Does quitting your job make you happy?

[Loki]

We will look back at people not working and quitting as an anomaly. I’ve read so much nonsense on a new way of thinking that it was refreshing to read what “science” has taught us.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/will-quitting-your-job-make-you-happy-what-the-experts-say.html

[Mik]

I liked it. Pretty sure George did too. Can’t speak for anyone else.

[George K]

@mik said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:

I liked. Pretty sure George did too. Can’t speak for anyone else.

Never, EVER, been happier since I retired.

I suppose that's different from "quitting," though. It's been a damn fine 5 years.

[Catseye3]

@george-k said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:

Never, EVER, been happier since I retired.

I have non-job related issues that are keeping me from being happy, but even with that, quitting work was one of the happiest days of my life.

I don't see how any "experts" can presume to know anything about the validity of Mik's, George's or my reactions to quitting our jobs. How would they know???

I have some experience with this Sonja guy, and I'm not impressed.

[Aqua Letifer]

It's pretty simple math. Have some things going on that you find more meaningful, and make sure your finances don't make you slip back down Maslow's hierarchy.

[Copper]

Give up an indoor office for an airplane cockpit?

Does that make you happy?

Don't even ask.

[Loki]

Could you all answer the same at ages 20 to 40?

[Jolly]

At 40, yes.

[Horace]

IMO happiness is mostly about crushing one’s enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

[jon-nyc]

I don’t know. For a lot of guys their identity (in the pre-woke sense) is tied up in their employment and/or it’s effects (ability to support a family, etc).

I can’t say I didn’t notice that at times, after hanging up the saddle at 44.

My increasingly significant role at the Foundation fixed all that. lol

[Loki]

@horace said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:

IMO happiness is mostly about crushing one’s enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

Tales of Horace campfire stories.

[Catseye3]

@loki said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:

Could you all answer the same at ages 20 to 40?

Very much not at 20. I had high hopes for landing in a promising work life, but poor planning. By 40 those hopes had shrunk somewhat but not altogether. And so it went. I needed to think differently and know more than I did, and things just didn't work out.