I've quit 3 jobs in my life.
The first was a web design company. I'd gotten kicked out of the first university I went to (long story, terrible) and decided to just go into working. I found a job paying decently as a web designer, but the boss was a dick and was constantly looking over my shoulder. I hated it. So I quit and decided to go back to college. Got a degree in cinema production. Thanks to that jerk for giving me the motivation to give school a 2nd chance.
The second one was Cisco. Paid bank, working help center, free food and snacks all day long, all in-house stuff so no irate customers from the field. Not a bad setup. But A) I didn't want to do it and B) drug testing. No way. I'm not gonna get into drug use here, but I am absolutely not okay with any company going through my urine to see what I do in my free time. That's a privacy thing. Wound up getting a job back at the place I was working before (got laid off temporarily) a week later, making more money.
My first job after I graduated college w/ my degree was as an intern at a nonprofit in San Francisco. I was doing video production, and the guy who hired me was their media consultant, handling their distribution. He had also started his own media distribution company (shooting their own content) and invited me to come on board there as well. But he was an ass and treated me like crap, kept changing the terms of our "contract" while we were waiting for funding so that I would be paid. So I told him to stuff it and went back to my nonprofit where he was still media consultant.
Turned out he was talking smack about me to the Marketing VP (the boss of me and him) trying to get me fired, so that the entire media department would be contracted out to his new company. Well, right around that time they d umped 2 month's work on me and I almost freaked out. This hot Japanese girl there (who had graduated from NYU with a film degree herself some years ago) gave me some crucial advice about organisation and I managed to turn around that work in 2 weeks. The Marketing VP decided to keep me and the media consultant left with his business. The girl later approached me about a promo video (i had a week) before the annual dinner, and she and I turned it around, knocked everyone's socks off, and they offered me a contract, bumped up my pay, and made me director of the whole department. Also, I asked the girl out and we just celebrated our first year together
Now I get to set my own hours, and have networked with many other nonprofits, who I do videos for. We've just launched our own production company and working on building enough clients that we can just start working from home. It will probably take us another year or two, but there you go.
Each time I've quit a company I've had to tighten my belt and just 'get by' for a little while, but every time it's worked out for the better. Quitting a job drove me back to college, led me to a great woman and my own company. But each time it required jumping into the unknown, taking a big risk and making a sacrifice. But if you're not happy, it's absolutely worth it to take that chance. Life is way too short to let yourself stagnate and if you do, you'll find time goes by so fast that you'll wonder what happened to yourself.
The first was a web design company. I'd gotten kicked out of the first university I went to (long story, terrible) and decided to just go into working. I found a job paying decently as a web designer, but the boss was a dick and was constantly looking over my shoulder. I hated it. So I quit and decided to go back to college. Got a degree in cinema production. Thanks to that jerk for giving me the motivation to give school a 2nd chance.
The second one was Cisco. Paid bank, working help center, free food and snacks all day long, all in-house stuff so no irate customers from the field. Not a bad setup. But A) I didn't want to do it and B) drug testing. No way. I'm not gonna get into drug use here, but I am absolutely not okay with any company going through my urine to see what I do in my free time. That's a privacy thing. Wound up getting a job back at the place I was working before (got laid off temporarily) a week later, making more money.
My first job after I graduated college w/ my degree was as an intern at a nonprofit in San Francisco. I was doing video production, and the guy who hired me was their media consultant, handling their distribution. He had also started his own media distribution company (shooting their own content) and invited me to come on board there as well. But he was an ass and treated me like crap, kept changing the terms of our "contract" while we were waiting for funding so that I would be paid. So I told him to stuff it and went back to my nonprofit where he was still media consultant.
Turned out he was talking smack about me to the Marketing VP (the boss of me and him) trying to get me fired, so that the entire media department would be contracted out to his new company. Well, right around that time they d umped 2 month's work on me and I almost freaked out. This hot Japanese girl there (who had graduated from NYU with a film degree herself some years ago) gave me some crucial advice about organisation and I managed to turn around that work in 2 weeks. The Marketing VP decided to keep me and the media consultant left with his business. The girl later approached me about a promo video (i had a week) before the annual dinner, and she and I turned it around, knocked everyone's socks off, and they offered me a contract, bumped up my pay, and made me director of the whole department. Also, I asked the girl out and we just celebrated our first year together
Now I get to set my own hours, and have networked with many other nonprofits, who I do videos for. We've just launched our own production company and working on building enough clients that we can just start working from home. It will probably take us another year or two, but there you go.
Each time I've quit a company I've had to tighten my belt and just 'get by' for a little while, but every time it's worked out for the better. Quitting a job drove me back to college, led me to a great woman and my own company. But each time it required jumping into the unknown, taking a big risk and making a sacrifice. But if you're not happy, it's absolutely worth it to take that chance. Life is way too short to let yourself stagnate and if you do, you'll find time goes by so fast that you'll wonder what happened to yourself.
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