Why It's Time To Quit Your Job

Take this job and shove it.
Are you starting to feel like a commodity rather than a person? Are you getting the impression that although your employer demands your loyalty and professionalism at all times there seems to be a double standard? Do you live in constant anxiety because you aren’t sure if your job is secure? Does your professional life feel like you’re playing a losing game on an unfair playing field?
You are not alone. There seems to be growing animosity between those perceived 1 per centers and good old Average Joe. In a culture focused on monetary reward as the ultimate bottom line, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Percent have utilized a variety of savvy methods that have reduced reliance on poor Joe– who is now scrambling  just to stay in the game.
Annie Lowrey reported the following in in a post from The New York Times Economix blog.
The top 1 percent took more than one-fifth of the income earned by Americans, one of the highest levels on record since 1913, when the government instituted an income tax.
The figures underscore that even after the recession the country remains in a new Gilded Age, with income as concentrated as it was in the years that preceded the Depression of the 1930s, if not more so.
So we get it right? There is a feeling of “us and them”. Some of us are mad about it and rebel. We buy t-shirts that advocate island living and complete personal freedom… (yeah… a Jimmy Buffet life sounds good to me too sometimes.) On the other extreme, some of us do everything we can to climb the ladder that promises such grand financial reward. We become willing participants in our own demise. We sacrifice our families, our values, our time, and our authentic self in the pursuit of a happiness that seems forever out of reach.
If you have a job shouldn’t you be petrified to leave it given the current level of economic uncertainty? Isn’t it better to be miserable with a pay check? Isn’t all this business about a happy employment situation just for unrealistic new grads?

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