[Bitsy]

I just read Aspiring to Clarity's thread about quitting her job and I've read about several other people on Steve's site quitting their jobs. I just very ungracefully quit my translating job of 10 years as the final act of a complete emotional meltdown at the end of March.

Seeker5 jokingly suggested a "Job Quitters'" club. I decided to start this thread so that those of us who got fed up with the tedium of the jobs we hate and have already taken the leap out into uncertainty to try to find a job that fits who we are could keep others on the site updated as to our progress.

If anyone is on the fence about quitting their job like we did, maybe you could watch the thread and see if we end up back where we started in another tedious job we hate, or if we find what we're looking for.

If you have quit your job, please post about it here, and post your progress, tell us what you are doing, intending or working on!

My update:
I quit my job, as I mentioned, at the end of March in the midst of a total breakdown and before I consider taking on another job or making a committment to any long-term thing, including what country to live in, I am doing intensive therapy for some months with the goal of getting my past to stop interfering with my present.

I am also...very unagressively pursuing during this time, more as a hobby and for my enjoyment, a weblog/website. It will be a place where I can freely express myself and aspire to be the me I have always wanted to be, but that had always got stifled by all the pain.


[I posted this under "Character and Contribution," even though it deals with career, because I think those of us who quit our jobs are actually looking for a career in which we can live our values, find expression for our purpose, make a difference, change the world, etc., and earn a living from it as well.]