Posted on 10/22/2022 7:41:46 AM PDT by DoodleBob
If you've been thinking about quitting your job, you're in good company. Joblist reports that almost 48 million Americans quit a job in 2021.
But now, some are starting to regret that choice. In fact, in a recent survey, Joblist found that 26% of workers aren't happy with their decision to quit a job.
Now, you may have different reasons for wanting to leave your job. Maybe you're unhappy with your pay. Or maybe your salary is decent enough, but you find the work you do boring and uninspiring. You may even be thinking of quitting to escape a group of colleagues who are too competitive and cutthroat for your taste.
All of these are understandable reasons for bidding a job adieu. But the last thing you want to do is quit your job and regret it later. So to that end, take these three steps first.
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Somehow the security of having an outside income made me more valuable at my main job and my career and satisfaction improved greatly. And, over time, my total income grew to match that of people two levels above me in the organization.
Best of all, when it came time to retire I had enough rentals that I now have a part-time job in retirement and financial freedom.
Demand your red stapler!
No company is perfect, and many workplaces have sniveling little twerps (often in senior management) who can make the place “unbearable” as you make close to six figures.
The stress was caused by the WFH environment and most of my time spent in webex meetings where it was very hard to understand what was going on, and nothing was getting done. The stress came from the feeling I was doing nothing for the money.
But a year later I found out that is what EVERYBODY felt like and nothing was, in fact, getting done. If I’d known that I could have, guilt/stress free, wasted my time in those meetings while I continued to earn a fat paycheck.
BTW, this is how nations collapse.
What is tax money but a portion of one’s earnings, and what are earnings but work? And what is work? A person’s literal life blood.
That said, a society can only run so long on the efforts (work) of those who came before. Some people are contributing nothing. Others are barely contributing by shuffling around—creating efficiencies—the productive work of others. It’s the actual producers who drive the economy, and we are creating fewer and fewer of those.
How long can a society thrive when its women no longer produce the next generation of workers and its men would rather play video games then build civilization?
“In the sweet old country where I come from, nobody ever works, and nothing gets done, we hang fire.”
-The Rolling Stones
Amen.
I haven’t missed many days of work in the 40 years since I graduated college, even when laid off k(after 22 years with my previous employer) I made ‘looking for a job’ my job 10 hours a day. Have a great one now. Got ‘work ethic’ beat into me at a young age (thanks mom and dad!).
That said- *nobody* works harder than the Mexicans and other Latinos around here. Young, old, male, female, the ones I know and interact with work *HARD*; guys my age (60) who do the 10-12 hours of brutal physical labor I did in my late teens and early 20’s.
And of course the idiot bigot to whom you were responding has never heard of Jews, Koreans or Chinese working hard and becoming the very essence of the American Dream.
Nothing to be ashamed about being a White and/or a Christian, nothing that makes one better than anyone else about it, either, at least as far as being a Citizen, a friend, and/or a co-worker.
Bigots suck.
. . . OR DO SO IN A LANGUAGE AND MINDSET OTHER THAN AMERICAN ENGLLISH ?
Similar story - I was battling a lot too
Still I blame the 2008 crash on W.
I this at 65 and loving it.
I this year at 65 and loving it.
I’ve been trying for something new but battling major car issues.
Signed up for Zip Recruiter - all they’ve done is spam me daily with zero results.
Feels like 2008 where all I did was waste my time where people didn’t REALLY want to hire......
…than build civilization.
Engllish… love typing on these small screens…and autocorrect!
It’s 26 percent who will admit that they regret it. Many were not polled because they are living in the car life community down by the train tracks.
My pay isn’t enough, the work is boring, uninspiring. I am tired of short staffing and my six day stretches. Even my “day off” I might work from home. I cannot rest and disconnect. But I also know I’ll weather a Biden recession better where I am than trying to move elsewhere. I am not old by an stretch but I expect my age is still a barrier to a new career or starting fresh at least at the same income.
Well, you can only go hiking and biking so much before it starts to get boring. Sitting in long lines to get into Yellowstone and Grand Canyon is just as bad.
Well, it depends on if you really take that comment seriously.
I took it to be a snarky sarcastic remark, not a serious statement about work ethics.
There is sarcasm and snark on this site sometimes.
74% are happy about their decision. That's a pretty high percentage!
I also saw the remark as sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek. “The work ethic is a white thing” is a leftist position that is actually held by some fools. But not seriously held by any Freeper. Maybe he just coulda used the /s sarcasm tag.
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