res·ig·na·tion
n.
1. Unresisting acceptance of something as inescapable; submission.
All that rolling. I resigned from my job. Unexpectedly and without much preparation, I resigned and that was that. It was something that I needed to cross of my list of things to do before I go insane. I'd never quit a job before. Well, I'd left jobs to go travelling or to university or to another job that seemed better at the time, but I'd never quit because I just couldn't stand it any more.
It was one of the most brutal things I've ever done.
After five and half years, I am leaving a job I love. The reasons are many and varied, but have everything to do with the way that people are managed in a large corporation. The things that egos will do to get ahead and the type of shenannygoating that goes on and is acceptable. It's not for me. It was never for me, but I loved it regardless.
I honestly can't understand that and frankly don't want to.
I'm terrified to soon be untethered from my career. A lot of my sense of me is tied up in that lot and I'm uncertain and bewildered to be almost free. Regardless, I can see the light and it's bright and brilliant.
Have you ever quit?
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89 comments:
Good luck
And I can't wait til shenannygoating makes the dictionary
Only ever left to have babies or travel....not so brutal
xx
Good on you!! now, wish for what you r-e-a-l-l-y want, including hours and pay, and go for it!!!
Hooray!!! You brave, brave woman! I think any place that gives you the shivets (faux swear word) that much does not deserve to have you.
I quit my last job because I was sick of sitting in meetings where important people picked their nose/ears in front of me without batting an eyelid. AND THEN EATING IT. That wasn't the biggest problem, but it was a very graphic symbol of general political shennanagoating (!!) going on in my department.
Exciting times for you! Scary too, but good. I think you've done the right thing. xxxx
Good for you Bron. It is a huge leap but an amazingly freeing experience. I have quit before, a few times.
I quit a job that I hated when I was much younger. Can't say I went about it the right way, but nonetheless I did it.
I also quit a job that I loved, not so long ago, but knew it was time to change course. One thing leads to another and it has been one of the best decisions I ever made.
That's what I love about life. We have the power to change it. Even if at the time it feels so scary.
Bravo. You won't look back x
It's hard to do what you did. And brave. Good on you for being true to you and what you stand for. And I think your talents can take you wherever you want to go!
I have never quit (apart from the same as you - to go travelling etc...), but sounds like you have made the right decision. Good luck with the new adventure. I'm sure you'll love it!
Wow what a huge thing for you today. You're a go getter, and have such a way with words Bron I'm certain there will be good things ahead for you. I've quit a job not long after I got married and was only just pregnant, boy was it scary but I just had to get out of there I really didn't like my boss at all. Good on you Bron for making the leap of faith. xx
How liberating, yah.for.you! Somethings do just end up in the too hard basket!!!
Breathe deeply and savor the huge leap of faith you have made....faith in yourself and your abilities. You were not your job and you will be amazing whatever next step you take!
Brave, brave thing to do! Good luck on your next journey! x
Yes indeedy I have and for the same reason as you - shenannygoating plus an almost catholic capacity for guilt tripping from within 'the system' and I was 'outa there....after 18 years.
I'll be honest, it's been tough at times but that's probably attributable to other circumstances that have happened concurrently rather than just leaving the job.
Better that you said "Adios!" when you did rather than stick around and ruin your physical & mental health.
Onward and upward Lovely...or following on from my comment yesterday - enjoy riding the slopes on your cafeteria tray.
xx
I feel a bit like what you've described in my current job but not decided to quit...yet. Let's see what happens when I return from maternity leave in April.
Best of Luck to you, Bron. It takes guts to do what you did. The courage to follow through and say enough's enough, this is not for me. I've resigned twice (the first time was to travel overseas to live with the Love of My Life, the second time was to have 3 babies). I even turned down a position which I thought I really wanted but my inner instinct kept screaming no! no! no! Always follow your intuition and have faith that something better is out there for you. Onwards and Upwards! (P.S: 'shenannygoating' and 'shivets' are my new favourite words) Good Luck! xxx
Well done Bron! It takes a lot of guts to do what you just did. I'm sure the next step you take will be awesome!
wow, such a huge thing for you!
well done.
here's to many new adventures ♥
I have never been employed by anyone..started working at 14 and been self employed all my life... Am sure it has made me unhirable as I don't take to rules and regulations well but hi hum.... It's about doing what you are comfortable with and clearly your move makes you ready to kick of those shoes and sit back and relax at what is to come... Good on you x
ooooh bron I had a feeling this was what your rolling was.. well done you, however scary it feels right now. I think the fear will magically transform into something truly wonderful. and yes, I have quit, from a large corporation too, I was being ridiculously underpaid because of my age, and I was too naive to stand up sooner.. and when I did, they couldn't care less. they were happy to praise me as one of their best workers, but let me leave with all my experience on massive $$ cases, to hire a newby to replace me - for the same money I was asking for.. so I went elsewhere for an easier job, way more perks, and way more $$. and it felt so damn good to walk out that door and leave all the egos behind!!! xx
Congratulations! Just think of all the wonderful possibility open to you now xo
Good choice missy. Life is too short to be driven insane by work.
xxxCate
OMG Good on you! It is for all those reasons I hate my job so much. If only I had the courage to follow your lead. Although I think at this stage it's about me finding the courage to stay. even if only for a little while longer.
No, but well done you for being brave enough to!
I should have once and didn't and I was miserable for a very long time!
Wow. Bron! That is HUGE!
And I can imagine it would have been brutal, but by the sounds of things, liberating also?!
Kudos to you!
Your party planning career awaits :)
Where to next? GOOD LUCK!
Whatever you do, you'll be brilliant!
well done bron. you must feel so free. i've only ever quit a job to have a baby. but the job i'm in now is one that i can't quit very easily even if i wanted to. i'm stuck in my family business and even after i actually did quit a little while ago, my dad made me feel so guilty i just went back. i'm in a lose lose situation. it's not too bad there at the moment. but the next situation i can't handle, i'm outta there and never going back. even if they never speak to me again...i've been there for twelve years and my brother drives me cuh-razy! one day i'll be free...hubby is hoping sooner rather than later! good luck with your new journey. i'm sure it will take you to places you never though possible. you'll be wondering why you didn't do it sooner! xx
I know how hard this was for you to do, a huge congratulations! I have quit a job that I loved for very similar reasons. The awfulness of things actually sent me into a really bad place. I've quit several jobs and have never looked back, ever! Big hugs xxx
Good luck!
Sometimes you just need to take a leap of faith, and decend a bit before the ground crumbles beneath you.
Exciting and scary times!
You have to do what's best for you and the family.
My husband is just about to resign too!!! I'm excited and scared too!
Yaaaaaaaaaay for you Bron!
I quit my job last year ... And that job was running my own business! Terrifying ... Freeing .... And very, very necessary.
I've said it before and I will say it again: the options are endless and unlimited. This too is frightening but once you decide what your new direction will be, well how exciting will that be. Can't wait to hear what you decide :)
Wow! I'm sure amazing adventures await you. I am reminded of the words of Dr Suess... "you have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose". I have no doubt that you will do exceptionally well in whatever direction you choose.
GO YOU!! The best things come of new beginnings. You wait, honey, just you wait and see. Perhaps you should pop to adelaide for a little break!! xx
Looking forward to traveling this new road with you as you share on here. Big hugs & congrats to you xx
Yes, I have quit. I had one huge regret about it after though.
Huge.
I should have done it much much sooner.
Enjoy a few moments to yourself in between jobs, because once you start work again you have to work forever to get some annual leave!
That is awesome! I was there... I was pushed rather than quitting, but it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Even the best corporate jobs suck the life out of you - taking the best of you for themselves and leaving your kids, your hubby, your friends with whatever's left over.
I'm really excited for you. I can't wait to hear what your future brings.
A little word of advice... treat the next month or so (or 6) as a sabbatical. You won't regret it!
I blogged about change earlier this week, so much of it is happening around me, in a physical and bloggy sense, too.
My husband is about to go and do what you've done. I'm terrified and trying to be supportive at the same time. Knowing that you've done it too is calming me down.
Massive respect to you for putting YOU first, not your dedication to working for The Man :)
Good on you Bron! Better to roll down the hill than be up shit creek without a paddle. Momentum. That's where the real joy is. xx
wooh, that's a big one!
good for you :-)
I hope one day you publish the Maxabella dictionary because it has the BEST words in it.
'Shenannygoating' is just awesomely cool. I'm SO e-mailing that to the ALP today.
As for the resigning and the nerves, PFFT. I mean, that sounds dismissive, and I don't mean it to, but you are SO gonna shine at whatever comes next.
And I'm so looking forward to reading about it.
x
Go you! I bet you feel relieved! x
Yep, 8mths ago resigned from Nursing after 23yrs...loved it but it did my head in...have not looked back...you will feel fab once you get over the shock...Go Girl xx
Well done to you! I hope the resignation leads to a happier and more fulfilling life for you, sans the shanigans, of course! Enjoy your new life.
You are very brave! Congrats!
I tagged you today!
Brave, awesome and inspiring move Bron. Go you!!
Why do perfectly good jobs have to be so f'@#ed up by *shenanigoating? Why, oh why?
You will land on your feet, I have no doubts about that, and you will start feeling so much more alive once you are out of that toxic environment.
Good luck lovely lady. May there be much light, brightness and brilliance ahead for you.
x
*loving this word.
Wow, very scary and exciting! Good luck :) I haven't done it but I've been thinking about it alot over the last few months. I haven't done it for similar reasons, perhaps a little sad but it feels a bit like part of me and I'm not sure what I'd do without it. Really inspiring post!
Taking a stand for your beliefs will always take you to good places. And following your heart in this one chance at life is the way to go. You will be fine.
X
Good on you! Even though it might feel like a big adjustment just see it as liberation. Think of all the other cool stuff you can do now!
Yes I have and it was the best thing I ever did. Office politics can go suck it. You are free!
I have. And not because I didn't love my job but because of the Powers that be up the top made things unbearable.
I remember the sick feeling in my stomach every single day at the thought of going back. The heaviness on my shoulders.
The immense sense of relief I felt when I quit was sweet. (It was an incredibly emotional time in my life. I'd just gotten my dream job. Turned out to be more nightmarish with the bsos. I'd just gotten engaged to the love of my life, a man who was born to be a father, and couldn't wait to do it. I'd just been told my my specialist I would never have children. It was all just emotional overload and the job had to go.
I hope you're ok. I think you are brave and I think you're going to land right on your feet. I remember that rolling down hills being one of the most fun things I ever did as a kid. :)
Love to you.
What a HUGE step for you! It sounds like you are better off away from the shenannygoats, nonetheless. I'm sure there are amazing things in store for you!!
Oh gosh congratulations! I admire your strength to quit and I know what you mean by politics in huge corporations - shows the absolute worse in people.
I just recently did the same thing, for the same reasons. My last day is 4 May, mostly because I just needed some time to figure out what I was going to do. Not only do I no longer want to work here, or really do the same type of work, but I want to get out of Texas and back to Florida where there is greenery and water and coastal breezes and the smell of salt water. I miss the water. I miss the beaches. I miss being happy at a job.
Its such a good feeling.
I've snatched it from a few jobs (usually for similar reasons, the soul destroying corporate BS)and never looked back.
Good Luck Lady
Wahoo good for you Bron, I'm currently mulling over this dilemma myself, I really don't want to return from maternity leave and having visited them this week was so split in my decision cause I love the people not the job, I have until June but my inner self just thinks it's better and the right thing to do is to tell them sooner rather than later, you just relieved me of some inner guilt I was experiencing...thank you
That must have felt so liberating. Everything happens for a reason, even if the reason isn't crystal clear at first. You'll fly, whatever it is you set out to do xo
Yes, I have. I left a bully boss and never looked back. I had confidence in myself to find something better, and I did. You will too.
Good on you for putting yourself (and your sanity) first.
Congratulations for following your heart. You'll be just fine. xo
I have quit, when the option to continue was no longer manageable. Unfortunately, that was the highest paying job I ever had, with the most benefits and in 10 years I've not found anything better. However, money isn't everything. Good luck in whatever you do next, I wish you many blessings.
Cheryl
Congratulations Bron! It takes a brave person to do that, good for you and I bet everything will be just fine from here on. I know what you mean about corporate & how people behave & are treated, my man comes home everyday in torment, trying to stay emotionally removed, but it's hard when you are simply a good person with ethics & values & even common decency. I was just telling him last might about you on that hill, wondering if this is what you were going to do..good luck lady, you are very inspiring x
Good Luck! Wish I could do what you have done
Yay! Like I said yesterday, there'll always be someone who loves you there to catch you ...
I quit a majorly corporate job in London (my home town) about 16 years ago and moved to Brighton by the sea ... best thing I EVER did ...
... although I'm now working in multinational corporate education so am thinking very strongly about rolling down my own hill pretty soon.
You won't regret it. It gives you space to grow ... xxx
OOOh, would seriously love to bend your ear on this one. Might have to flick you an email.
Well done! I have quit once, for similar reasons. Of course once I quit all the awfulness didn't seem so awful and I thought I'd done the wrong thing. I hadn't. Have never, ever looked back either.
Here's to a new, exciting, wonderful adventure all your own! xx
I quit before. Just before we packed up and moved down here and it was SO liberating to be the one to do the quitting. I've been retrenched, re-employed, re-moved into other positions but quitting is the best thing YOU can do.
Good luck with it all Bron. This is the start of good things, you are too smart and fab to not be snaffled up by someone else, somewhere, or not. Either way it's an adventure. Scary sure, you mostly exciting and in control by YOU.
Brava! x
Fantastic Bron!! Now you can concentrate on what you're really meant to do......the Universe obviously has bigger things for you.
I quit and it was the best thing I did.
Breath!! xx
Sometimes rolling down those hills can leave you a little breathless, a little dizzy and with a few sore spots.
As a very wise man said to me as a devastated seventeen year old who didn't get into the uni course I'd spent my entire life to that point dreaming of, "when one door closes, another always opens".
Truer words never spoken.
All the best to you.
Well done Bron!! That's amazing news. Probably scary, but oh so exciting. Whatever you do next, I know it will be fabulous. xxx
WOW! Yes I have done the same...hated the politics, big business is not for me. Making the decision was just so hard but when I finally did it was freeing. Good on you - such a bloody hard thing to do. xxx
Wowee! Good for you.
I have gone down to 3-4 days a week for the rest of my contract – I just asked today.
Very excited about it and I'm looking forward to my one day a week to do anything I like!!
It will be a brilliant adventure for you. Well done :)
holy moly! such a big step but it sounds like the right one :D
good luck on this big adventure!
xo
Wow! You did it! I wondered if that was coming after the rolling post.
I have done it before, too - I quite a perfectly good, sensible job, where I was even the main breadwinner in our household. Logically speaking, it sounds so stupid! But it's the best thing I've ever done.
Yes, I did question my decision for a while (a long while, actually) and I struggled to define myself afterwards, but once I pushed through that.... ah! Freedom.
Good luck with the exciting path ahead.
In great admiration of you for choosing Quality!! we spend so much time at work - it needs to work for us! Bravo
Good luck hon - I am sure you will find yoru feet in somethign better - whatever form that takes!
I quit my job when we lived in Bangkok because it was a male Christian dominated non-profit that would not let me get ahead as a woman until i had "done my time" and I watched as idiots who were male were given jobs that should have been mine!
It was the first time since I was 14 that I had not worked and I temporarily became relaxed - i worked a few afternoons a week at an ad agency and joined a gym, took a weekly Indian cooking class and grew in other ways.
Here's to a million opportunities for you to chose from. xx
Wow. Good for you, Bron! Look forward to hearing about your next adventures xx
Yay you!
That's a HUGE one!
Whatever comes next: you're ready, you can do it.
Just remember, I got your back.
xx
WOW!!! Well you know that I have done this very thing only recently. I hope you enjoy the time...and all the best with!!!
I like how it flows from the last post you rolled out of dodge.
Well done, something so many of us want to do and are never brave enough to do. If this work is what you want, I'm sure that another opportunity will find you.
That's awesome Bron!! You know we did just that to leave Sydney for Tasmania. Funnily enough, the world continues on. Except we are much happier now. Can't wait to hear more on what your plans may be :-)
Congratulations! It is such a brave move.
I've done it three times. Each was as nerve-wracking as the first. I came close to accepting a counter offer once just to make it all so much easier but look back now and am grateful I didn't fold.
Each move has been onwards and upwards as I'm sure it will be for you.
Kate
I haven't. I need to do now. Kudos for saving your sanity.
I did. I quit my job at the law firm. I loved the job and the work I did, but I was treated very badly. It was a great relief.
Wonderfully liberating Bron and so very Brave.
Congratulations on taking the leap. I love a little bit of the unknown. Makes for intresting times ahead.
xx
Oh wow, that is a big life change, but sometimes you just need to do something like that. Sometimes, no matter how much you love or want something, it's just not worth it in the long run, and it's not healthy to be in that situation. I applaud you for making a change that you know is right for you, and I wish you luck in your future :)
*clapping* Good for you! It's tough leaving a job you love. I had a very similar experience a little over a year ago when I left my workplace of nearly 12 years. I loved many aspects of the job and the people I worked with. But there were other things (people and politics) that were really getting me down, to the point where I couldn't stand it any longer. So I jumped. I haven't looked back.
Good luck to you, no doubt something wonderful will come your way.
I admire your courage and I wish you all the very best in what is next. Whatever that next may be!
Wow! And congratulations for following your guts- after 11 years following one career rut... ermmm... path I decided to jump, and is has been the best professional decision I made. Hope your new directions are similarly rewarding. Enjoy the journey!
You are a wise woman. You know what is right. I sit once for similar reasons to you. It felt good. It was the right thing to do. A bright door has opened. Enjoy!
Hello, I'm catching up... now that's been crossed off your list... don't go insane! There's heaps more fun things to do with your time.
Much as I miss working (and lets face it number one son is almost 15 and I haven't had a FT or even long-term PT job since he was born), there is a kind of freedom in not working too.
Hello, I'm catching up... now that's been crossed off your list... don't go insane! There's heaps more fun things to do with your time.
Much as I miss working (and lets face it number one son is almost 15 and I haven't had a FT or even long-term PT job since he was born), there is a kind of freedom in not working too.
I quit, after a decade in IBM. I didn't realise until after the event quite how much of my sense of self was invested in my corporate role. It was a real shock to the system. Now? It's all good - one of the best things I ever did :) I'll never be going back. I wish you all the best! X
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