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[Anonymous No.13292941]

Anyone quit their job to do something more personally fulfilling and have stories they'd like to share?

My parents and acquaintances think I'm some kind of a bad ass because of my job but it's all a smokescreen and I honestly hate my life. I want to quit and work on organic farms and eventually start my own. I'm just scared of losing that steady income.

[Anonymous No.13293274]

Have you worked on farms before, OP?

[Anonymous No.13293313]

>>13293274
I've worked on hobby farms for about two weeks.

[Anonymous No.13293415]

>>13292941
Once organic farming catches up in cost control you will get FUCKED by bigger farming. It's already happening. Local farming is dying while big organic farming buys them all up. It's too late to start your own farm.

[Anonymous No.13293446]

>>13292941
I quit my job and i hate my life too, not a good reason to stop being autistic.

[Anonymous No.13293449]

>>13293415
Then I'll just wwoof on some old ranchers hobby farm as a penniless farmhand until I die. I don't care. I just want out of clown world.

[Anonymous No.13293497]

>>13292941
If you want to do it then do it. You can always get another job if you decide farming isn't for you, but just taking the safe option makes you a soulless wageslave who'll die with regrets.

[Anonymous No.13293681]

>>13292941
>spent seven years remodeling a house
>lost it to a fire
>get exit scammed by the remediation company that was hired to do the cleanup
>got some money from insurance, but then I lost it all in a structured bankruptcy to walk away from the ruined house
>lawyer said to buy a brand new car to sink as much of my cash into an asset as I could
>left with $300 but a nice fuckin car
>lost my job
>fell for the HODL meme
>rear ended by a chingchong and totaled
>girlfriend seriously injured in the crash
>years of surgeries, but chinko only had state minimums so she'll get next to nothing as the max settlement
>value of car paid off remaining loan and little more
>buy shitty used car and move into a trailer park
>work a job I hate to pay some bills
>quit that job
>sell the trailer
>move to a big city where there are tons of opportunity, but tons of nogs
>one of my few remaining friends offers to put me up in his house for a few months
>contemplate suicide daily
I'm working on three startup/side hustles own-my-own business kinda deals. All stuff I actually enjoy doing. I would rather die that go back to being a wagey, but since I don't qualify for the autismbux and I'm actively refusing work instead of working minimum wage at a factory with blacks and mexicans I've little chance of getting any sort of government assistance.

I just have to make enough to pay for a room and I'll be fine. Just have to turn a profit before I run out of money.

[Anonymous No.13294350]

I did this. My job had a cool title and people thought it was awesome but it was pretty boring and paid bad. I quit to pursue my passion and try to turn it into a business. I had a lot of savings and was financially stable for years, although I didn't tell my gf how much I had. After 2 months she decided I was now a bum loser and fucked her coworker

[Anonymous No.13294434]

>>13294350
Would you do it again?

[Anonymous No.13294485]

>>13294434
10/10

[Anonymous No.13294502]

>>13292941
Yes, becoming financially strained now.

[Anonymous No.13294514]

>tfw it's impossible to make it

[Anonymous No.13294532]

>>13294434
Idk anon, I was a little faggot and became depressed after and basically checked out for a year, so I essentially failed. I tried getting a job back in my old field so I could say I was doing something but couldn't find another one. Starring to try to work on my project again and see where it takes me now.

[Anonymous No.13294539]

>>13292941

I recently quit my job in social media, not as an influencer but a content producer. I’ve shot and traveled with all of the top travel influencers for the best hotels & resorts in the world. It truly was the best job in the world... if you were single and childless. My wife began cheating on me while I was gone and my 6 daughter just started to forget who I was. I had to travel 3 weeks at a time, 15 hour days, back to back with about a week off. Just enough time to acclimate to my home time zone, repack my things and get on the next flight to some tropical or exotic location.

I stayed in the best hotels with carte blanche. 15 hour days consisted of waking up to shoot breakfast in a luxury suite or sunrise on the beach. Each day was filled with activities like yachting in santorini, cliff diving, girls in bikinis, great food and drinks. All of which I got to participate in and enjoy, for free.
Although I was always 100% faithful to my wife, she was convinced there was no way any man could resist the temptations I was exposed to and decided to fuck the brains out of any man she crossed eyes with.

My last trip, I was shooting a sunset on the rooftop of one of the highest buildings in Hong Kong. I stepped to the edge and closed my eyes, about to let the next gust of wind take me from my feet... and suddenly my phone began to ring. My daughter was FaceTiming me from her iPad. She was crying, it was 1pm and she was having trouble making her own breakfast as my wife was passed out from drinking till 3am (thanks for the evidence, Instagram). At this point, I went back to my room packed up my gear and flew back home on the next available flight.

I’m still trying to find the silver lining to this story but as of now, I’m unemployed and in the processes of divorce and trying to rebuild my relationship with my young daughter.

Good luck with whatever you do OP, farm life sounds nice.

[Anonymous No.13294565]

>>13293497
Thanks anon, not OP but I was considering quitting my mediocre job that I just wandered into so travel the country a bit to rockhound before finding better work.

Honestly taking it easy at this job I'm working is exponentially crushing my soul as the months go on. How the fuck people in the 20s worked the same jobs until they were 70 is beyond me. The secretary at my middle school... That was her first job and she worked there for 55 years straight before retiring right out of high school

[Anonymous No.13294588]

>>13294539

Anon, your daughter won't understand for a long time, but you're a good Dad, and she'll really appreciate that one day. If you keep it up she'll take care of you when you're old and decrepit. Godspeed.

[Anonymous No.13294689]

>>13294539
I always wanted a family...one thing I didn't mention in my op is how isolating my job is. I have no social circles to speak of and my job is 90% male so it's not like I'd ever meet anyone through work.

I feel like I'm burying my dreams in a moneybag. I make $65k per year, maybe $70k if I'm lucky. Not worth hating my life over. But I'm addicted to the vanity of the fact that I out earn the people I know my own age (24 yo).

[Anonymous No.13294719]

>>13293681
>seven years remodeling

Wtf Ive gutted and remodeled in months

[Anonymous No.13294766]

>>13294350
lol, what a cunt, and good riddence bro, seriously women are a drain on ALL your resources, the aim should be get rich, fuck bitches and never call them again.

and no, im not 15, im kinda just sick of the rigmarole of being in a relationship..

[Anonymous No.13294794]

>>13292941
anon I know this feel.

I probably have the highest income of everyone I knew in high school, but I hate my job, and I wish I could just quit and be an Alaskan crab fisherman or a debate teacher at a high school or work for a non-profit.

Current plan is to quit when I'm 35. Hopefully by then I've saved up enough money that I can do whatever job interests me, and take occasional unemployment breaks, without running out of money or being forced to live in poverty. The idea of working 40+ hours a week in a high-stress environment until I'm 70 years old scares me more than death itself.

[Anonymous No.13294798]

>>13294565
this shit right here, I would blow my fucking brains out or all the people in the same office followed by myself if I had to work the same job for 3+years, I know not realistic but I get bored very easily of the wagecuck life...

[Anonymous No.13294819]

>>13294539
Right in the fucking feels

[Anonymous No.13294850]

>>13294798
Same, I can't stand working the same job for close to a year. Maybe I have ADHD or something but there's a guy I work with who's been there for 14 years.

Most of the people I see who work these jobs for so long do so because they have debt or a family

[Anonymous No.13294905]

>>13294850
or absolutely no fucking ambition in life to do anything. They are the same people who married their first girlfriend, live in the relative same are as they were born and raised. And when they go on holiday they stay in all inclusive resorts which they never leave and eat the same shitty food they would at home because they are scared of 'change'.

Frankly these people arent living, they are just waiting to expire. Dull dull motherfuckers..

[Anonymous No.13294929]

>>13294850
Also, I kind of fell into doing accounting at aged 20ish, I am now 28 and in university (first time) to become an engineer (electrical&electronic).

Each year of this degree (I had to do a foundation year and resit second year) when working the summers I just fucking despise the whole office work environment, so much so id gladly trade in the good salary to just be a labourer on a building site this summer, it will be the last summer I have to find some bullshit job before I graduate.

[Anonymous No.13294946]

>>13294850
>>13294565

Fucking this. Complacency sucks.
Someone in the same circumstance for 20+ years was either incapable of growth, or failed at doing so.

Even if you have your dream job, you can increase in scope or affect. The dream isn't the labor, its' the result.

[Anonymous No.13294948]

>>13292941
>My parents and acquaintances think I'm some kind of a bad ass because of my job

what's your job.

[Anonymous No.13294972]

>>13293449
It really is clown world out there
Do what you enjoy anon
it's your life after all

[Anonymous No.13294973]

>>13294948
demon hunter, it sucks because the hours are shitty, you get no recognition and your house and clothes are constantly getting fucked up..

[Anonymous No.13294975]

>>13292941
have a kid and report back

[Anonymous No.13294982]

>>13294905
It sucks too, I hate to see people rot and I even ask "why don't you work somewhere else for a change of pace, etc etc". The guy who's been there 14 years also bitches about the company not giving him a raise, but when I ask him why not work somewhere else he just shrugs it off and gives excuses

[Anonymous No.13294988]

>>13293681
sry fren, i hope it'll get better for ya

[Anonymous No.13294989]

>>13294539
fucking 3D

[Anonymous No.13295003]

>>13294539
I'm planning on doing something similar.

My only semi-throwaway account is a plebbit account.

[e-mail] is my throwaway could you let me know there?

[Anonymous No.13295073]

>>13294689

Since you don’t have a family (yet) I would suggest continue working your ass off, save every penny and then quit when you have enough to start your farm. The family will come naturally. Family is incredible and worth more than any job. Unfortunately it’s usually impossible in today’s society to actually have and enjoy family life without the burden of working. If I could do it all again, I’d work and save from 16 to 35, never spend a dime and retire, live a simple life and enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.13296129]

>>13292941

I did once and went broke

[Anonymous No.13297185]

>>13294350

THIS. If you have a gf/wife she will leave you within a few weeks of ceasing your employment.

It's just natural, you're no longer an attractive option and have vastly reduced your social connection and allies.

[Anonymous No.13297531]

>>13294539
That sounds just like my uncles life, except he's 60 and a severe alcoholic. He's probably the only one in the family who could be considered successful though

[Anonymous No.13297550]

>>13292941
I quit my job to fuck 18 year old asian hookers and smoke weed.

I went back to work a year later cause I got bored.

[Anonymous No.13298035]

>>13297550
was it worth it tho?

[Anonymous No.13298105]

>>13294539
kek howd you not just murder your wife and get away with it

[Anonymous No.13299060]

>>13292941
I've quit a Bioinformatics position which caused me to pack up and leave the US' continent to go back home. I haven't been able to break back into the tech world, but I've had some good memories of jumping into so many different jobs and field to figure out what to do with my life and I even managed to make one of my childhood dreams come true by being a cook for a year and getting to work with one of my best buds from HS.

I can't say whether or not it's all worth it. I know I wouldn't be happy in that tech job but on the flipside, I've had basically my entire family and every person who knew my parents have their 15 minutes of fame scolding me about my life decisions. Now, I'm in a white collar job that's not coding in anyway that no one complains about but me.

I wish I could have the confidence to tell you to follow your dreams anon, I'm trying to follow my own and it's difficult (I'm farther behind than you as I don't even know what I want). Hopefully crypto will give us that pass.

[Anonymous No.13299073]

>>13292941
it always greener on the other side until you actually go over there.

[Anonymous No.13299146]

>>13294539
>I’m still trying to find the silver lining to this story but as of now, I’m unemployed and in the processes of divorce and trying to rebuild my relationship with my young daughter.

If the opportunity comes back to you to become a content producer, I do hope you consider taking your daughter with you and homeschooling her along the way. If there's one thing I've found among a number of super successful persons who have managed to maintain super stressful jobs and families, they integrated their family life with their work life.

I implore you to check out Ray Dalio's Principles, it's a book he initially created to inform his staff at the hedgefund Bridewater Associates his mindset in how he approaches everyday problems which he expanded out to teach the rest of the world. Maybe it can help you.