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No, but I've gone from one meaningless, low stress job to a low paying, high stress job and went back to the meaningless, low stress job. Do what makes you happy.
For the first time in my life, I know that the phrase money buys happiness is false. I'm making a lot of money but I'm freaking miserable. Stress, office politics, coming in on weekends, overtime, wtf man. Part of me envys the guy who just comes in, does routine work, and punches out and leaves. He has more time, less stress, and while not much more money, I think that's a fair tradeoff. Anybody here actually pull the trigger? how did it turn out?
No, but I've gone from one meaningless, low stress job to a low paying, high stress job and went back to the meaningless, low stress job. Do what makes you happy.
I think it depends on your taste in entertainment, i.e. if you are used to always eating out, seeing shows, and traveling and cant find entertainment in cheaper hobbies, I would keep the job.
What's your job? I agree 1000% with your premise though.
Wanting to quit a high pressure job for a lower, less stressful job its a poor, lazy at ude from you and makes you look like a follower instead of a leader.
No one gets ahead of the pack by working dead end jobs all their lives.
To me that's more misserable than having a job where you need to perform at a high level.
I dont mean to offend you or anything but you sound like a quitter.
If you want to be the sheep, then go get a 9 to 5, low paying job.
MAN you and I are on the same page. I may post out of my position for a lower paying one cause of stress
Not everyone needs to make the big bucks to be happy and there is nothing, nothing wrong with a 9-5 job as I know quite a few who make good money working a 9-5 job. Don't let others bring you down by saying you are not a leader and other crap like that. Do what YOU want to do.
I told him I didn't mean to offend him.
If you want to work it, there its no harm in that. Just dont expect to get ahead in life by working in a cubicle for 50 years.
Mo money, mo problems.
Some people have other priorities. Choose yours. I choose to have a job that does not come home with me. I work a regular work week, but I am not in a cubicle. I have a nice corner office. My definition of getting ahead is obviously different from yours. I have no interest in being a boss. I see his job and I do not want it. I like doing what I do. Often people are good at what they do so they get promoted until they end up doing something they hate. I stay doing what drew me to my job in the first place, and I have time and energy left for my child. I work very hard at my job- I am not lazy or a quitter- but when I leave, I leave, and I work just as hard at my job at home.
If you do decide to leave your current job, don't let it be for more free time or lower stress. That won't "buy" you happiness either. Find something that you're passionate about and start from there.
I've never considered it so seriously before. My job is not tenable in the current incarnation and I do not expect that there will be any changes when I return from maternity leave.
I spent most of my pregnancy in a constant state of high stress (to be fair, a chunk of that was related solely to the high risk pregnancy) - I went back on anti-depressants/anti-anxiety meds during pregnancy despite the risks of breathing problems at birth because of my job. I left several things undone when I gave birth because there simply wasn't time to do them.
I have realized since I went out just how completely insane things had gotten because I have anxiety attacks whenever I *think* about work. I had to log in to my work email to retrieve a password to get my daughter added to my insurance and I'm still shaking an hour later (I only read two or three other emails while it was open). For God's sake, my doctor threatened to put me on bedrest if I didn't reduce my hours at work and my reduction was to try to leave at 5 every day (I did that once I think).
In the end, you have to weigh out what is important to you in life and go from there. I can't just quit my job - we have bills and obligations. But I can try and find something comparable - it's not like they've paid me for the additional work I took on in September (and I realized today that they can't replace me with a single person - they would have to have at least 2 people). Going back to work and being away from my daughter for 10 hours a day is going to be hard enough - and I have never wanted to be a stay at home mom. Going back to a job I hate that is literally taking years off my life and cannot be done even in 55+ hours a week simply isn't worthwhile to me any longer.
If that's where you are in your life, look for something else. You get one chance at this, you know? May as well enjoy it.
I'm not lazy. It's just that I feel that sometimes work is just a waste of time filled with mundane boring tasks that rich people do not have to worry about. I wish I had the free time to explore, travel, write, play, etc....but no, I have to go to my boring job day after day. Any ideas on how to get out the rut?
Find another job.
yo easy job clown.
how else are you gonna ball so hard?
Easier said than done. I've love a job where I get paid to shoot minorities, but those aren't always available on careerbuilder.
Also,mouse's numerous trolls giving career advice in this thread...if that don't beat it all.
i quit a high stress low paying job for a low stress lower paying job, feels great
Yes. Changed careers and moved to another country because I was tired of the rat race. Originally planned to take a sabbatical of sorts, 1 or 2 years, but I've been living & working as an expat for 10 years.
Not for everyone & it has it's ups and downs. I make a fraction of the money I made in the US, but overall I'm better off, especially in the time off dept.
However:
I mostly agree. If I had to do it all over again, I'd focus on making my life's passion my life's work. How many of us are stuck in jobs/careers we don't enjoy and/or aren't really interested in? The vast majority I reckon.
It takes time to find your passion, so I think that in that regard, free time is a beneficial thing.
Best of luck. Here's something worth considering IMO:
Top five regrets of the dying
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life?
I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
"This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence."
- more ->>
Last edited by Capt Bringdown; 05-23-2012 at 03:28 AM.
Absolutely.
I have some stress at times at work, but my normal day is usually pretty stress free.
If you can manage with a lower income, and not stress financially, then that is far better in my view. I learned a very long time ago that if you let money drive you, it's an endless vicious cycle. The more you make, the more you want.
I can't say I ever "pulled the trigger," but seeing what I've seen, I simply never pursued one of those high stress jobs. I can say however, I would, as long as I could live on the lower income.
Not everyone's vision of "getting ahead" is the same as yours.
Benjamin Franklin wisely said, “There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”
Do you really need all that you want? Will the possessions that you want bring true happiness? I think not, possessions do not bring you happiness.
Have you thought about what does bring you true happiness?
well I heard a story on NPR the other day if anyone is interested. If you have any experience in an oil field or with plumbing Austrailia will relocate you and your family and pay you far far more than the same job gets paid here (Average boilermaker there is making 300k, was an example given). It seems that they have a lot of minerals/oil/etc in the ground and a willing customer (china) to pay top dollar, but they don't have many workers to get it out of the ground. They are importing a ton of workers giving anywhere from a 1 year visa to a permanent work visa. It would seem like that would be a low (mental) stress job. It might be physically stressful, but when people are talking about this kind of thing they usually aren't talking about physical stress. (this sounds cool to me, but I have no experience)
Oh and, to each his own, but I have a ty routine job that doesn't pay well and I can't stand it. There is literally no challenge and it is mind numbing. It weighs on me every day. Before anyone says to go get another job, I am trying.
Last edited by Drachen; 05-23-2012 at 08:44 AM.
Is this your first job?
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ~George Savile, Complete Works, 1912
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