How Often Do You Fantasize About Quitting? – Corporette.com

Here’s a weird question for you: how often do you fantasize about quitting — and what would you do instead? How has it gone when you actually have quit previous jobs?

I started thinking about this because I saw a story in Fortune (via MSN) that “nearly half of employees say they dread coming to work at least once a week.” Been there!

For my own $.02… I remember fantasizing so much about quitting one of my first jobs (as an EA at Family Circle magazine) that I can still remember being in the elevator lobby on the magazine’s floor and feeling a sense of dread as I used my keycard to enter the office — this was before I could quit, but it seemed like daily I would fantasize about going to the EIC and saying definitively, “I QUIT!”

It’s been so many years now, but whenever the thought “I should just quit” pops up in my head, that’s the mental imagery I have during that thought — being about to enter the FC office and feeling dread, mixed with the power fantasy of quitting dramatically.

The hilarious thing is that even though I couldn’t wait to quit that job (and go to law school), my actual resignation was super emotional. Tears may have been involved, along with lots of expressions of gratitude? I have, of course, blocked that part out except for the immense shame that I was so emotional during the resigning. (And now I look back on the job fondly!)

{here’s our last discussion on crying at work}

(If you’re curious, I’m really happy being a full time blogger… I have no plans to quit at present or even fantasies of quitting…)

How about you, readers — how often do you fantasize about quitting your situation? Do you fantasize about quitting your job, or quitting your entire career? How detailed in your head does it get — what you’ll do instead, how you’ll resign your job? Will you go out in a blaze of glory and tell them everything wrong with the job? (We actually don’t advise quitting in a blaze of glory… but this is your fantasy!)

Psst: here’s how to write a resignation letter, what to say in a goodbye email, and the best practices for giving notice.

Stock photo via Stencil.