Price Tag on Quitting?

Today on MSN there is a funny headline: How much to say, 'I quit?'

Suggestions follow with the usual scary scale of 1 to 5 millions to retire in today's shaky world. But here's the funny thing. Why keep working if all you think about is retiring? And why even thinking about retiring if you actually enjoy what you do?

Last time I quit my job, I think I had about $ 7,000 in the bank. Surely there have been times when I quit with less, and others with more. It never occurred to me, though, that there was a necessary relation between quitting and "how much money" I had. Probably because I never thought about retiring either.

Retiring from what? I mean, if I'm tired of one particular job or field, I can always go exploring another. If I'm simply working too much, I can slow down and work less. If I don't feel like getting up every morning at 7 a.m. anymore, I can switch shift.

We live in a world where telecommuting, working from home, being self-employed, run your own company... have all become much easier. Why not take advantage of that? Why keep having this close- minded employee 's mentality, '9 to 5, and I shut the door, 20 or 30 years at the same job and I can finally stay home?'

Please, don't hold back and keep staying at a job you hate just because you don't have 1 to 5 millions.
Don't be prisoners of your career, particularly if it does not fit for you anymore. Have a second, third or fourth career, either you are 20 or 60 years old. Think about change as a rolling wheel of cycles.

In nature, there is birth in Spring, blooming in Summer, maturity in Fall and rest and renewal in Winter. But that's not the end. It's just cycles. Because then there is Spring again.

Don't winterize your mind muscles before time or you won't be able to give them a good start again when the next Spring will knock at your door.

There is ALWAYS a new spring in the future.

Comments

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it's not about job, it's about life... find a work that fits with your personality... a work that you can never quit because it belongs to your inner nature... sometimes that's very demanding, but it's so exciting... without some risk, there's no real life...