Should I quit my job?

Jesus Christ, redux.

 

Great, another person who has a problem with me for no apparent reason.

 

For the most part yes. When I look at a candidate, I have to wonder (1) will they be an asset? (2) do they fit in (3) do they want to be here? and (4) can we do better?

Unemployment doesn't help in either of those.

 

Still can’t hit a curveball.

 

If you're gonna keep warbling about it to strangers on a message board, then, yes, you should quit your job. Right away.

Go find something, anything!, that might make you happier at some point. Report back to us then. ... Thanks in advance.

 

That was my life preserver after journalism closed its door. You can always type ... that gets your foot in the door ... then climb from there.

My credo was "Fuck lifting anything heavy." And I got within a month of my severance package running out before my 21st interview clicked and was something I wanted.

 

I quit a job right after college without anything lined up (kids: it’s not advised) and scored high on the government typing tests — somewhere in the 90s. In hindsight I wish I’d gone after those gigs harder; I didn’t want to give up on the journalism thing yet and stayed in the biz, and the starting pay was a wash. This was before the industry imploded. Had I taken a county job, I’d now be halfway to retirement practically.

 

That is one thing that makes me jealous, is the retirement that state/county workers get. I just did a story on a basketball coach taking a job at a private school. He's only 56 and has been in semi-retirement, coaching but not teaching, for four years already because he started in the public school system straight out of college and got his 30 years in. The same private school has at least one other coach in the same situation, around the same age.
I'm 42 and I'll probably be working until I'm dead.

 

Life is not measured by wealth or how long you work, but by sense of worth and happiness.

 

True, but I'd be a lot happier and be able to develop a better sense of self worth if I was able to retire when I was 52.

 

And be able to occasionally make it rain.

 

That was my thinking in staying in journalism. I was young and naive. Had I been able to see the disaster the last 12 or 13 years have been in the industry, that would've changed my viewpoint.