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Why You Should Leave The Job You Feel Stuck At

Sometimes it's OK to be a quitter.

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"I can't leave, I need this job."

"I can't quit, I only have a five-minute commute."

"So what if this job makes me feel worthless and depressed, I have school and bills to pay for."

Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.

Steve Jobs said, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." There may be someone out there who would love to be doing the type of job you're doing. Someone who dreams of being chained to a desk in a four-by-four office space running around getting coffee for your degrading and pompous arse of a boss. Someone who gets up and strives for the monotony of staring at a computer screen all day, waiting for some type of instruction to actually be useful. But maybe that someone isn't you...and that's OK.

If you're not cut out for your job, leave.

School, bills, financial issues, loans, etc. may be a good reason to be a responsible adult, but that in no way is a good enough reason for you to feel depressed because you feel like you're in a work environment where you're lost, where you don't belong, where you just can't seem to meet their expectations.

I don't promote quitting, and if this was you're career and your passion, then my advice would be completely different. However, if you're a twenty-something college student just trying to make ends meet so you can get a degree without being homeless and you feel stuck at a job that makes you want to beat your head against the wall, then throw out your copy of the poem "Don't Quit" by Edgar A. Guest and quit.

We're in our 20s, this is our time to be selfish and to enjoy life, because honestly let's face it, are we going to be getting any younger? We'll have our entire lives to be stuck at a job we'll most likely not be able to stand, so why are we wasting thirty hours a week on a job that makes us feel miserable?

It's okay to not be good at something. Not everyone can be a receptionist, or a server, or a cashier. Not everyone can do certain types of jobs. So if you're working in an environment that constantly makes you feel like you can't do anything right, put on your grown-up pants, grab some coffee, and start applying to other jobs like crazy. Does that make you a quitter? No. It makes you a realist. The depression rate is much too high for millennials to be voluntarily working in depressing environments.

We are never stuck. We are our own worst enemy.

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