I get to quit my Job

[Tsunamii]

Finally I can quite my job. I have been looking for a new position for 6 months and now have one Nothing better then quitting a Job on your terms. I can't say anything here until tomorrow so I had to say it somewhere.

 

[mulester7]

Finally I can quite my job. I have been looking for a new position for 6 months and now have one Nothing better then quitting a Job on your terms. I can't say anything here until tomorrow so I had to say it somewhere.

.....that's great, Tsunamii....finally, some good news this week.....

 

[Duffinator]

Finally I can quite my job. I have been looking for a new position for 6 months and now have one Nothing better then quitting a Job on your terms. I can't say anything here until tomorrow so I had to say it somewhere.

I can think of a few things better but if you are leaving your job it's a LOT better leaving on your own terms. New challenges are always a nice change of pace. Good luck with the new job. What type of work are you in?

 

[j_garcia]

I've done it twice, one good, one not so good. Once because I got a MUCH better offer at another company and another because I got a little worse of an offer to work with friends at a start-up which eventually went under. Really is a weird thing to actually quit a job and do it on your own terms. Congrats.

 

[Tomorrow]

Congrats, Tsunamii!

That's a grrrreat feeling. I got to do it once or twice and had a nice, big, fat smile on my face for weeks...sorta the short-timers grin.---->

What do you do for work?

 

[gellor]

Chicklet for quitting. Now if only my lucky lottery ticket comes in.......

 

[Tsunamii]

MMM lottery, ive got to get my Big Game ticket tonight its a big one...
Deffinator, I am in IT, im going into a NOC position with a networking company. Only 3 min from my house, with the gas prices its a great thing.

 

[claudermilk]

Congrats. You've gotta love it when you get to do it on your own terms. Even better when they get the look when you tell them.

 

[gene]

Tommorow will be my 1 year anniversary of leaving my cube farm to pursue the truth in audio full time! I can't tell you how liberating it was. Some folks jump out of a plane, or shoot up drugs to get a rush. Those things don't do anything for me. Leaving a place on excellent terms you hate and worked at for so long, is simply the best high I ever experienced. What is even more enthralling is they didn't even know I had a business on the side and after the fact they kept calling me back to do contract work at 3x my hourly rate, but I declined each time!

Congrats on leaving. People shouldn't work jobs that make their lives unhappy. I realize everyone needs to make a living, but its so much better when you can work in an environment that you feel comfortable in, and you love what you are doing. I can personally say, I have never been happier, despite the fact I am usually too darn busy and working more hours now then I did working for someone else.

 

[Tomorrow]

Tommorow will be my 1 year anniversary of leaving my cube farm to pursue the truth in audio full time! I can't tell you how liberating it was. Some folks jump out of a plane, or shoot up drugs to get a rush. Those things don't do anything for me. Leaving a place on excellent terms you hate and worked at for so long, is simply the best high I ever experienced. What is even more enthralling is they didn't even know I had a business on the side and after the fact they kept calling me back to do contract work at 3x my hourly rate, but I declined each time!

Congrats on leaving. People shouldn't work jobs that make their lives unhappy. I realize everyone needs to make a living, but its so much better when you can work in an environment that you feel comfortable in, and you love what you are doing. I can personally say, I have never been happier, despite the fact I am usually too darn busy and working more hours now then I did working for someone else.

Gene,

I don't mean to throw a cloud over this thread...leaving on one's own terms is damn sensual, almost. But in your case, I'd like to include one caveat. (Uh, alandamp...that sorta means one conditional warning...lol j/k as you know .) I did exactly the same thing you did, Gene, only in a different line of work. But you know how startup businesses are....long on hours, short on dough. I skipped health insurance, thinking at the age of 44 it was not particularly necessary. Eight months into my new found career, I had a massive coronary. I actually died on my wife's lap on the way to the hospital. Five+ minutes of anoxia, 20+ defibrillations, 4 days of coma later, I survived all the odds (to make a real long story short). This little 'event' cost us everything we owned because of my lack of medical insurance coverage. The hospital stay alone was >$1/4 mil. (And that was a long time ago...prices now are nuts. It was quite a climb outta that hole!)

The moral....I'm so glad you guys are doing your thing....but especially you self-employed peeps, please carry medical coverage.

Good cheer.

 

[Bryguy]

Congrats Tsunamii. I did it five years ago and still can't be any happier, that is unless I hit the Big Game. I left a job on good terms that I hated for years (gov't security) to start a whole new career field. I still don't dread going to work, only getting up in the morning. Too many late hours on this forum.

Bryguy.

 

[gene]

The moral....I'm so glad you guys are doing your thing....but especially you self-employed peeps, please carry medical coverage.

Man that is some incredible story. I am glad it had a reasonably happy ending considering the odds. I hear you about health insurance. Ever since I have been self employeed I learned just how hard and how expensive it is to get decent health care in this country. I think it will eventually be easier in Iraq to get affordable health care than it will in the USA.

 

[Bryguy]

Health insurance in Iraq is called a 7.62, just kidding. Don't skimp on the med insurance even though the costs are high. This past spring I had a nasty and rare fungal infection on the palm of my hand that had to be surgicaly removed and then just last month I had gotten some kind of staph infection from an infected mosquito bite. I lost 10 pounds on that one in a week. Good news is now my pants fit.

Bryguy

 

[Bryguy]

Oh, no THAT did not cause the palm infection!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tomorrow]

Oh, no THAT did not cause the palm infection!!!!!!!!!

....you sure?

 

[Sheep]

whoa...

rjbudz, that is truely amazing.

My story isn't that epic, but its decent enough.

Ever since summer of grade nine(I Graduated this year) I have been working in a semi-trailer shop. I was the Trailer washer for the first 2 years, and helped out around the shop tiddying and assisting the mechanics. Last year I did alot of landscaping, cleaning up blackberry bushes long the property line, and more in shop cleaning and organizing. This year, I was on the washpad, my home, and was pulled to assist the paintshop because they were 20 or so projects behind. I have done work in there cleaning up as I am not able or qualified to do anything else, and they assign me to work ON projects. Usually people would say "wow, what I great opportunity" but this is high priced show trailers and they are in a rush. Every thing I did had to be shown to me, and it was not going smoothly. All the painters and bodymen were getting frustrated fixing my every mistake. The guy who tooked over my washing duties said "I like working in the paint shop" he thought it was easy, and new what he was doing. After gathering this information I decided to voice my concern and thought I might improve the output of the paintshop. How wrong was I. They took it as a complaint, saying I was whinning about my duties, even though I have done everything for them for 4 years cept for siting on my buttox in an Air conditioned office. Latter on that day I was called to see the "boss" and he said, "If you don't wanna work in the paint shop, you can't work anywhere else as there is no other jobs for you." I said" Fine I will take my services elsewhere." That was a week ago, and I'm now looking for a labour job to fund my car, HT, and schooling.


sheep

 

[Tomorrow]

My story isn't that epic, but its decent enough.

That was a week ago, and I'm now looking for a labour job to fund my car, HT, and schooling.


sheep

ARG, Sheep! I hope you find something soon. Money worries are THE pits...ranking right there after health and just ahead of women. It sounds like you have the dedication to get a decent job soon.

Much good luck with your search. Keep at it.

 

[Tomorrow]

Man that is some incredible story. I am glad it had a reasonably happy ending considering the odds.

Yeah, life's pitcher threw me a real curveball with that one. It left me with a 1.5 cm. X 8 cm. aneurysm on my heart. Ouch!! I at least avoided the transplantation they wanted to do on me. BUT, apparently I was saved to suffer not one, but TWO kinds of cancer...so I also got a knuckleball for "Steeee-rike TWOOOOooooooo!" (Some guys have all the luck.) So far, so good, by the way with the real bad one (Stage IV squamous cell in the neck). I have survived the surgery and radiation treatment for almost two years, now!! The docs removed a chicken egg sized tumor from my neck's right side lymph glands. "Gee, I feel ten pounds lighter, doc. T'anx!"

Well I'll tell ya boys, I'm not anxious to see if the next pitch is a screwball. I'm still sittin' on a fastball.

Good cheer.

 

[Tomorrow]

Man that is some incredible story. I am glad it had a reasonably happy ending considering the odds..

Oh, one (now, after-the-fact) funny sidebar on this event...

We all laugh and wink about WAF. I'll tell you who the boss is my marriage. When my wife was breaking the sound barrier getting me to the hospital, and my heart was fibrillating...just about to give up, then did...I was no longer getting oxygen to my brain. I was about to pass out...the world was growing dim and I told her I was going to pass out. She said..."NO YOU'RE NOT! I don't know how to get to the hospital!" I hung on long enough to give her directions and tell her which off-ramp to take. Had I not, I would not be here joking about this event with you all wonderful people.

LMAO..."You ain't dyin' till I say you can!" So sayeth MY boss.

Post script...in the "TIMING IS EVERYTHING" arena...I had this heart attack on Father's Day...a Sunday. The very next day they closed the off-ramp my wife had to take to the hospital...for two weeks for repairs. I was basically dead for 5 minutes. If she had to take the detour...well...that woulda been a huge bummer for one rjbudz.

 

[mulester7]

.....Sheep, you take a deep breath and listen to uncle mule now....ok, you through breathin' and ready?....listen, I had NO idea that you were like 18....you have handled yourself at this site above and beyond any such conception in my view.....

.....you mentioned your car getting creamed and your Dad alerting you to that, but it didn't hit me that you were that young and living at home until this post....that you're living at home during this time of trial is a very good thing....too many young guys can't wait to get out and go WILD away from good ole' Mom and Dad, and that, too many times, brings TROUBLE for them, and they limp back home, totally broke, to regroup where they should have stayed to start with....I think it's really not that much different between single guys and single girls as to whether they are better off staying with Mom and Dad until they find that significant other they want to hook up with....enjoy this time you can spend with your parents as they gladly stand behind you and help take pressure off you as you search for your next employment situation....you will cherish this time spent with them in years to come, trust me....I have no doubt you will do your part and get out EARLY in the day and search....remember, early to bed and early to rise, looks mighty good in an employer's eyes....feel free to use me as a reference on your applications....just write down "mule from Arkinsaw", they know me....I say again, you're a good man, Sheep, and it will work out fine considering you're GOING to do your part, I'm convinced.....