Yes, you need to quit right now

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The article is about why you should not endure work, because of which you wake up unhappy every morning.

James Altucher, an American businessman and talented author, believes that we are entering a new era - an era of free self-realization, where our success depends only on us. In this new era, no one can tell us how much an hour of our work costs, by what rules we should write articles or make films. Thanks to the Internet, we develop and supplement our personality every day, we open ourselves up on social networks every day, nothing limits us, no one forces us to follow generally accepted development standards. The author's position is quite radical, but we found it interesting.

James himself recalls that on weekday mornings he always woke up in a depressed state. I was lying and could not bring myself to get out of bed. And the cat that stared at him through the window seemed to him much more alive than he himself. Moreover, James liked the work itself. I didn’t like the way the approach to it was organized: a fixed working day, a fixed salary, and so on.

Here are some reasons why, according to the author's concept, you should quit your job without regret.

Security and stability

Previously, in order to achieve success, one had to go through a series of certain stages of career growth. First you need to work as an errand boy, then grow to an assistant, and so on. There was a certain stability in it, security, it was like a neat white fence around the front garden. In fact, this mythical stability subdued our will. This fence did not protect, but prevented us from getting out of the delineated territory. But now other times have come and there is no longer any fence, if we ourselves do not want to protect ourselves with it. In addition, there are no guarantees that someone else will not take our place in the near future - millions of people would dream of getting to your position, to your prison, if they had such an opportunity.

Your boss

Most people dislike their boss. In general, we most often enter into relationships with others, guided by the wrong message, and then we suffer. I was too young. I didn't really know what I wanted. I was carried away by the girl, but she did not reciprocate. As a result, I am unhappy. Such relationships must be interrupted in order to stop being unhappy and open up to something new. This is why half of all weddings end in divorce. That's why you need to quit your job.

Your colleagues

Look closely at the people around you. Do you really want to spend most of your life with them? You will communicate with them more often than with your own children.

Fear

Many people do not quit their unloved jobs simply because they are afraid of not finding another. Of course, if you just walk into your boss’s office, spit on his desk and proudly slam the door, it’s very likely that your fears will come true. You need to carefully prepare for leaving, tune in, weigh all the pros and cons, see the alternative: what you really would like to do. And there is no need to be afraid of new beginnings, even if it is a startup.

The actual work

Most people don't like their job. Here a person studies for several years at the university, receives a diploma, and then realizes that he made a mistake in choosing a profession. He became a certified specialist in a field of development in which he is not interested. He torments himself with doubts, feels guilty for an incomprehensible reason. And here we move on to the next point.

The situation is getting worse

You get depressed for no specific reason. A feeling of constant dissatisfaction comes: as if your life is not going at all the way it was intended. Something went wrong. You start looking for salvation in conversations about politics, discuss other people's debts and bonuses, start an office romance. Then psychological experiences develop into physical sores. And it only gets worse over time. Now imagine how, upon retirement, you say: "Those were the worst 40 years of my life." Like?

Work kills your personality

You do the same things day in and day out. Behind this mechanical fuss, you lose the ability to create something creative on your own. Of course, someone is lucky, someone goes to the office with joy. But most of us cannot boast of mutual love with our work.

James Altuscher's article has two additional points. The fact that many continue to work to pay for the education of their children, and that a powerful factor keeping us at work, albeit unloved, is buying our own home. James believes that these incentives are losing their relevance in our time, and supports his opinion with materials on this topic: here and here.

The author of this text has drastically changed something in his life more than once and did not regret it. Its message is simple: do not be afraid to take risks and stay at the bottom of the trough. Be afraid to sit around your trough all your life and do nothing to start a better life.