I quit my job today...

[alwayssearching202]

I have one lead on another position in my field but with a smaller company, however, I am not putting much weight into getting an offer. Despite having an advanced degree and 10+ years of solid experience in my industry, it is an extremely challenging job market. I even had a former colleague (well respected in our industry) email the CEO of a company directly singing my praises and I didn't even get an interview. It's tough out there.

I'll either find a role at a company that doesn't require me to sell my soul to the devil or I will run out of savings and CTB.

I feel liberated.

I feel the tiniest glimpse of happiness for the first time in as long as I can remember.

 

[F@#$]

Good for you,Fuck work! I hate wasting my shitty life so some ungrateful asshole gets rich.

 

[alwayssearching202]

Good for you,Fuck work! I hate wasting my shitty life so some ungrateful asshole gets rich.

Thank you. And exactly. I realize I'm fortunate to have this option. I've also put in my time of working 10+ hour days for nearly twenty years for nothing but making 'some ungrateful asshole rich'. Couldn't have said it better.

 

[SoulCage]

I left my last job about 6 months ago, because it fucked with my brain. Also had 10 years experience in my field, but everytime I switched it got worse. I have little hope that there is anything out there that doesn't make me cry in the office bathrooms.

I truly hope you do find something.

If not - as you said, there is always CTB. The most reliant option to heal endless suffering

 

[alwayssearching202]

I left my last job about 6 months ago, because it fucked with my brain. Also had 10 years experience in my field, but everytime I switched it got worse. I have little hope that there is anything out there that doesn't make me cry in the office bathrooms.

I truly hope you do find something.

If not - as you said, there is always CTB. The most reliant option to heal endless suffering

Crying in the office bathrooms in something I'm familiar with. Is this really all there is to look forward to in this life? How on earth does anyone find one of those careers they can't wait to wake up to every day?!

 

[LastBitOfJoy]

I hated every job I have worked with my soul, I have never enjoyed work, and I can't comprehend how somebody can be fine with these working schedules and environment for their whole lives. It's mostly a shit show.

I am also in a third world country where the pay you get is only matching survival needs. So I should be working for 40 years just to survive, it's a joke.

 

[Tears in Rain]

I have one lead on another position in my field but with a smaller company, however, I am not putting much weight into getting an offer. Despite having an advanced degree and 10+ years of solid experience in my industry, it is an extremely challenging job market. I even had a former colleague (well respected in our industry) email the CEO of a company directly singing my praises and I didn't even get an interview. It's tough out there.

I'll either find a role at a company that doesn't require me to sell my soul to the devil or I will run out of savings and CTB.

I feel liberated.

I feel the tiniest glimpse of happiness for the first time in as long as I can remember.

Good for you @alwayssearching202 , if you're feeling liberated after it, then you've probably made the right choice.
Hopefully you'll find something that isn't soul-crushing, nothing worse than being stuck in s job that drains the life out of you. I hope things work out well for you!

 

[alwayssearching202]

Good for you @alwayssearching202 , if you're feeling liberated after it, then you've probably made the right choice.
Hopefully you'll find something that isn't soul-crushing, nothing worse than being stuck in s job that drains the life out of you. I hope things work out well for you!

Thank you. It's funny. I spent months worried I would be laid off like so many of my colleagues, only to have the epiphany over the holidays I won't spend my last weeks beholden to the whims of a company and don't owe family members any life insurance.

The only question is whether this euphoria I feel is because I am free from corporate chains or because I'm one step closer to CTB. Perhaps it isn't zero sum.

 

[Tired_of_myself]

i quit a 7year job for a new position/another company. the new job was even worse... it makes me so sad... makes me think I don't know how to make money unless some stupid boss humiliates me or the company sucks... I quit the new job and now im making a shitty money, selling some of my stuff and thinking to ctb every day.

 

[alwayssearching202]

i quit a 7year job for a new position/another company. the new job was even worse... it makes me so sad... makes me think I don't know how to make money unless some stupid boss humiliates me or the company sucks... I quit the new job and now im making a shitty money, selling some of my stuff and thinking to ctb every day.

I'm so sorry that is your experience. I don't doubt mine will be similar. Again, I don't mean to seem ungrateful because I had a job. I should have been grateful. It is doubtful I'll find anything else. My decision to quit was weighted more on the premise I will CTB in the next two months more than the thought of greener grass on the job side.

Are there any hobbies or anything you enjoy you could turn into a business? I tell my mother all the time to sell her sewing skills as merchandise on various sites online or even a craft fair. Unfortunately I have no skills other than business.

 

[ScubaCTB]

@alwayssearching202 wrote "I'll either find a role at a company that doesn't require me to sell my soul to the devil."

If you wish to make more than $250,000 per year in this world, then you must sell your soul. Really anything over $200k, you must sell your soul. Starting your own business is a way to make $1 million per year net, without getting a lot of attention. But anything beyond $1 million net profit per year means you have "partners" and business associates who are Satan's lieutenants.

Nobody makes over $250k without an unspoken "sell your soul" contract. If you make more than $10 million per year in the USA, you are a bona fide devil loyalist. You have to be. They don't give that kind of money to people for them to expose the devil's plan.

 

[piryohae3]

Crying in the office bathrooms in something I'm familiar with. Is this really all there is to look forward to in this life? How on earth does anyone find one of those careers they can't wait to wake up to every day?!

Working 8 hours a day for 5 days in a row is too much. But really you're at work more than 8 hours bc of lunch break. Then there's time spent going to and from work, getting ready to go back to work, and other bullshit chores to do. At the end of the day there isn't enough time, money, or energy to do much else.

And to make it even more insulting, the pay is only enough for you to do it all over again. If you have an emergency that's going to cost money, you're screwed bc capitalism says fuck you it's your fault, you don't deserve help bc that's socialist.

 

[Tired_of_myself]

I'm so sorry that is your experience. I don't doubt mine will be similar. Again, I don't mean to seem ungrateful because I had a job. I should have been grateful. It is doubtful I'll find anything else. My decision to quit was weighted more on the premise I will CTB in the next two months more than the thought of greener grass on the job side.

Are there any hobbies or anything you enjoy you could turn into a business? I tell my mother all the time to sell her sewing skills as merchandise on various sites online or even a craft fair. Unfortunately I have no skills other than business.

makes real sense your choice. I think you'll have real time now... this corporate jobs makes us feel numb by unreal problems and exhausting social meetings...

i have some hobbies but not good enough to make money... I will try to study more to be better, but depression makes learning harder. but yeah... keep trying

 

[alwayssearching202]

@alwayssearching202 wrote "I'll either find a role at a company that doesn't require me to sell my soul to the devil."

If you wish to make more than $250,000 per year in this world, then you must sell your soul. Really anything over $200k, you must sell your soul. Starting your own business is a way to make $1 million per year net, without getting a lot of attention. But anything beyond $1 million net profit per year means you have "partners" and business associates who are Satan's lieutenants.

Nobody makes over $250k without an unspoken "sell your soul" contract. If you make more than $10 million per year in the USA, you are a bona fide devil loyalist. You have to be. They don't give that kind of money to people for them to expose the devil's plan.

I might be willing to sell my soul for that kind of money. Do it for a year and then just be done. I am fortunate to be in a higher bracket but definitely not multiple six figures! Let alone seven! Even though I made the company multiple millions USD in sales this year. I don't work on commission. I made a low base salary. Nothing more.

One of a thousand reasons I had to quit. More important the profit margins in the medical industry are absolutely disgusting. It should be illegal. It is absolutely unethical.

 

[Sleeper System]

I can only imagine how liberating that must feel to quit your job and not give them the satisfaction of laying you off.
Yes, you are very lucky to hold an advanced degree and be in the position you are in but you also did earn it by putting in the time.
You're blessed by the gods compared to me. Only highschool. No College. Started at a retail job minimum wage and never left.
Still at my first job 12 years later. Came close to being fired once in all that time so I guess I was lucky. I hate it. But I have to survive somehow.

I wish I could quit and find something better but I guess even though I hate it, for me, it's thoughtless work. I can do it in a coma if I had to.
So Im complacent. On top of dealing with depression and not even wanting to be alive, it's hard to find motivation to try at anything anymore.

I hope you CAB instead of CTB. (Catch a break lmao I just invented that term on the spot) Good luck bro.

 

[ScubaCTB]

I might be willing to sell my soul for that kind of money. Do it for a year and then just be done.

You cannot rent out your soul for a year. You either sell it permanently or you don't. All the child cast from the 1980s show "Diff'rent Strokes" and more recently Amanda Bynes, are prime examples. You either end up dead at a young age, or have a dead soul for the rest of your life, while the blood money dries up. You speak of the medical industry. Most people working in it make a lot of money and had to sell their souls. Look at the cancer industry just as one example. Nothing but torture for profit.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Obviously the best you can do! I wouldn't sell myself either for a fucking job that doesn't make happy. I prefer CTB to becoming a wage slave in any case.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I know that feeling. Maybe the most relieved I've ever felt in life was when I quit a Head of Department role. I actually felt human again! Of course, long-term, it's all gone to shit pretty much but- even knowing that, I likely would have still made the same decision. It's no way to live to be constantly worrying about work. I hope you find something more relaxed.

 

[foreverfalling]

Congratulations on finding your peace and freedom. I wish I could do so too. Today I spent all day staring at a computer screen wishing I could die so I wouldn't have to worry about my job performance or whatever it is they want from me. If you still have a soul, they'll find a way to take it from you.