.

Yes, ideally, you'd be far along in your job search (or even already have a job) before quitting. That's something I'd always very strongly recommend. But only you know what your breaking point is....and that ship has sailed anyway.

Good luck and stay positive.

Things will work out if you remain proactive. It sounds like you're plenty employable.

 

[punchnjudy]

Sounds like they would let you work part-time until you found something. That might be something to consider as it would likely be more pay than unemployment and give you time to job search.

 

[burmafrd]

In a word, yes. Sometimes I get about 2 hours of sleep a night as I'm always thinking about the job. I don't know how my wife puts up with me. I'm always in a rotten mood.

bluntly speaking with unemployment and other things like food stamps and such if you can cut out now do it. That part time suggestion- take a shot at that as well. Your health and it sounds like your marriage is under serious stress and frankly that is a lot more important then perhaps losing some material things. If you think you can hold on to your home, etc while being out of a job for several months leave NOW. It is just not worth what it is doing to you.

 

[Nova]

I've done it once.

Savings go quickly. It took me 2 months to get back into work

When I got back to work, it was just a temporary job that paid crappy, but enough to slow the bleeding. Stayed there 6 weeks before I got back into my field and in a better career path.

It was very stressful at times, but sometimes enough is enough.

I highly recommend staying at your job as long as they continue to let you while you search.

That said, enough was enough for me and I would not have changed a thing. I would quit that job again.

 

[DallasDomination]

Yes I wasted 8 years of my life and time at Homedepot ..wow what was I thinking. I was young and dumb. I quit that worthless job and I don't regret a second of it. Now I work for the railroad which is kind of crap too but it's better than Home freaking Depot lol.

 

[Longboysfan]

Yes I wasted 8 years of my life and time at Homedepot ..wow what was I thinking. I was young and dumb. I quit that worthless job and I don't regret a second of it. Now I work for the railroad which is kind of crap too but it's better than Home freaking Depot lol.

Dam... I wanted to work at Home Depot....

Sending Customes to the wrong end of the building. Gold....

 

[cml750]

My company is not the same as it once was. I've been with them 10 years and the last couple of years it seems like they keep tying my hands behind my back preventing me from doing my job. I used to be able to buy equipment and materials with my credit card or have a crew chief buy it. Now, I have to submit paperwork to our corporate office, get it approved, and then it gets ordered which takes days. I don't have days. I'm not talking about big ticket items either. I'm talking miscellaneous hardware like screws and bolts. I also can't use the technicians I want. I have to use what's available and for some reason some of our techs suck. I'm responsible for creating proposals and budgets but if I'm getting garbage in I can't make a turd smell like a rose continually. I've have 80+ projects worth around $25 million and I never went over budget or schedule, until now. Other divisions have lost money and mine hasn't but as usual "it's what have you done for me lately." There is lots more, but this is just the tip.

I feel your pain. I am the quality manger at the site I work at for a global company. I am over the lab and am given a capital budget every year to buy and/or upgrade lab analyzers. I get approved to spend X amount of money and they fight the whole way when I am trying to spend it on things I know are the best for the business and at the end of the year if I have any money left in the capital budget they get mad. They make it so hard for me to spend the money they have already approved for me to spend, that I would prefer to not buy ANYTHING. As a matter of fact, we just had a project manager leave this past Friday for the same reason. He had already lined up another job before but he is one of the sharpest guys I have ever dealt with. It is a big loss for our company. We also have to jump through hoops to spend money from our regular budgets too and had our company credit cards taken away forcing us to make PO's for anything we need to buy even if it is just nuts and bolts. If I were you, I would find another job before quitting.

 

[darthseinfeld]

What can you get on unemployment

 

[JoeKing]

Living life without a net is the only way to do it. I did the exact same thing when I turned 40 and hated my job as an office manager. Doors opened for me only when I was forced to open them.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Just live off of welfare and food stamps. 43 million people are now doing it. We're the stupid ones, who work for a living.

The people in the house next to my office do it. They talk on the phone all day outside while on their laptop, discussing last night's party and yesterday's PS4 activity. The only time they leave is every Tuesday, when the local food bank is open for their shopping needs.

1. More than 20% of the U.S. population receives public assistance
In 2012, roughly one-fifth of the U.S. population, or 52.2 million people, received some kind of means-tested public assistance every month. About 15% of the population was receiving Medicaid and 13% were on food stamps. Just 1% were getting cash benefits through TANF or General Assistance.

http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-...stats-about-public-assistance.html/?a=viewall


Its great that as a nation we can help the needy. I know of a family on "assistance" that has a fairly new Suburban and 2 BMW's in the driveway. They would be in far worse shape if they actually had jobs.

 

[maxdallasfan]

1. More than 20% of the U.S. population receives public assistance
In 2012, roughly one-fifth of the U.S. population, or 52.2 million people, received some kind of means-tested public assistance every month. About 15% of the population was receiving Medicaid and 13% were on food stamps. Just 1% were getting cash benefits through TANF or General Assistance.

http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-...stats-about-public-assistance.html/?a=viewall


Its great that as a nation we can help the needy. I know of a family on "assistance" that has a fairly new Suburban and 2 BMW's in the driveway. They would be in far worse shape if they actually had jobs.

Darn, my statistics were wrong. Thanks for the bad news. Ugh.

Just this morning I ran into the post office at 8am to mail a package. A lady was at the window in her pajamas and pink slippers screaming at the Post Office employees because her "check" didn't come on Saturday. So she screams about her check and i'm now late for work. Wonderful.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Darn, my statistics were wrong. Thanks for the bad news. Ugh.

Just this morning I ran into the post office at 8am to mail a package. A lady was at the window in her pajamas and pink slippers screaming at the Post Office employees because her "check" didn't come on Saturday. So she screams about her check and i'm now late for work. Wonderful.

If you were a sympathetic and compassionate person you would have "helped her out." If you were a progressive you would have joined her in screaming at the postal employees for not delivering other people's money to her on time.

 

[iceberg]

Darn, my statistics were wrong. Thanks for the bad news. Ugh.

Just this morning I ran into the post office at 8am to mail a package. A lady was at the window in her pajamas and pink slippers screaming at the Post Office employees because her "check" didn't come on Saturday. So she screams about her check and i'm now late for work. Wonderful.

and her screaming at someone who's got nothing to do with her check is likely the reason she's not very employable. just stupid.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I've done it.

When I was 20.

And the job didn't pay well.

I'm not trying to be mean here but if you've got a well paying job you don't quit without another job lined up. It just doesn't make a lick of sense.

Hopefully it works out for you.

 

[iceberg]

I've done it.

When I was 20.

And the job didn't pay well.

I'm not trying to be mean here but if you've got a well paying job you don't quit without another job lined up. It just doesn't make a lick of sense.

Hopefully it works out for you.

no, it wouldn't. not to me, not to my father. and to many, no. but to some that is the fastest way out is to cut ties with their support and "force" that change. also to many sitting in a cube working on a computer so you can go home and get a few hours of visitation with family and friends before dinner and bed and a quick repeat also doesn't make a lick of sense.

when pushed to an individual point of change, change will happen. rarely is it the same for 2 people.