1530: 10 More Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job Right Now! By James Altucher on Personal Growth, Creativity, and Financial Security

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[00:01:03] 10 mehr Reasons You Need To Quit Your Job Right Now

[00:01:05] By James Altucher of jamesaltucher.com

[00:01:10] The other day I met a guy who had worked for 38 years at GM.

[00:01:14] He wasn't in the union and he wasn't a high-level executive.

[00:01:17] So, consequently, when the rock of corporate safety in America over the past century went bankrupt, he got nothing.

[00:01:23] No pension, no insurance, no savings.

[00:01:26] The unions got their money. The high-level execs got their golden parachutes.

[00:01:30] The 30,000 in the middle got nothing.

[00:01:32] I thought it was safe, he told me. I thought nothing could touch me.

[00:01:36] The American religion wants you to believe that corporate safety is here, that it's going to protect you and your white picket fence and your framed college degree.

[00:01:45] But it's a lie. The government doesn't care about you. Your bosses don't care about you.

[00:01:50] And when the desert rises up to claim you back into its dust, you'll disappear and nobody will wonder about your accomplishments and the things you are most proud of.

[00:01:59] Even when I had the best job ever, the job that was the best time in my life, I still had to consider, how am I going to escape this?

[00:02:07] Most people need to begin their exit strategy right now.

[00:02:10] So, here's the 10 reasons you need to quit your job right now.

[00:02:13] And after that, I'll talk about the methods for doing it.

[00:02:16] 1. Safety

[00:02:18] We used to think you got a corporate job, you rise up, you get promoted, and maybe you move horizontally to another division or a similar company.

[00:02:26] You get promoted again, and eventually you retire with enough savings in your IRA.

[00:02:31] That's all gone. That myth disappeared in 2008.

[00:02:34] It really never existed, but now we know it's a myth.

[00:02:43] 2. Home

[00:02:50] Everyone thinks they need a safe job so they can save up to buy a home and also qualify for a mortgage.

[00:02:56] Mortgage lenders at the banks like people who are like them, other people locked in cubicle prison.

[00:03:01] Well, now you don't need to worry about that.

[00:03:04] See my post entitled, Why I am never going to own a home again.

[00:03:07] There you can learn why you should never own a home in the first place.

[00:03:10] Save yourself the stress.

[00:03:12] 3. College

[00:03:14] Everyone thinks they need to save up to send their kids to college.

[00:03:17] Depending on how many kids you have and where you want them to go to college, it could cost millions.

[00:03:22] See my post 8 Alternatives to College to learn why you don't need to send your kid to college.

[00:03:27] You don't need to stress about that money anymore.

[00:03:30] 4. Their boss

[00:03:32] Most people don't like their boss. It's like any relationship.

[00:03:35] Most of the time you get into a relationship for the wrong reasons.

[00:03:38] Eventually, you're unhappy and if you don't get out, you become miserable and scarred for life.

[00:03:44] 5. Their co-workers

[00:03:45] See earlier

[00:03:47] 6. Fear

[00:03:49] We have such a high unemployment rate, people are afraid if they leave the job they are miserable at, they won't be able to get a job.

[00:03:56] This is true if you just walk into your boss's office and pee on his desk and get fired, but it's not true if you prepare well.

[00:04:03] More on that in a bit.

[00:04:05] 7. The work

[00:04:07] Most people don't like the work they do. They spend 4 years going to college, another few years in graduate school, and then they think they have to use that law degree or business degree or architecture degree.

[00:04:18] And then, guess what? They hate it. But they don't want to admit it. They feel guilty. They're in debt. No problem. Listen on.

[00:04:26] 8. Bad things happen

[00:04:29] All the stuff I mention in the post, 10 reasons you need to quit your job, start to happen. And it gets worse and worse. You don't want to look back at your life and say, man, those were the worst 45 years of my life. That wouldn't feel good.

[00:04:41] 9. The economy is about to boom

[00:04:45] I don't care if you believe this or not. Stop reading the newspapers so much. The newspapers are trying to scare you. Bernanke just printed up a trillion dollars and airlifted it onto the US economy. Who's going to scoop that up? You and your cubicle? Think again.

[00:04:58] 10. Your job has clamped your creativity

[00:05:02] You do the same thing every day. You want to be jolted, refreshed, rejuvenated. Note that some people do love their jobs. This is not for them, but the 90% who don't.

[00:05:13] So, Henry and Aaron asked a good question. You still need to support yourself. You still need to support your family. You can't just walk into your boss's office and quit.

[00:05:22] Good point. You need to prepare. It's like training for the Olympics if you feel now is the time to move on from your job.

[00:05:28] You need to be physically ready. You need to be emotionally ready. For instance, don't quit your job and get divorced on the same day.

[00:05:35] You need to be mentally ready. Get your idea muscle in shape. And you need to be spiritually ready.

[00:05:42] Some notes on this post.

[00:05:44] Note number one. I get a lot of criticisms from anonymous people in the Yahoo message boards.

[00:05:49] My wife begs me, don't look at the message boards unless you talk to me first.

[00:05:53] Because she knows I'm an addict. I tell her, okay, but I know I'm going to look.

[00:05:57] Because that's what addicts do.

[00:05:59] Note number two. Sometimes people criticize the list format in these posts.

[00:06:04] 10 reasons for this. 10 reasons for that.

[00:06:06] About 20% of my posts are lists. Not so many.

[00:06:09] Read the power of hypnosis or the tooth for two recent non-list posts.

[00:06:15] And Charlton Heston clearly didn't mind lists when he came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments,

[00:06:20] the very first blog post.

[00:06:22] 3500 years later and still getting clicks.

[00:06:25] I don't mind when people critique me when they've lost, quit, or have been fired from as many jobs as I have.

[00:06:31] Or lost a home.

[00:06:32] Tried to raise two kids with almost nothing.

[00:06:34] Been as desperately unhappy as sometimes I've been.

[00:06:37] This doesn't qualify me for anything, of course.

[00:06:39] Maybe it disqualifies me.

[00:06:41] Who cares?

[00:06:42] A lot of people have had much worse than me and I've been very blessed as well.

[00:06:46] Sometimes you can build back up.

[00:06:48] And sometimes you just think, how the hell did this happen to me again?

[00:06:52] You can criticize me on Yahoo message boards.

[00:06:54] You can critique lists if you think you have some better way of helping people.

[00:06:57] My goal in these posts is to help people maybe think for a split second they can reduce some stress in their lives.

[00:07:04] That they don't have to go through what I went through.

[00:07:06] That they can throw themselves into experiences and still come back alive.

[00:07:11] And at the end of the day, they can use some of these ideas to live a better and more fulfilling life.

[00:07:16] I've had that experience and I like to write about it.

[00:07:19] Later tonight, I'm going to give my two daughters, 9 and 12 years old, two choices and only two choices.

[00:07:24] Either they watch Star Wars with me or they watch Schindler's List.

[00:07:28] And if they don't like either choice, then maybe I'll just sit by the TV with some ice cream and watch all by myself.

[00:07:38] You just listened to the post titled, 10 more reasons you need to quit your job right now by James Altucher of jamesaltucher.com.

[00:07:46] And thank you to James.

[00:07:48] He is an entrepreneur, a writer, investor, trader and podcaster.

[00:07:53] And on that podcast, he has interviews with a bunch of talented people like Nancy Cartwright, Sarah Blakely, Tony Robbins, Ariana Huffington and many more.

[00:08:02] That podcast, by the way, is called The James Altucher Show, which is always in the top charts in the business category of Apple podcasts.

[00:08:09] And for good reason.

[00:08:10] He's published 20 books and founded or co-founded over 20 companies.

[00:08:15] So come by jamesaltucher.com to learn and read more.

[00:08:19] That's James and then A-L-T-U-C-H-E-R dot com.

[00:08:24] And James always has a unique take.

[00:08:27] All right, that's going to do it for today.

[00:08:29] I thank you so much for being here.

[00:08:31] Have a great weekend if you're listening in real time.

[00:08:33] And I'll see you back here tomorrow.

[00:08:35] That's where your optimal life awaits.

[00:08:37] Let's see.