why i quit my 9-5
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- after months of going back and forth with this decision, i finally quit my 9-5 near the end of august. it was nerve-wracking and it's obviously not the most widely agreed upon decision to make. there were a lot of moments of doubt and uncertainty. but it's been just a bit over two weeks since my last day at work and i can honestly say i've never felt more energized. this video is not to tell you to quit your job, but it is a video telling you alternatives to your current reality exist :)
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I feel that your dreams don't come true by trying to keep safe with a 9 to 5 job. I hate that trapped feeling. Jobs can be soul-crushing. Not enough time for socializing and hobbies
well said! i think a 9-5 makes it really difficult to grow and work on yourself as a person- when you're stuck in a place that drains all of your energy all day long, it's like any free time becomes time to recharge instead of time to actually grow and nourish yourself
I quit my 9 to 5 three years ago to pursue my passion of making video games. Mine ended up flopping and now I'm back at a 9 to 5 but I still consider it one of the best decisions of my life. I very much had the same mindset you stated: accepting the consequences of pursuing meaning.
hey nick, thank you for sharing this! i think that's really powerful that even though pursuing video games didn't end up working out for you, you can still see the worth & value you gained from the experience. better to have tried and failed than not tried at all! and honestly is anything really a failure if you learned something from it? i don't think so :)
This is how I felt too.
I work as data entry for accounting and I was miserable. I felt I had no purpose, no connection to my work or team, and lack of challenge and growth. It was very mind numbing.
I became super depressed and my social anxiety heightened. I didn’t know what I was dealing with. Everyday I wanted to cry and I hated my life and myself. In August 2023, After 2.5 years, I quit my job without anything lined up. It was the best thing I did. Thank you for sharing your experience!
thank you so much for sharing your experience ❤️ i'm so glad to hear everything ended up working out for you. if a job is making you feel like this i don't think it's worth sacrificing your mental health. wishing you the best! ✨
Yep, 9-5 is taking over the whole life at some point and do not forget about the only very few weeks of holidays every year.
seriously! my job gave me 3 weeks off annually and it's really sad to me that that's considered a good amount of time off 🙃
I totally agree with you! I decided to quit my 9-5 because I've never wanted to be a receptionist, customer service is so awful, and that job was driving me into a very unpleasant mental and emotional situation. The position you quit sounds more like something I could do, but honestly, I'm against the 9-5 in-office system. I also believe that yeah, we should get money to survive, but we also deserve to at least decide when we want to work and if we want to do it from our home. I don't know, maybe it's a lot to ask but I think it would be more fair. So I totally support your decision! Wish you the best for this new chapter in your life!
first of all congrats on prioritizing your mental health and quitting that job
Every time I see children, I feel so sorry for them to go through all these stupid bs when they’re grown up.
Can you imagine? Whatever the creator of this universe thought it was a good idea to have wage slavery and homelessness etc. What kind of a designer is that?
Honestly, I just want to quit this nonsense life and rest as nothingness forever.
i totally get what you're saying. but i do think there's hope! a lot of people are waking up to all of this that you're talking about and how limiting it is, and people are starting to take control of their own lives more and more i think :)
I quit my 9-5 yesterday. It's absolutely scary. I relate 100% .This video gave me some comfort. Thank you!
yes it's definitely not a comfortable feeling leaving security and jumping into uncertainty!! ( or infinite potential depending on how u look at it :D ) but it's a wonderful exercise in self-trust and really showing yourself what you're capable of :) so glad to hear this video could bring you some comfort 🤍 congrats on following your intuition and i'm wishing you the absolute best of luck with everything!! ✨
Having a 9 to 5 is not the answer to financial stability. It's nice to have as a springboard to your success. Save while you have it, then quit wisely not abruptly.
I put in my two weeks for the job for the traveling merchandising job. So it was pretty stressful and causing me too many burnouts to go through a lot of stores in each day to stock out. It was hard for me but it’s for the best. My passion is to work in the mental health field so I got a job as a therapist to work with kids. I’m going to go on the training and everything so I’m excited. I appreciate hearing your stories and perspective. I think sometimes it’s important to do what’s best for your mental health. Thank you for sharing.
hi melanie, thanks so much for your comment and your support
After 10 years In management I finally started experiencing some of the things you mentioned
Thank you for this video. I go to my 9-5 job everyday feeling like this, and just wondering what I’m doing on a day to day basis feeling like I’m not living in my purpose. And having a day off during the week feels great because I have the whole day to just do whatever I want and put towards my passions, thank you for not making me feel alone. Working on photography and makeup artist I’m just so fearful. And this really documented your whole journey and validated how I feel ❤️
this makes me so happy to hear this ❤️❤️ i'm so glad this could help you feel validated and i wish you the best of luck on your journey!! ✨
im thinking about doing this also. my job is so easy and i have great hours and the weekends off. But i work with all females and im sorry to say it has become toxic. I say goodmorning to everyone , every morning, and then i stay to myself and still, two of the women who ive literally never had a conversation with, started to gossip and spread lies on me. I was so hurt because im the nicest person ever. My friend that works there explained to me that people can be jealous of your light. They dont even know why they dont like you. But now i just hate going to work. Its ashame, women cant be more supportive of each other.
this sounds like a really difficult situation :/ but it sounds like you're handling it with grace~ you seem like a lovely woman who will stand her ground and not allow people like this to dim your light ✨
Thank you for this 🥺🥺 I've also been wanting to quit my job already. I love the people I work with but I'm just not happy anymore, I feel like I'm constantly anxious about work that I couldn't stop thinking of them even on my days off. I dread waking up in the morning and I'm constantly tired. I feel like I'm just living to work. I want to find more purpose in life and have greater control of my time. However, I got so much important responsibilities. My managers appreciate me so much and I don't wanna let them down and cause so much inconvenience if I leave. I just really wanna quit already but I don't have the courage to tell them. I dont know what to do😢
this is a really tough situation i’m sorry to hear you’re feeling this way :/ but i’m glad you can resonate with this video ❤️ it sounds like you’re only staying at this job because you’re scared of letting others down- i totally get that feeling but at the end of the day i think you should listen to how you’re feeling regardless of how quitting may impact the company. you don’t owe a company anything! whatever decision you end up making i’m wishing you the best luck 🫶🏻
Your video has definitely inspired me. I'm kind in the position you described at this moment.
hi chris, i'm so glad to hear that
Waiting until I have saved enough to go some time to figure out what I want as well - surely not a "regular" corporate job for the same reasons as you. I get the same overwhelming feeling of wanting to cry whenever I talk about it - it really goes deeper than we think
so well said
Yeah I hate that feeling not being in control 😢I need to be able to pick and choose when I want to work extra. I want to pick my own schedule.
I am so very pleased to know that you are happy and made the right decision. At this age, it is the right time to try different career avenues and to be happy.
thank you
I dunno if it makes you feel better, but I've quit and been fired from tons of jobs and I'd like to think I'm still turning out okay (approaching mid 30's now, located in ON most of my life). A little time away from work never hurt anyone. Obv I don't recommend frequent quitting, but sometimes you just have to, in order to reset. I'm sure you'll find the path that suits you. Worst case scenario, you just take an equivalent job similar to whatever you just quit (yeah needing income sucks but it's life sometimes) and work from there, but it sounds like you're family is supporting you with housing for now so that's a good place to be. Leverage that and use your time wisely, and keep grinding, you'll get there, wherever you're supposed to be. Thank you for sharing your story, it was interesting to watch. Cheers from ON.
hi john, thanks so much for your comment
@@__nicoleerin Definitely yo. Work will never go away and society will always have roles that need to be filled so that the system remains operating. I not only support quitting for people who want to dream big and try a ton of stuff, but I also support it for people like me, who want to just do absolutely positively nothing for a little while, just to recharge their mind and soul. I don't recommend what I did because it's arguably not the best for physical health, but my mental health was never better (in recent terms) - after quitting, I smoked weed all day every day for 1.5 years, doing absolutely nothing other than listening to music all day. Occasionally I worked on little projects in number theory when I felt like it, and eventually I went back to engineering when I noticed my bank account was getting thinner than I feel comfortable with. I was blessed to land an even higher paying job than the one I had left - I attribute this last part mostly to luck and timing rather than purely to skill (although to my credit I did have a number of engineering projects mostly in the area of math and computer science as evidence that my brain wasn't turning to complete rot during my 1.5yrs away from the discipline). I guess all I'm saying is, know what you want from yourself and your life, think it through before acting, and do what is best for you. At the end of the day, no one can create the life you want for you, it's up to you to plan and to act. Thanks for letting me write all that, I never get to share my stories. Peace, wishing you success on your journey through this life.
Good luck with everything you have a really good energy and I hope everything works out for you
hi rebecca, thank you so much for this sweet comment 🥰🥰❤️❤️ hope your 2024 is off to a fab start
Hi!!! I just saw your video as I am making my big step too. I found myself resonate with your toughts so much! Every time you mentioned some opinion I could feel like this is exactly what I told all my friends recently!!!:D I am still in the period where I am gaining courage to take on this decision but hearing someone share my exact thinking process made me feel more sure in my mind :) thank you for this video
hi pauline! thanks so much for your comment
Hi Nicole, I resonate and agree with everything you are saying. I experienced very similar things a few years back and I also had to quit my job and take a year long sabbatical.
Unfortunately I was not able to work on my creative projects as much as I would like to because I had to take this time to recover from burn out. So I was focusing on recovering my normal levels of energy and getting back the love for life that I had before.
I'm happy to hear that you noticed all those signs earlier and it sounds like you have energy and desire to work on your own projects during this time off.
Good luck with your projects and I hope everything will work out in the best way for you! :)
hi hanna, thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing this ❤️ burn out is no joke, sometimes recovering from it can feel like a full time job in itself lol. i really appreciate your support and wish you the best with your future endeavours as well :)
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am literally going through the same exact thing and it's encouraging to see how others have experienced and overcome the same situation. I keep going back and forth between feeling like a failure and being confused about my life purpose. I feel both "accomplished" and a "failure" because I got my degrees (masters and bachelors) and I finally had the job and I hated it and now I have nothing to show for it. I quit my job 2 months ago because I felt suffocated and like my soul was being crushed into nothing. Now I'm trying to figure out what's next. Currently working part time to pay the bills and exploring my options.
thank you so much for sharing your experience as well ❤️ i think it's really valuable for people to see just how many people are going through the same thing or feeling the same things. i couldn't put that into words better than you did- it really is an odd feeling having accomplished what you thought you always wanted to do or "should" do only to realize it led to complete unfulfillment. and a huge congrats to you on quitting your job!! it sounds like it was a really tough decision, especially after all you went through to get there, massive kudos to you for making that brave decision. i think in the end following your gut is something that will always pay off!
Don’t worry about what other people think. You can have your own beliefs about money and work. It’s your life and you’re not naive or silly just because someone else tells you that ❤
❤️❤️❤️ :,)
Investing in yourself can be done any rime. I spent time in a residential real estate office. I was supposed to be contacting residential home owners. Instead, I was contacting commercial and industrial building owners and sending bulk mail to regular home owners who were behind on their taxes. I was told "we don;t do that here" -- so I left and kept doing what I was doing. Made sense to me. No license is required to buy property.🙂
I quit in July. I’ve been unemployed since. I had some savings that I’ve depleted lol thank god I live with my parents! I’m studying & redirecting my energies towards a career path that doesn’t suckkk my life force :)
congrats!! i'm sure this will pay off in the long run :)
I got an added benefit of my job destroying my heath. So whats my flow chart looks like?
This is how Is how I feel now. I'm spending all week at work and finally get 1 or 2 days off. I can't really do what i love with my time because of work and kids. I will eventually leave my job...hopefully
thank you for sharing this
I also quit my job at the age of 52. Saved 600k and moved to Spain. Best decision!
congrats!!
I recantly had to quit my 9-5 job, it was just way to much for my mental heath and the overturns of employment was ridiculous ! Im about to start a new job, hopefully it's better than the other job!
hi kelsey! that's wonderful that you prioritized your mental health ❤️ hope everything with the new job goes well!! 🤍
I'm very happy for you. There are some of us that get so used to all the negative emotions that we lose touch with our reactions and we carry on like this in cubicles for decades. You go, girl 💪
As a return gift for your video, I leave you a quote by John Burroughs: Leap, and the net will appear ✨
thanks so much for this sweet comment arina ❤️ exactly, that's what i worried about was the possibility of that feeling of unfulfillment and stagnancy becoming the norm and almost getting numb to it. i love this quote so much 🥰✨ sending love your way!
This is so true. You broke it all down really well 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️
thanks so much marian, appreciate that :) ❤️❤️
You’re so pretty girl. And I relate to this so much im glad you prioritized yourself
thank uu
I quit recently as well. It's a tough decision but it's so freeing
congrats!! ❤️
I'm employed at a tech company for 6 years now, which is a long period in that field in a single company. I can feel you.
Even though I get my hands on a variety of projects, it feels like sand running down the hourglass.
Last week I should sign a contract extension. I wasn't feeling it that much and wanted to have paragraph in it that guarantees me I can quit on the spot without fulfilling the whole contract.
The looks in HR and the tech lead were very hilarious. I told them that I have actually little interest in staying, because of the politics that are going on in this company and behind my back. In addition I have a very good chunk in savings & investment - no debt I need to pay off so I can move on without hesitation into another field that actually benefits human kind instead.
That dropped their jaws and they tried to convince me with more money. Money is not everything - some people still need to learn this.
The thing is that u were smart and made investments and saved some money. Some ppl have debts and a mortgage and kids etc so they cant afford to jump around between jobs all time. im not in tech, inwish i had the opportunity, i just have a regular blue collar job but i do have a mortgage, i have to rent some of the rooms to help myself unfortunately. As far as right now i have no kids or married so that helps.
hi thomas, thanks so much for sharing this ❤️ a huge congrats on sticking to your vision and following through with your intuition. sounds like you've paved yourself a pretty solid foundation in terms of being debt-free and having clarity on your direction going forward. wishing the best of luck to you!!
wishing you the best ❤️
Glad i found your channel sis .thanks somuch ❤.and wish you the best
awh thanku so much for this sweet comment
Congratulations 🥳 and good luck with new beginnings
thanks so much anna 🥰
I quit my job about 8 weeks ago, greatest decision based on most of the things you expressed in this video. I hope you find the joy, happiness and success in your future endeavours.
thanks for your comment ramone, so glad to hear things are working out for you :) i appreciate your kind words and i wish you the same
So happy for you for putting your wellbeing first & doing what is right for you. I also quit my 9 to 5 & im setting up my own fashion accessories brand with a very big twist from what a lot of others are doing. I did a degree I hated and just went downhill from there. 😂 Spent a lot of time connecting with myself & what it is I want as I was dissociated for years. And like you I worked jobs that gave me no purpose and wasnt utilising skills I knew that were unique to me.
thank you so much!
I believe in you!!! I know you will figure something out wish you the best.
thanks so much!! ❤️
I enjoyed your video. Keep making videos, I'd love to see where this decision takes you and what opportunities open up for you.
thanks so much
I feel so heard! Good luck, looking forward to hearing how your journey goes. Especially your point about us being kind of trapped into these societal contracts at birth with no real choice...
thank you so much for your kind words!!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS. The validation I needed. To know I am not crazy. Thank you a thousand times.
thank YOU for your support!! i’m so glad to hear this vid could help you out :) not crazy at all, honestly sometimes i think everyone else is crazy bahaha
You really inspired me with this video thank you for sharing your story ❤️
this makes me so glad to hear 🥰 thank you so much ❤️
You are such a beautiful being and the universe applaud you to have connected with yourself, only good things can come out of this since you've connected with your own source. When you do this, you live a life without regrets. Much love and success to you Nicole xo
thank you for this beautiful beautiful comment ❤️ this really warmed my heart 🥰
You're so pretty! I would believe you if you told me you are a model. The older I get, the more my need for fulfilling work. I just need enough to travel, have a good home base and would love to control my time. The pandemic taught me that a job doesn't define me. I enjoy freelancing or doing gigs. Becoming self-employed is the goal. It's scary to take risks but it will pay off in the end :)
awh thank you so much
Interesting video, one which I can relate to quite well. I was once in a similar situation but because some older friends in my life got in touch with me they helped me to persevere through a very difficult task and I am grateful to God that they were in my life, because after pushing through doubts and high stress for several months, everything eventually completely turned around. A situation that had me in constant stress turned into one of joy and excitement very quickly and I would have wasted a massive opportunity for growth if I gave up when things got as hard as they did. Perhaps things would have still worked out if I gave up back then, sometimes we need to push through difficult tasks to help us grow thick skin.
thank you for sharing! this is a beautiful anecdote and i think it's a really valuable perspective you have here- i completely agree that there are some things worth pushing through. i think it's case-to-case, and about determining if pushing through that thing will personally bring you value or not. i'm really glad to hear in your case it did ❤️
I work in insurance right now and I hate it. I’ve been thinking of quitting for a year. I’ll finally do it this year, I don’t know what kind of job is right for me but at least I know my current job isn’t it
exactly, one step closer to the job that's the right fit for you. with whatever you choose going forward, wishing you the best of luck !
This is a good video!
I feel exactly like you did rn i bought a camera 3 weeks ago and passed out some photography cards for a love offering and it took off now idk how to manage a 9-5 and doin photography ive always been into shooting film and photography my tik tok blew up off of the shortfilms ive posted and after watching this im gonna work on a exit plan im goin to do it the smart
i completely get where you're coming from. the struggle of trying to balance a 9-5 which is completely draining you while trying to nourish a passion you want to pour your whole being into... it's rough to grapple with the transition. congrats on all of your success thus far though! and best of luck with the rest
11:55 No, you do not have stability. You can be laid off at any time for any reason. So you have to leave jobs that do not allow you growing. The best approach is leaving the job when you have landed another job. However, if your current job is killing you, leave it the sooner the better.
totally agree
Good for you!,👍🏾. Find your passion
thank you!! ❤️
life is a trap
That's why I'm an antinatalist.
i will kindly have to disagree with you there ❤️
Great video
thank you so much :) ❤️
This is random but u look like Caroline from the vampire diaries!!
omg thank you!! i was a huge vampire diaries fan so i take that as a huge compliment hehe
I feel the same
I'm looking and going to have a new job, by next year
you will!
Everyone should just become a social influencer in the future. No need for jobs. RUclips feeds all! As a RUclips content creator, you're already part of the creative industry!
lol i wish!
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I wish you have a best life.
thank you so much for this sweet comment
I also worked at an insurance brokerage, it was a fortune 500 company 🤭 It was also a suuuper boring job filling in insurance claims... We might've worked at the same company
oh loL, so you know the lifestyle lol 💀 that's def possible, would be wild if we did but will remain undisclosed 😂
hey anyone can pursue any avenue they want to make money, my thing is just don't then ask the people who are working 9 to 5s to pay you to not work etc (in the way of unemployment , food stamps, hand outs, welfare). Now if you get laid off unemployment is there for that but if you quit that is on you etc. So do your thing, just please don't take assistance.
thanks for sharing your thoughts! i do get your point. it's a really tough debate when you really get into the nuances of all of it- like people who simply can't work due to disability or other circumstances. but i think you're referring more to mentally/physically able people who simply quit and choose to rely on programs like this- if that's the case i completely agree.
Save money then invest,financial freedom and yes you are beautiful
14:54 Now try redesigning the diagram as a business analyst :) using appropriate notation :))).
Tmr i might get fired lol am excited 🥂 happy for anyone doing what they like 🥂
lol well i'm glad you were excited about it! hope it all worked out!
Respekt
thx so much
Please stop calling yourself unemployed. Unemployed by definition means someone who is looking for a job but cannot for the love of god find one and hence is jobless. There is a huge difference between having quit your job purposefully in order to do other things and simply being unemployed. Unemployment implies you are looking for a job but can't find one. You are an explorer or jobless at worst, not unemployed.
hi avisha, thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. after reading your comment, i see how this is an important distinction to make. this is something i will be more cognizant of going forward!
you have very beautiful face especially your nose when looking from the side
thank you
you live with family?
i do! luckily, definitely a goal to move out in the next year or so though!
It sounds like they hired you mainly as an ornament.
i think they hired me with the best intentions! but definitely the role itself felt sorta like a filler job at times
Unless you have an asset for your passive income you are in the rat race for money(
Not to mention that race, pretty privilege and what kind of passport you are holding play a big, big role in the success of a a career. This coming from someone who comes from a 3rd world country in her 20s as WOC and religious oppression. I’m trying to escape through education and see if I can flee and make it outta my country alive. No one asks to be born and natalists are immoral. Nobody asked for this. Nobody.
it's fucked up that these things impact career success but you're so right that they do. as a white woman living it canada i'm aware it was likely far easier for me to get this job in the first place, let alone quitting it to pursue a creative career.
and it is true that nobody asked to be born, and unfair that where we're born or who we're born as can drastically impact our lives. at the end of the day all we can do is make the most out of the cards we've been dealt.
good for you for going after education and aiming for the life you want, i'm sending you lots of love and wishing the absolute best for you ❤️