Comments on: 10 Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/ Ideas for a World Out of Balance Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: tom http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-47295 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:10:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-47295 I quit my job in family busines after 20 years. My asshole parents kept telling me they were going to leave the business to me. Then they sold it. Havent had a job in 8 months. I thought about how it would feel to jump off a bridge into traffic today. Past 20 years were a horrible waste of time. Not sure I can forgive them.

]]> By: Yogi http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-46604 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:38:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-46604 About 100 years ago 90% people in the world worked for themselves. And they had done so for eons. How times have changed. Or rather capitalism has changed all of us to believe that this employment (enslavement) option is the only Way of making a living.

]]> By: Saad http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-44881 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:49:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-44881 why is it ok to get yelled at if you are a kid? You said yelling is abuse, and you mentioned that the audience is no longer a child and so should not be yelled at. Thats silly though, as adults we are MORE equipped to deal with verbal abuse. Help me our JC

]]> By: Louise McGregor http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-44702 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:31:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-44702 If I scored 5 1/2 out of 10 I guess I’m lucky I was made redundant.

Thank you for this. It’s given me lots to think about, and some reassurance, as I take a big leap.

(The half is because it wasn’t selling diet pills – but a job has receptionist at a nearby hotel seemed like a good idea).

]]> By: Ryan http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-44323 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 03:52:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-44323 I can’t believe no one has commented on this for 4 months. It really is true. You can dream and wish and hope and fantasize about quitting your job, but there is only one way to ensure that those dreams and hopes have a chance of materializing. I have the perfect profile to spend 20 years in the finance industry, work my arse off everyday until it is hurting, and then retire at 45 as I will inevitably have earned enough by then. But I don’t enjoy that shit. I graduated in 2009. Post 2009 is not the time to be working in finance. It is not worth the risk, If you want to be doing something where there is risk and return (no return in finance now), go start something on your own. You have almost free access to a medium that can circulate your ideas to 1.7 billion people in any language you wish. I have started a venture of my own, on which I am losing a shit load of money currently, but my current customers love what we’re doing. And that keeps me going, as I have to believe that I will break even at some point in 2014. To keep myself going, I freelance before and after I finish work at my business. It results in 15 hour days on many days of the week, but I have learnt more in the last 10 months than in the 4 years prior to that. I am making a crap load of mistakes, but I see them as tools to fine tune my game so that I become a freaking awesome entrepreneur at some point in the very near future. With the skills I am developing, I know I can always get a job at a good company. But that will be the LAST resort. I will try and fail as many times as I need to. If I am absolutely broke after many attempts, I can always go get a cushy job. And once I have saved up a little, I will start on the entrepreneurial path again.

As for those with kids, mortgages, EMIs etc, start downsizing (keep the kids) and I am sure you will reach a stage where you think you can jump ship.

All the best!

]]> By: patricia http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-43639 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-43639 you make me laugh.

]]> By: rashley314 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-43638 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:21:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-43638 you say I should leave if people are yelling at me…. what if I’m battling urges to yell at everyone I run across? What if I resent people who talk about their hobbies, home lives when I think the business is in the toilet???

]]> By: Eran http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-42683 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:05:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-42683 Awesome story.

For me, I got my startup going while having a full time job, and when I had about a year or two of savings, and a company that was growing fast, I jumped ship.without even thinking much, even though I was, and am still in, the most volatile industries in the world. I do not like being a slave to others. It’s simply about having a safety net, besides, I knew skills were half decent and I could easily go get a job again if I needed to. I have four kids and a wife.

Seriously, if you had millions saved up, why would you ever worry about work again? And if you are not saving at a ridiculous rate considering your income leevl, then I would spend 90% on minimizing expenses so that you can break free sooner.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-32496 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:01:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-32496 uplifting………….. courage fails me so still here suffering hoping for a miracle which will never happen if i dont take action.
Thx, love ur blog

]]> By: scrobTV http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/10-reasons-you-need-to-quit-your-job/#comment-30508 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:32:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=1663#comment-30508 “The one area where slavery is legal in America is when one company buys another company” You forgot prisons, since they became businesses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPZed8af9RI

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