Honestly I think quitting without a plan was the best move I ever made

I walked out of my accounting job with nothing lined up last March and everyone told me I was crazy, but the next Friday I got a call from a small landscaping company that paid me $18 an hour to work outside. Has anyone else done a total blind jump and had it work out weirdly better than the safe route?

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kelly.keith13d ago

Honestly is it really that serious though? Like yeah you walked out of a job you hated and landed something better a week later, but that's more luck than a strategy. Not everyone has a landscaping gig waiting for them around the corner.

emma_mitchell13d ago

Three years ago I quit a retail job with no backup at all and slept on my friend's couch for two months before finding anything decent. @kelly.keith the thing is nobody is saying it's a one-size-fits-all strategy. But acting like walking out of a toxic job is purely luck based misses the bigger picture. When you hate your job that much your brain and body are already telling you something's wrong. Even if you don't have another gig lined up right away staying in that spot can wreck your health and confidence way worse than a temporary financial hit. And honestly the landscaping gig I landed was mostly because I had worked for that guy one summer in high school and he remembered me being reliable. That's not luck that's keeping up old connections and being willing to call in a favor. So yeah maybe it's not a safe move for everyone but calling it just luck ignores all the active choices people make to get out of bad situations.