Blog Category: Quit Your Job

Alex would print up fake 5 and 10 dollar bills on his copy machine and spend them in local delis. “They check hundred dollar bills for counterfeit but not ten dollar bills,” he told me. Alex had a high end printing business. He’d make posters, brochures, ads. He had the best copy machines in the world. 10 […]

Imagine if you could write for the top sitcom in America, then write movies in Hollywood, and actually make a ton of money doing it. That sounds like fun, right? Sounds like you would kill to have a dream job like that. Only Matt Berry did the exact opposite of that. He wrote 12 episodes […]

  I wanted to quit my job. I hated my boss. He always yelled at me. I hated my co-workers. They always yelled at me. I was addicted to playing chess online. One time my girlfriend called at 6pm and said, “don’t forget, we have guests coming over for dinner in a half hour.” I […]

I limped out of the meeting and said, “excuse me”, and took the elevator down 67 stories, went to Grand Central, limped home, and never went back to work at that job. I never returned the constant phone calls and emails over the next month. “James, where did you go?” For all I know my […]

Lynn, our child’s babysitter, was a drug addict and her doctor told her that her brain scan was the same as that of an 80 year old man’s who had multiple strokes. Lynn was afraid to tell us she needed to take a few days off from watching Josie so she could go on Oprah […]

This was going to end badly. My boss screamed at me in front of my colleagues. I had done something wrong of course. I had sent a product to the client without debugging it thoroughly. It was my fault. But I don’t like being yelled at. And fortunately I was sitting on a job offer […]

A friend of mine left his corporate job yesterday after 23 years of being trapped in the Matrix. I hate it because I’m envious of that moment. The day I left a corporate job to be on my own for the first time. Suddenly you go from managing a cubicle from the hours of 9 […]