Quit your job, and you face pressures on fiscal, emotional, and family levels. You are threatening the wellbeing and stability of other people. Do not quit your job, and you break down a little inside every single minute of the day.
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
Some bosses go beyond incompetent boobs to actual evil. Run, don't walk. Run for your life. Even if you are paid well, you did not sign on for constant abuse.
3. Evil Corporation
When companies ruin communities and the Earth when chasing profits that end up in New York or Los Angeles, it could be a sign of evil. Quit your job and be part of the solution and not the problem.
4. Evil Coworkers
At times, through no flaw of your own, you just bring out Biblical evil in other people. Don't tolerate it.
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
Few companies pamper their employees like Google or Amazon. Most treat their workers like chattel. Dump it.
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
A fine line exists between mastering your job and becoming too "comfortable" or complacent. In any job, there should be a certain amount of work that pushes you to new levels. So if you're bored to tears, quit your job, and move on, instead of sulking or becoming bitter.
9. Micromanaging
Companies compete for talent then micromanage the innovation out of them. Look elsewhere.
10. No Room for Advancement
Family business. Company dying. Outsourcing overseas. There could be hundreds of reasons for no advancement in a company.
11. Major Change in Your Life
Your life situation has changed in a big way. Perhaps you have gotten married or had a baby, and the salary no longer meets your needs. Quit your job and move on to better opportunities to support your family.
12. Company Looks Financially Vulnerable
If you're hearing reports of bankruptcy or impending layoffs, it may be time to check out what other options are available.
13. Better Opportunity Elsewhere
Loyalty was a reality years ago when opportunities abounded and companies were loyal to their employees. Ford employees did not quit their jobs to work for GM.
14. Bad Workplace Romance
Women often fall into this trap. If an office romance has turned sour, whether with a boss or coworker, do you really want to see that guy's ugly mug every day.
15. Hate Going to Work
When every minute of your commute brings out anxiety, quit your job.
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 Boss Damaged Beyond Repair (PONR)
If your bad relationship with your supervisor has reached the point of no return, quit your job.
21. Dislike Your Corporate Culture
The culture must match your needs, whether for money or recognition or free vacations.
22. Just Don't Enjoy Your Work
When the fun stops - for whatever reason - find a new employer.
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
You may have been the evil coworker at your current company. Be honest.
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. Crush your job before it kills you.
28. Need Additional Responsibility
You've explored current and potential options, and they are limited or non-existant. It's time to move on.
29. Just Plain Hate Your Job
Hating your job and hating going to work are different yet related. Do you really need 50 other reasons?
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
Obviously, if you need to move, your company may not be in the new location. Even if it is, you may choose to sever your relationship anyway.
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
Let someone else take the physical risks. Use your brain and computer to make a living.
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 Workplace
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
Some crave recognition. If you are one of these employees and you are not getting what you need, it's time to change jobs.
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
As gas prices rise, the long commutes are harder and harder to finance. When you add your commuting time to your hours on the job, you may find your salary after taxes to be much less than you anticipated.
43. No Compensation for Ideas That Help the Company
The old company suggestion box may not hang on the wall any longer, but smart companies use chat or team meetings to discover changes that will enhance the bottom line. Notice I did not say changes that enhance the employee experience.
44. Corporate Politics
Where office politics should guide you to quit your job is if it interferes with your ability to do your job, or if you are not allowed to play the game.
45. No Flexibility
Many jobs - security, call centers, factories - are time driven. Human thought and ingenuinity not needed.
46. Can't Feel the 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
If you were to quit your job today, would you have any regrets about tasks undone or promises unmet? If not, move on.
49. Eliminate Stuff
By cutting down or eliminating houses, cars, pools, wardrobes, and other unnecessary expenses, you may be able to eliminate the need for a job altogether. I view a house as an anchor, not security.
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
Only since the industrial revolution has the notion of a job taken hold. Systems break work down into smaller and smaller mind-numbing units.
To crush your job, you need to start with the correct mind-set and conclude with a straightforward system to get you started on the road to an e-commerce income that will set you free.
~ Charles Lamm
Burn Down the Freaking Mission - http://burndownthefreakingmission.com
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