Quit Your Job Now - 51 Reasons to Quit Your Post According to the Paul Simon song, there should be 50 ways to leave your lover. For a job you don't love, there has to be more. I do not accept that we were put on this Earth to work like animals, provide money for the wants of other people, or to enter into voluntary servitude.
The Challenge - 51 Reasons to Quit Your Job
1. The Pay Sucks
In a slow economy, corporations are hiring - at wages less than before 9/11. Unions are being busted and desperate people will do what they have to do to feed their families.
2. Evil Boss
No boss is perfect. If your boss is abusive or unethical, it is likely time to start looking for a new job.
3. Evil Corporation
Your company is ethically dead. The managers lie to customers about the quality of the products or when the product will ship. Maybe the company is stealing information from competitors to survive. The company knows what it is doing is wrong, and so do you.
4. Evil Coworkers
If you work among them, your financial and physical health could be at peril. Do you truly need to squander one third of your life resisting evil. Quit your job and save your soul.
5. Idiot Coworkers
With older, overqualified workers taking jobs they never thought they would have to resort to, the risk of working with short bus refugees grows daily.
6. Unfriendly Environment
Some companies like Google and Amazon.com have long recognized that providing soft benefits and perks can make a work environment more enjoyable than going home. Other major corporations are so focused on profits they forget who makes the money.
7. Inadequate Tools to Do the Job
One sign of a company in trouble is a lack of tools and supplies to do your job. Find another.
8. Unchallenging Work
Some jobs are just too boring for humans. My first job was as a lifeguard. Sitting in a chair watching people swim at the pool is mind numbing unless some new bikini clad talent shows up.
9. Micromanaging
Companies compete for talent then micromanage the innovation out of them. Look elsewhere.
10. No Room for Advancement
If you are stuck and can’t move up - move out.
11. Major Change in Your Life
Changes at home often require changes in job scenery.
12. Company Looks Financially Vulnerable
If your manager says that everyone's job is safe, run to CareerBuilder.
13. Better Opportunity Elsewhere
When corporations will ship your job to Ireland, India, or the Philippines in a heartbeat, loyalty is dead on both sides. Act in your own best interest.
14. Bad Workplace Romance
If you find yourself in a big, workplace-relationship fiasco. it may be time to start looking for a new workplace where you'll have a clean slate. Just resolve not to repeat the same mistake.
15. Hate Going to Work
No free man or woman should hate going to work when they have a choice.
16. High When You Exit Work
When leaving work puts the first smile on you face for the day, it may be time to quit your job.
17. Don't Need the Money That Badly
If you don't need the money, find a new job or start your own Internet business. Life is too short to trade time for money you don't need.
18. Depression
Depresson is complicated, but job stress can be a big contributor.
19. Dream About Work Problems
If work problems seem into your dream time, sever the cord. Your dreams are trying to tell you something.
20. Relationship With Immediate Manager Damaged Beyond Repair (PONR)
Your relationship with your manager is damaged beyond repair. Perhaps you were untrustworthy or missed work on too many days. Whatever the reason, the position in the company is irrecoverably damaged.
21. Dislike Your Corporate Culture
Perhaps your company is egalitarian and you want the best parking spot for salesman of the month.. Equal treatment can grate for those who shine.
22. Just Don't Enjoy Your Work
You've stopped having fun at work.. No matter what changed, when you hate going to work in the morning, it's time to quit your job.
23. Company Not Totally Evil, But Ethically Challenged
Companies that are ethically challenged can turn evil in difficult time. Beware.
24. Your Own Bad Behavior at Work
Maybe you could not help it. Maybe they are too slow for your sense of humor. Get out before you turn into one of them.
25. Cost of Starting Your Own Business Near Zero
In the Internet age, you can start an affiliate marketing business online with absolutely no investment.
26. Burned Bridges
If your behavior has been so bad or your workplace so hostile you have burned your bridges, no need trying to repair what cannot be fixed. Quit your job with grace. No badmouthing. Just quit.
27. Stress Levels Are Off the Charts
Stress kills. The money cannot be worth it. Quit your job before you die.
28. Require Additional Responsibility
You are unchallenged, need more responsibility, and seek opportunities that just don't exist for you in your current organization.
29. You Absolutely Hate Your Job
For whatever reason, do you need more? Quit.
30. Difficult Workplace
Co-workers, supervisors, and a negative office environment can make your job unbearable. In fact, they can make your workplace a place where you simply don't want to be. Once you have exhausted every option, you may need to make a decision to quit your job.
31. Inconvenient Schedule
Companies use employees as pawns. They may change your schedule frequently to satisfy “the needs of the business” or send you to a remote location for weeks on end.
32. Relocation
Moving is a good cover story when the real reasons you want to quit are personal.
33. Change Career
If the job does not match your career plans, find one that does.
34. Gnawing Gut Feeling
Sometimes you know in your gut something is wrong. It might be the job, the boss, or just your place in the company. Listen to your gut.
35. Not Doing What You Love
Passion is difficult to fake. You are either doing what you love or you are not, there is no middle ground. If you won the lottery, what kind of work would you do for free?
36. Physically Dangerous Job
Some jobs are just plain dangerous. Let someone else be a deep water fisherman, logger, or high-rise steelworker.
37. Health Issues
It may not be your company’s fault, but if your health is being negatively impacted by your job, quit your job and save your health.
38. Hostile Work Environment
No man or woman should tolerate an openly hostile work environment. Not even for a day.
39. Promises When Hired Not Fulfilled
When interviewed and hired, recruiters always paid a rosy picture. When the actual job does not live up to even a minimal level of expectations based on corporate propaganda, that is reason enough to move on. The covenant has been broken.
40. No Recognition
Should you come up with a brilliant idea that generates millions for your company, it is unlikely that you will share in any of the profits. Chances are you will not even get a pat on the back.
41. Authority v. Blame
Employees are always fodder for the corporate machine. When things go right, CEOs and managers glow in the credit. When things go wrong, it’s a lazy, indolent workforce.
42. Long Commutes
Long commutes add to your stress levels and effectively eliminate free time from Monday to Friday.
43. No Compensation for Ideas That Help the Company
If you have great ideas for your business niche, quit your job and put them in place to crush your former employer (always follow any non-compete agreements).
44. Corporate Politics
Large organizations tend to be rigid and hierarchical, and there is nothing you can do about it. People are paid according to their rank or seniority rather than by the quality of their work.
45. No Flexibility
Flexible jobs do not require you to trade time for money. Find one, or create it yourself.
46. No Love
People are being asked to do more and more for crappy pay. If not, ten unemployed men and women are lining up to replace you.
47. No Security
Safety does not exist outside of the individual. Corporations will not provide it. Safety such as it exists, comes from knowledge and skill and a willingness to do whatever it takes to protect yourself and your family.
48. No Regrets
Where are the regrets? If you quit your job, or 10 years later, if you don't.
49. Eliminate Stuff
This is where the Buddists have us beat. Let go of your attachments. It's much easier to quit your job if you don't need it to survive.
50. You, Inc. - Do It Better
If you are going to work like a dog, you might as well be as free as an eagle and work for yourself. Except for manufacturing, most business can be down by an individual with outsourcing of tasks others can do better.
51. Sovereign Individual
A sovereign individual is one who can wake up in the morning and decide how to shape that day - completely free of outside human interference.
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