8 Good Reasons to Quit Your JOB

1. If I will need to work my arse off, I’d rather do it for something that I own: I firmly believe that hard work is the foundation of success. Even if you consider supposed geniuses like great musicians or writers, history shows that behind each and every one of them there was an incredible amount of hard work. There is no easy way out and there are no shortcuts. So, if that is the case, it is clear that I will need to work damn hard no matter what I choose to do in life. Why not work that hard for my own self then?

2. Should you hit the jackpot with an idea, its your company that will collect most of the profits: Most people think that working for an organization is less risky than having your own business. The reasoning is right to a certain extent. After all, a standard job offers a secure pay check at the end of the month. This means that your income has a lower boundary, it will not go below a certain level no matter what. The problem, however, is that this security comes at the expense of limited earning potential. This means that your income will also have an upper boundary. It will not go above a certain level no matter what. Should you come up with a brilliant idea that generate millions for your company, it is unlikely that you will share the profits. Funny way to QUIT YOUR JOB

3. Companies pay you for your time, not for the value you create: I confess I have never understood the logic behind hourly wages. People’s salary should be based on the value they bring to the company on not on the number of hours they work weekly or monthly. Some organizations offer performance based retributions, that is a beginning but it is not enough. Think about a book. You are willing to pay a certain price for that book because you will get some value out of it right? Now, it does not matter if the writer took 10, 5 or 2 years to write the book. The price you are willing to pay is still the same and proportional to the value the book has to you.

4. Hierarchy and politics? No Thanks: Large organizations tend to be hierarchical and there is nothing you can do about it. People are classified according to their rank or seniority rather than by the quality of their ideas or by their drive. Sometime ago I was trying to implement the first internal blog for my division. The first thing I did was to call directly the HQ guy who was responsible for the communications platform, and he assured me that it would take no longer than 1 week to set the blog up. Guess what, after a couple of days I received a call from the Communications manager from our division, she wanted to “explain to me the rules of the game”(!). Basically she told me that all the communications related requests needed to pass through her no matter what, and she would therefore take charge of the blog set up. Two months after that call my division was still waiting for the blog.

5. I want to work on my own terms: Some time ago, more specifically under the industrial age, it probably made sense to get people grouped together in a single location, for a specific time span, all wearing a standard uniform. Do the same rules apply to the information age, though? I do not think so. If someday my company will grow so that I will need to hire people all I will tell them is: “Look, I don’t care if you work at 4 pm or in the middle of the night, at home or in the office, and if you do come to the office I don’t care if you wear shorts and sandals just like I don’t care if you listen to music while you work, do as you please as long as you get the job done!”.

6. Even if you screw it up for 10 years you will still learn a lot more: Many people told me to wait a couple of years more before starting my company. They said that I still lacked the experience. Well, maybe they are right and I do lack the experience. So what? Even if I get every thing wrong for the first 10 years I will probably learn a lot more than if I had stayed inside a large corporation. When you go alone you need to take all the decisions, solve all the problems and bear all the responsibility.

7. Are you doing what you love?: Passion is difficult to fake, you are either doing what you love or you are not, there is no in-between. Suppose you just won the lottery and money is not a problem anymore. What kind of work would you still be willing to do even for free? Personally I would write articles to share my ideas and would pursue some entrepreneurial projects. The question then becomes: “Do I really need to win the lottery to start doing that?”. Hell no! Once you realize that, it becomes much easier to drop everything else and start working on things that you really love.

8. Spend More Time With Family. It’s kind of sad but the only time most people spend time family other then immediate family is at a funeral. I wish more Americans had more time on there hands to spend time with the people the love not the people they work with.

Few More Great Reasons

 Reasons to quit your job

 In the Interest of National Security

We are living in a new world of fear and terror. Everything has changed. Daily updates to the Terror Alert Level reveal an ever-present danger. To help facilitate the tracking of all citizens, the forced identification using the I-9 form that allows every red blooded American citizen to work would be invaluable in the service of national security. Terrorist would be hard pressed to reacquire legitimate jobs when faced with the daunting task of producing identification after Quit Your Job Day.

 For the Children

Every year children are born in alarming numbers. Without the “Young Upwardly-Mobile Persons” (Yuppies) creating a necessary vacuum in the lower level jobs, hundreds, if not thousands, of children might be born without the hope of an entry level job upon graduation. Clearly the effects of Quit Your Job Day would help millions of children achieve their pre-natal goals of a rewarding career, at least until the following year, when they, too, are naturally expected to quit.

 Personal Financial Growth

Most people are underpaid from the moment they start their first job. The reason for this is because an updated resume would show their most recent work experience, increasing their value in the marketplace. With very few exceptions, the normal career path is one of uninterrupted salary growth, with the highest increases occurring shortly after being hired at a new job. Think of Quit Your Job Day as accelerating the normal Darwinistic cycle of salary fitness for your personal career species.

 The National Economy

It’s no secret that our national economy is in dire straights. Not since The Great Depression have we heard such upbeat predictions from our national leaders, a sure sign that we are headed in the wrong direction. You may be asking yourself “But what can one person do?” The answer is simple: quit your job. In market economics there are two driving forces. These are supply and demand. If there was a coordinated mass termination, there would be an immediate effect on the employment marketplace. Employers, lacking a substantial measure of their workforce, would be forced to pay higher wages to attract employees. Think of it as ad-hoc collective bargaining in a non-deterministic free market. Or just think about how screwed your boss would be when everyone quit at once. In short, everyone who participates is likely to get a raise, and with no employees whatsoever, the raise would naturally burst through the ceiling.

 Defectors get the Shaft

Quit your job. Everybody’s doing it. Well, everyone except you. Imagine, for a moment, that Quit Your Job Day has arrived. The vast majority of your coworkers, being intelligent, emancipated, self-directed individualists, quit en masse. Your boss, desperate to maintain his (or, less likely, her) middle management status, will pile an ungodly workload upon the remaining staff members. You, being the brightest of those who remained, might receive a ceremonial title such as “office manager”, but, much like a field promotion to Captain in The Charge of the Light Brigade, it will prove nothing more than a harbinger of doom. Soon new people will be hired. Their higher salaries will only aggravate you and in time your employee of the month awards will seem pale comfort for the days and weeks of extra work you were forced to undertake for no real compensation. We think you should simply quit your job with the rest of us.

For Great Justice

It is not to be forgotten that all your jobs are belong to us, and having no chance to survive, make your time