[DoodleBob]

I know of one former colleague who expressed "buyers remorse" before he left our workplace. This came after the colleague heard horror stories from someone who left his soon-to-be new employer.

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. Then you join a gleaming new employer, only to find that place is...yup, filled with sniveling little twerps as well, except NOW you don't have a power base.

If employers are about to layoff people because of the economy, you don't want to be LIFO.

[joesbucks]

I retired in sept. 2020. Don’t regret it one bit. Didn’t hate the work. Didn’t hate the people. Hated the “have to” part it. Have to do it their way. Do lunch on their schedule. Have to take time off when they allow it. I very much enjoy my downtime and doing things on my schedule.

[Spok]

Work ethic is associated with white Christians and is therefore evil. The Russian communists motivate people to work with threats of prison, in China they just shoot you. Coming soon to your work place.

[rb22982]

I left my job last fall for another one with a ~25% total compensation bump (15% base/bonus bump, 50% more stock comp). Not perfect but overall pleased with the switch. Just have another 3.5 years for my initial grants to fully vest and then retirement time!

[kosciusko51]

I finally switched jobs this spring after being with my former employer for quite some time. I moved from a split management/engineering position to pure engineering.

Better pay, less paperwork, less stress, and doing more of what I like to do.

So far a win-win.

[VTenigma]

In a few months people will be crawling on their knees for work and it won’t be because of voluntary separation.

[T.B. Yoits]

One, it's MSN so it's dubious at best. Two, even if it was close to true, that's 74% who left their jobs and don't regret it.

[joma89]

Agreed. The other side of every fence is astroturf. I take the tact that if you pay me more, and I work less, I will move since I know every company has their fair share of twerps.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Which Also Means That 74% of Workers DON’T Regret Leaving Their Jobs During the Great Resignation.

[knarf]

It is in American DNA, along with an almost arrogant love of liberty and freedom, the indwelt spirit to work.

I don't think it is a generalization to say that it is America, and more specifically, and under an acute microscope . . .

. . . the American workers' tax dollars that have time and time again bailed out every nation on the globe at one time or another.

We cherish land ownership and freedom above all else and have learned (been taught by our fathers), that the only way to have things is to work for them.

Work generates wealth and wealth in the possession of a moral entity does nothing but good things.

We have an increasingly growing population of males that either never learned to work or traded it off for government largess.

What kind of work mentality or morality can these males (intentionally avoiding "men"), pass on to their children ?

They can't.

[CurlyDave]

About midway through my career I made the decision that instead of putting in extra time at work, hoping for a promotion, I would devote my extra time to a money-making side gig. I chose real estate and although it was a stretch, bought and fixed up a rental house. It took every nickel of reserve I had saved up, but it worked.

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.

[cuban leaf]

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.

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Exactly. I retired early about 16 months ago because I had a very minor mini-stroke and knew the stress needed to end. I was 67 at the time and, frankly, looking for an excuse, but the money was too good.

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.

[newzjunkey]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[frogjerk]

Joblist found that 26% of workers aren't happy with their decision to quit a job.

74% are happy about their decision. That's a pretty high percentage!

[dakine]

Dinosaur here...

Same employer for ~40 years...

Don’t even have a resume...

[Manic_Episode]

Went Galt and retired 4 years early and moved up north.

This is by far the best my life has ever been.
Great vantage point to watch the world implode while my redemption draweth nigh.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If you are good, most employers will happy to have you back. You are trained, after all, and there are no on-boarding costs.

If you aren’t good, they were happy to have you leave so they didn’t have to pay any severance benefits.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Isn't there an adage about this?

[wbslws]

I quit my job in 2017 after 32 years after going through 3 company buyouts. The last company that bought us made a good company terrible. When they brought out their new bonus program, I called it quits. It was another carrot in front of the horse gimmicks. They would only pay the bonus one time per year and they could end it any time they chose without paying out anything, and they could decide who would or would not get the bonus.

[bk1000]

Article talks about people just quitting their jobs. It’s much easier to get a job if you have a job. Are they quitting with no intention of working? Who will feed them? (the last bit is sarcasm)