I made the decision to quit my job, something that everyone does, what's new about me doing it? It's not the decision I'm emphasizing on, nor the process, I'm here to focus on why we feel like quitting a job regardless of how beneficial it is to us. Read on to know what I've experienced and realised that goes into quitting.
There are two excruciatingly important steps that one discovers much later in life about why we took the chance and performed the action that we did, and here's how we run through them:
1) Your gut let's you know:
There will come a time when you'll just want to quit, it could be your job, a side hustle, a project that you're working on, a relationship or anything that you're currently working on. You'll try and explain to yourself that you're not happy as you expected yourself to be, you're not enjoying, this isn't what was in your mind when you first came in. But, the truth remains, your inner instinct knows, somehow, that you don't belong here anymore, and more importantly your gut gives you a strong feeling that you have a better purpose to serve that will satisfy you. It's highly common for most of us to quit during this phase, while highly unsure of why we're even doing so, but we end up quitting anyway.
2) Realising what is wrong and why it was/is bad for you:
In cases like these, which is mostly what happens, also what happened to me, but again not everyone has these insights. We have now quit our job and moved on and then we hear ourselves say, "If I had continued working there, I wouldn't have made it" or "If I had continued working there, I wouldn't be happy like I am today, I wouldn't feel the satisfaction and content that I feel today."
These are just the top layers, the covers, the tip of the iceberg, because deep inside our conscience is where the real answer lies. Let me tell you my story from when I was working and I quit. I was working in a luxury automobile dealership as a sales consultant, that's right, my first job that lasted for 4 months. That's something people wouldn't give up on, because they'd love bragging about it. Honestly, I thought so too when I started my job and ended up repeating the same reasons mentioned above after quitting. The realisation hit me when I was working along with a startup and it was around five months into the startup and after I had actually quit my job. I didn't think of why I couldn't perform to my fullest or stay unhappy and leave back then, but come to this day, I understood that I didn't control the sale, every customer has been through the same path that I had just begun on, they only cared about how much money they'd have to pour out on the car, which was the decision of the dealership and the manager to make, I was merely a middleman passing on the pricing details from dealership to customer and the bargains the other way. I could convince my customers to take a test drive, explain every feature of the car, and when it came down to closing the deal, the only thing I could do was tell them that we care about them and the car and that we would give them better service compared to the competitive dealership. Lowering the price wasn't my decision to make. I explained it to myself that decision making grows proportionally with responsibility. My ability to take more risks, be more flexible and choose tasks with responsibility was restricted and that limitation wasn't letting me grow as the person I wanted to become. Even when you don't know why you quit, just wait it out, dig deep into yourself and you'll arrive at the reasoning to why you chose to do what you chose to do.
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