Column Chronicles: Seven signs that you should quit your job

Seven signs that you should quit your job

Frank Cotolo
July 2, 2015

If you are struggling with how you make a living, the time may have come for you to quit your job. That is a scary option to most people, since quitting a job immediately affects your income, not to mention your ability to buy certain groceries.

A group of top-notch guidance councilors, along with a team of mediocre psychologists got together over lunch, split the bill and came up with seven major signs that indicate you should quit your job. With their cooperation, we are going to display the list in this blog. We advise readers to read with an open mind, since many people who should quit their jobs are in full denial, absorbed in the fear that such an action naturally delivers, especially for those with no skills or talents.

1. If you wake up in the middle of the night and immediately think something like, "It's only a few hours until I have to go to get up and the thought of getting up is stressful," then it is safe to say that you are not looking forward to the day ahead. Of course if the day ahead is a Saturday and you don't work on weekends, you may not have to quit your job. Be aware of interrupted sleep that includes sweating, dry heaves, cold fingertips, rapid heart beating and a strong urge to eat Mexican food.

2. When you come home after a day's work and feel cranky and irritable and cannot distinctly separate the cranky from the irritable feelings, it may be because the work day produced significant feelings of disdain about the job that could not be expressed at the job. If you live with someone, return home after work and say things like, "I want a raise" to him or her, you may be misplacing your anger. Be aware of counting down each minute passing until you leave work, swearing into urinals as you dispose of bodily waste, tightening your belt after lunch and an unexplainable craving for inhaling helium.

3. If you have a consistent sense of weariness, even when you are not at your job, you may be depressed about spending most of your waking hours at work. Becoming tired when you are not doing anything is the key to being aware that you should not become tired while being stagnant, stationary or inanimate. Although chronic laziness may be due to a serious blood disease or brain malfunctions that have not been diagnosed, most of the time it comes from people who hate their jobs.

4. Many people take more abuse than they should at their jobs, becoming victims of verbal abuse, sexual harassment or people pointing directly at them while laughing. If you are tolerating bad treatment from co-workers and people who don't work for the company but make it a point to drop by just to be mean, it is time to decide you do not deserve such treatment from anyone.

Did I originally mention seven signs? Well, if you need three more signs beyond the ones listed above, you may be hopelessly trapped in you current job.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.