CNN - It's hard to quit a job, especially these days. It takes courage to realize that your current position just isn't for you, then tender your resignation and head back into an unstable job market.
Yet sometimes, things happen that make it a whole lot easier to leave. Whether it's a ridiculous outburst from your crazy boss, the realization that you have to persuade yourself to get out of your car and go into your office each morning, or just another sleepless night worrying about work -- sometimes, we just have those "Aha!" moments and we suddenly know we've been pushed over the edge and there's no turning back. It's quittin' time.
And the article goes on to list a few people's scenarios surrounding their decision to quit. To no one's surprise CNN only published the stories where the subject ended up happier in the end because it was "the best decision they ever made." But I have to wonder, how many submissions did they receive were along the lines of;
"I was really bored in my job, because of the economy and lack of turnover I felt like I was going nowhere and decided it was time for a change. Upon quitting I realized that maybe starting a job search in the middle of a great recession was a terrible idea. I was jobless for 6 months before taking this job at McDonalds making a fraction of what I made before and serving assholes from my former job McRibs on their lunch break as they laugh at the string of decisions I made."
I assume they received more e-mails like that than any others, why show the rosy side of quitting? Because they're a liberal slanted media outlet and Liberals want you to think its always roses and sunshine, if you don't feel like doing something or it gets too hard then just quit, something good will come along. Bullshit. I rarely lash out at CNN but their Career advice articles are constantly full of optimistic ramblings designed to blow smoke up your ass and get you to ignore the realities around you. A little realism wouldn't hurt every now and then (for the record the woman in the story that had a stapler thrown at her head was the only one who had just cause to up and quit, that shit hurts, my stapler once fell off my top shelf and cracked me in the forehead).
