I Am Already Planning to Quit the Job I Just Started a Month Ago

[pax]

See my sig? Okay. August 31, 2006 is the date by which I plan to have quit the job I just started last month.

My reasoning: I already know I do not want to do this wotrk for the rest of my life. I want to go back to school or else write full-time, one or the other. I wouldn't mind continuing to do editorial work on a part-time, freelance basis, but I can't be defined by it, at least not the kind of editorial work I'm doing now (educational/technical publishing).

I don't know yet exactly what I'd go back to school for (either English/literature or philosophy/ethics, possibly gender or rhetoric and comp studies). I don't know where I'll go (a lot of that will depend on the other countdown in my sig, LOL). But I know I need out of here, and while I'm happy to bide my time, lay low, and do good work, I also know that without a deadline I might languish forever and become like my dad...twentysome years later, stuck in a job he has come to despise because he's so specialized that he can't do anything else.

Does this make sense?

 

[Adam'sbaby]

Pax, It makes sense to me. If you know you don't want to do this for the rest of your life then you shouldn't. (You'll only start hating the job. Believe me, I know how it feels.) Even though you don't know what you'll do next. I think you'll find out what you want when that time comes.

 

[Bonochick]

I wish I had the guts to go back to school. My degree sucks. There's only one thing I want to be doing, and I let being too worried about money stop me from getting the degree I really wanted.

Good luck, pax.

 

[U2democrat]

i'm all for you pax do what your little heart desires!

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

Go for it!


I'll be one of those sour people who spent her entire life in an office, so do what makes you happy, sweetie.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Sounds like you know when it's time to move on.

 

[meegannie]

I'm really envious. I wish I could do what I really want.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

I'm really envious. I wish I could do what I really want.

me too. i wish i could also figure out what it is i want to do. i'm 21, at what point am i going to figure this out? i should be graduating in two months but instead i'm doing a job i hate.

 

[indra]

me too. i wish i could also figure out what it is i want to do. i'm 21, at what point am i going to figure this out? i should be graduating in two months but instead i'm doing a job i hate.

Well, Khan, I have 20 years on you, and I still don't quite know exactly what I want to do with my life.

I do have a couple of things I'm working on that I'm really enjoying, but I'm not sure they will ever work into a full time occupation.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Well, Khan, I have 20 years on you, and I still don't quite know exactly what I want to do with my life.

I do have a couple of things I'm working on that I'm really enjoying, but I'm not sure they will ever work into a full time occupation.

yeah i know how you feel. unfortunately i'm not doing anything that i enjoy. i can't even see how i could turn any of my hobbies into a career. i like to cook but i wouldn't want to become a chef or even own a restaurant. i like to listen to music but i don't know how to play any instruments and besides, that's one career field i wouldn't want to enter.

 

[pax]

Thank you to everyone for your kind words. It makes me feel a lot better (along with imagining handing in my resignation letter, LOL).

 

[martha]

My policy has always been never be good at a job you don't like. You'll be stuck in it and miserable.

 

[pax]

My policy has always been never be good at a job you don't like. You'll be stuck in it and miserable.

I know what you mean. It's tough for me, because I have a pretty deep-seated need to be liked by authority figures, and so I want to do my work well and have my supervisors be happy with it. But at the same time, I feel, sitting here (at work) like I want to be *just* good enough at it. I'm not interested in advancing in this company, becoming a project editor or a managing editor...I just want to go home at 4:45 and be done with it.

One of my old profs took 2 years off and worked in between her undergrad and her Ph.D., and that's what I'm finding myself drawn to...which is funny, because I started college wanting to do that, but when I finished I wasn't sure. My former profs will be really pleased if I go back to school (I've stayed in touch with many of them).

 

[meegannie]

One of my old profs took 2 years off and worked in between her undergrad and her Ph.D., and that's what I'm finding myself drawn to...which is funny, because I started college wanting to do that, but when I finished I wasn't sure. My former profs will be really pleased if I go back to school (I've stayed in touch with many of them).

I took two years off between my undergrad and postgraduate degrees. A lot of unversities prefer applicants who've taken a year or more out to work to those who are applying while still students.

 

[Brianga26]

hey I am 30.. still wondering what I want to be when I "grow up".. I had 4 jobs last year.. let me tell you.. the taxes folks hate that!!