Quitting while you're ahead....

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Do you think it's a good strategy? When it comes to jobs?

For ahead let's say I'm ahead in the sense of not being totally bitter and not completely hating my job.

Problem is I have no other major source of income. I am working on that but it still might be a few months till I leave at this rate.

How bad is it to become a "I hate my job" person for a few months, really worry about getting stuck in a rut.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 25 February 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Yes I do think it is a good strategy, especially when you can see the downslope spread out below you. What's hard is extricating yourself enough mentally to successfully organize a soft landing for yourself when you do quit. I'm sorry things aren't going well, Ronan.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I've done it once, and things worked out sort of okay. Mostly, I don't jump unless I know there's a net below. My wife has always been a "leap, and the net will appear" type of person, but maybe she can afford to be, married to a nervous plan-things-out freak like me.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah if there's a good side it's that I am using my freetime more efficiently, just would love to have the net there to not feel beholden to a job that is pissing me off no end, and making me feel like I'm wasting my time/life.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Mine is pretty good right now, but I can see the downturn a few month down the line and could really do with getting out before it happens. Avoiding complacency and actually doing that is a different thing altogether, mind. I totally failed to do that with my last job and spent a year of simmering resentment there.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 26 February 2006 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Tell us again what you're doing these days, Ronan? Last I remember you were working in UO in Temple Bar. Or maybe that was just your weekends.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 26 February 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

i don't know hell about jobs, but quitting while you're ahead is the secret to drinking. gotta drink just enough to not give a fuck, before the scales tip and you're angry or sad or in love or something.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:25 (fifteen years ago)

but when you just don't care about anything, that's the sweet spot.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:32 (fifteen years ago)

^totally with that and the main reason i drink a fuck of a lot of shandy

― NI, Sunday, 20 March 2011 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

Trying to relearn this art, its a precarious balance!

― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Monday, 21 March 2011 10:49 (fourteen years ago)

Don't jump, there really isn't a net below. I found that out the hard way.

― Your Success Model Has Worked For You So Do Get On With Your Life (u s steel), Monday, 21 March 2011 12:36 (fourteen years ago)

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