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Originally Posted by Nicholls  What if you don't like what you are doing now, but you see it as a necessary step to complete before you move on to something you really do enjoy doing? Or are you just deluding yourself that the end result will be good enough to justify the means? |
Blanket advice like "If you don't like your current job, quit, now." doesn't fly in my books. And not from the point of view of financial security and having to go through pain afterwords before finding what you love to do, but because running away from problems is hardly ever a solution.
Nobody just "appears" in a crappy job with a crappy boss and crappy co-workers by some miracle. We end up in the situations we're in by the choices, decisions, beliefs, thoughts and values we hold. Your current life is the RESULT of the sum of all of those. Quitting your job is treating the symptom, and it won't last. The only conscious, long term solution I see is to treat the CAUSE not the symptom.
It's like popping advils on a daily basis for the headache's you have, instead of digging deeper to realize that the diet soda which contains aspertame is causing your headaches. It's the "quick fix", not the solution.
I'd recommend you work on personal development, devise a plan to get out of your job into what you do enjoy doing, put it into action and if necessary set a deadline of yourself to complete the transition so that you're not deluding yourself. However, just quitting TODAY under all circumstances does not sound like sound advice to me. That's just my opinion though. Ultimately, I say listen to your intuition. It always knows best.