Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You'll always regret it.
I don't care if I ever work in TV again.
When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.
Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.
He resigned from the IRS.
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this question: “Do I respect the work I’m doing?” If the answer to the latter question is NO, then the answer to the former question will probably be NO too. If this is the case, wait a few weeks, then ask yourself the same two questions. If the answers are still NO, quit.
It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.
I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.
It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.
I've always had a good time in bands, and when I wasn't having a good time, I left.
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.
If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!
I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving.
The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don't know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, 'I can't do this.' It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.
Television does devour you because you have all sorts of responsibilities, and I really needed to renew myself. I think I owed it to myself. So I honored myself and quit. I think that's a wonderful way to put it.
