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I wonder why you wrote > I've never understood the irrational desire to quit your job. instead of > I've never understood the desire to quit your job. It so
by ajkjk 9y ago
I wonder why you wrote
> I've never understood the irrational desire to quit your job.
instead of
> I've never understood the desire to quit your job.
It sounds like you think it's irrational by definition. If you start out already thinking that, of course you won't understand it.
I think it's easily explained by the fact that people have very different emotional responses to "going in to an office every week day for the rest of your life and doing what someone asks of you".
I, for one, dread that, and as soon as I had saved up enough in my first tech job to quit, I quit, to travel and often to do nothing, and I love that. When my bank account gets low I'll get another job for a while.
Others want (in a way that ought to be described as 'need') to be in control of their own fortunes, or to be doing a mixture of things that keep life interesting, or to be doing something that constantly subjects them to new experiences and new people, or to not know what next month holds. So they live their life in a way that gets them toward that.
Others don't know what they want, just that they don't want this, so they're trying other things and experimenting.
Anyway, I don't think you want what he wants. This is nothing like what you wrote:
> But take it from me, a ten-year veteran self-employed creator: If you are looking for security or reassurance, I do not recommend this line of work. However, if you are burning with curiosity — if your heart and intuition lead you to do things that don’t make sense—well, then you don’t really have a choice in the matter, do you?
- vinceguidry 9y agoThe desire is irrational because it doesn't respond to reason. If you try to drill down to real specifics with these people, then eventually you have to give up because there aren't any. They're fixated on not having anything that looks or feels like a job. They can't be convinced that less drastic measures are necessary. They won't engage with their problems logically. You mention control, they want control of their fortunes. That might be true if not for the fact that they don't actually want to learn anything 'salesy'. Their decision-making process is completely oriented around not having a job, not around making money. Because if they really wanted to make money under their own steam, then that would be their goal, and the intermediate steps would reflect that. The closest I can get to these people's underlying thought mechanics is that they just don't want to subordinate any time at all to anyone else. They want complete 100% control over all of their time. Which would be really nice, but c'mon now.
- asdf33323 9y agoThis reads like someone who has never stepped out of their comfort zone and just wants to justify their own life choices.
- vinceguidry 9y agoI dunno. I jumped from school to the military, then out of the military into the workforce. I've had spiritual adventures and travel adventures. I am somebody who knows what I want and why I want it. And I've found that the best path to getting those things is usually the one you're already on, you just have to make slight course corrections.
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- coldtea 9y ago>I dunno. I jumped from school to the military, then out of the military into the workforce. I've had spiritual adventures and travel adventures. And the message from those adventures was "keep your day job and don't try anything independent"?
- ajkjk 9y agoBut why do you find it so hard to empathize with people who look at their lives in a different way? What's with going around calling people irrational instead of just different than you?
- dyarosla 9y ago> They want complete 100% control over all of their time. Which would be really nice, but c'mon now. I think you may be under-valuing how much some people like to be in control of what they put their time towards. These are the people who hate taking a class because its a requirement for a degree, or doing an entry level job that they have no interest in simply to pay the bills. Work is a large part of life. But not working for someone isn't about 'controlling your fortune' so much as it is controlling what you get to put your effort towards for a large portion of your life. Having to work for someone else will lead to less freedom of choice than working for yourself. Or at least, that's the eventual goal. It's quite rational.