I'm Laughing At Myself...

I am also impressed with myself...

I had an interview with a major internet and cable corporation (NOT Comcast) in my city, and I just told them I wouldn't be coming in.

It would have been a great opportunity, however I am choosing happiness over money. I recently started a part time job working for an interior designer, and I LOVE it. It is my dream job. I am going see where that goes.

So what am I going to do today instead? I am going to go hike up a mountain. That is right. I blew off an interview at a large corporation and am going to hike a mountain instead.

Kind of funny how our priorities change in life.

 

Hello,

I quit my job about a year ago to have a sabbatical year. I still think it was the best decision I did for a long time.

Regards
Gyro

 

That sounds incredibly therapeutic! What kinds of things did you get up to while you were off work for a year?

 

Hello,

the honnest answer is: not as much as I planned . I read more books than usual and I go on hikes more often. And since I'm Gyro, the engineer, I learned a few new things. I signed up in a physics course at uni. And I spent a few days consulting former customers of mine, they seem to miss me somehow . It's great to
have the freedom to plan your time as you wish, or better just stop planning your time.

Regards
Gyro

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZGFiDa0bM

 

I have been debating quitting my 9 - 6 job and convincing my lover to uproot our family to the beach to work as bartenders until I can write the great American novel or start a successful etsy business selling all natural skin care. I am a woman of many dreams lol.

I dont actually know about bartending but I know this whole wishing 5 days out of 7 of my life away just so I can hurry up and get to the last 2 days is seriously a shitty way to live. Who wants to enjoy life only 2/7ths of the time??

I guess I'm trying to say you did the right thing.

 

You'll probably regret it in 10 years time

Money pays for.security.and healthcare

Your dream job, you'll probably get bored of within a year, no matter what it is

Money doesnt buy happiness, but it does eliminate that stress of what happens at 50 if i need tens of thousands for an operation, or what if i lose this job and no one else will hire me

 

I think you and I have different attitudes. I appreciate your input though.

Fortunately, I didn't burn any bridges with this large corporation, and can always re-apply for a job if I so feel like it.

 

i don't know what you're doing now, but i feel like bartending would be even more miserable than whatever it is.

customer service is awful. customer service for drunk people would have to be even worse.

 

Are you living on a beach somewhere in south america smoking pot all day long?

 

Hello,

Beach isn't my thing. I live in the Black Forest. If the sea levels are rising I'm safe here for a few more years .

Regards
Gyro

 

I quit my extremely stressful job with a massive bitch of a manager in April to move to a small town with my partner. I now work nights part time. I don't have as much money, but I am relaxed, and HAPPY! Money isn't everything, to have your health and happiness is so much more.

 

Interesting perspective you've got there. I'll be 54 years old in a few months. I've been self-employed for just shy of 20 years now and don't regret it. I've got more job security than anyone I know -- who else in the tech sector has been in the same gig since before the turn of the century? I've got health insurance with reasonable deductibles. I can't remember the last time i was bored, at work or away from it. My clients are mostly referrals who know before they contact me that they want me to work for them so aren't shopping around, and they tend to stay with me for years.

The best part: I do not work for assholes. Every now and then one will sneak onto my client list, but as soon as the assholery starts up they fall right back off of it again. Mrs. Heathen and I just had breakfast-for-dinner this evening and polished off the last of the filet mignons that were a gift from an appreciative client -- we'd already knocked out the lobster tails when I cooked the first of the steaks the tails came with. I get gifts and bonuses pretty regularly, and we still get holiday cards from former clients who sold or closed their businesses years ago. We've got standing invitations to visit colleagues and/or clients all over the country.

I also don't tolerate asshole vendors, subcontractors, or employees, though I don't have any employees at the moment and won't have again until the economy recovers completely enough to warrant it.

There are so many nice people in the world with money to spend that it just doesn't make sense to put up with assholes, and wouldn't make sense to do it even if they paid as well as nice people do because the stress they impose upon you diminishes productivity (which is money) and both physical and mental health, which cost money to treat.

Things I don't have: drug tests, credit checks, background checks, an office outside my home where I must appear regularly, a boss, disruptive cow-orkers, threat of layoff, begging for salary increases, take-it-or-leave-it health insurance, office politics, bosses looking over my shoulder to make sure I'm not watching YouTube videos, a dehumanizing work environment, nasty old alcoholics stinking up the bathroom, an employer scoping out my social media accounts, someone telling me I can't smoke pot at my desk, or any of that other wage slave bullshit that most people must learn to endure and pretend not to resent.

Not bad for a freaky old pot smoking longhair who rolls into the office around the crack of noon every day (due to Delayed Sleep Phase DIsorder rather than laziness).

Ashalicious: Follow your joy and chase your dreams. Only draft animals get blinkered so they can't enjoy the scenery along the one-way trip of life.

 

It sounds like you made the right decision to me! I also quit my crap 9-5 job at a telecom company a few months ago and never looked back.

I watched my mom work a job she hated for most of my life and it made her seriously miserable. Money isn't the only thing in the world.

 

It depends a lot on the specific bar and the crowd it draws (and your own preferences naturally). Bartending can be awesome, but it can be really really lousy that way too. A beach bar with large outside terrace/patio sounds not so bad.

 

Or...you could go to a job you hate day in and day out, feeling stressed and miserable to get that "future security", while the stress is giving you dis-ease. Then you die anyway. Worrying about the possibility of needing an operation is 10 years, is needless worry. Worrying about losing your job and can't find another....needless worry.

Life is NOW...not in the future.....live it now.

Ash! Great choice That hike up the mountain is great medicine.

 

Also

 

Yeah you're right, I actually hate working with the public. Bartending is the first job that popped in my head that would be easy to come by in a beach town and with flexible hours and the ability to make a living wage, but I would hate dealing with drunk assholes. At least with bartending you have some leeway to be yourself instead of taking on a fake customer servicey personality.

My ideal job would actually be a work from home job where I can set my own schedule.

 

Be the trailblazer of your own life....

 

Good idea. Hike a mountain. There is no better way. Stand on top and let the wind flow thru your hair and you are there. Right where you need to be.