But, how do you quit your JOB?

But, how do you quit your job?  This is an excellent “but” question and unfortunately, I didn’t include it in my book, Working my “BUT” off!: Reflections of a property investor.

It’s a great question.  Here are some fun answers I just can’t resist throwing out there!

1)  Go to a university and take a course of study that specializes in the exact science of how to quit your job.  Spend a fortune on tuition, graduate with honors, then go quit your job.  Then pay off your university loan.

2)  Go ask an expert.  Who’s an expert?  Well, when I had a job my co-workers were generally experts at everything.  So, maybe one of your co-workers is an expert at how to quit your job.  Ask him.  Probably want to look for a co-worker who’s been working at a JOB for at least 20 years.  They’re usually the best experts.

3)  Go see a hypnotist.  Tell her you want to quit your job.  She’ll use mind control to get you to do it.  Do this on a Friday.  Then you’ll have all weekend to dream about your new life of freedom.  Then, first thing Monday morning, go to work and quit.  Do it straight away Monday morning.  Otherwise the hypnosis may wear off and you’ll chicken out.

Now, for the real answer.  It’s so simple no one has bothered to write it down.

The How to Quit Your Job Manual

There’s no manual.

But, I suppose, there should be one.  Why not?  I mean, let’s say you really want to quit your job?  There should be a proscribed way to do it – right?  There’s a procedure for just about everything else.  Why isn’t there one for quitting your job?

Some reasons for wanting to quit …

For reasons that anyone with a job can understand, let’s say you’re fed up with your job.  Fed up with the rat-race.  Fed up with the job dissatisfaction.  Fed up with the BS.  Fed up with the mind numbing tasks.  Fed up with the company rules and regulations.  Fed up with your creativity being squashed at every turn.  Fed up with having to beg for a pay increase.  Fed up with having to beg for holiday time.  Fed up with working around unmotivated, underwhelming, underachieving co-workers;  they’ve been sapped of their creative juices too!  Fed up with going to work every morning and repeating to yourself in a loud silent scream, “GET ME OUTTA HERE!”

So, the logical conclusion is you want to quit your job.  But how?  And, that’s where the manual would come in handy.

Very Short Manual

The manual on how to quit your job would be very thin.  Three pages at most.  And, two of the pages would be the cover sheet and the backing sheet.  The page in the middle would be blank except for 3 words.  Three words stolen from the Nike advertisement.  You know them.

So, you go to your local library and pick up the “How to quit your job manual.”  You open up to page 2 and the answer is written in big black bold ink.  Three words as follows:

JUST DO IT!

But, you reply violently.  “I can’t!  You don’t understand!  I have bills to pay.  I have a family to support.  I have … I can’t!”

And, then you open up the manual again and look at the page and see those three words again.

JUST DO IT!

But, you yell louder.  “You can’t be serious?  That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.  You’re crazy!  Who in their right mind would quit a high paying job?  Especially in these economic times with the global financial crisis (GFC) and all?  No way.  You’re nuts.  I would never quit my job unless I had another one already lined up.  That’s the only way I’d quit my job.”

But those words keep staring back at you.  They don’t change.  They don’t run off the page because you’re screaming at them.  They’re fearless.  They don’t move.  They stare back at you with a steely glaze

JUST DO IT!

So, What Makes You Such an Expert?

What makes me such an expert?  What gives me the authority to say how it’s done?

Well, back in July 2009, right in the middle of the GFC (global financial crisis), I walked into work one Monday and quit my job.

I just did it.

It works.

The next day I had no job.

The world didn’t collapse.  Lightening didn’t strike.  The place I worked somehow managed without me.  The company didn’t go under.

The only thing that really changed was my life.  It became a lot better.  A lot more enjoyable.  A lot more rewarding.  A lot more challenging.  A lot more satisfying.

So, go to your nearest library and get the manual.  Open up to page two an read it repeatedly.  Good luck!