Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Why do people get attacked for quitting? | Julia Keller" video.

  1. An observation to that: They made it much harder in the US to quit a job especially those with mid to heigher wages. They bind your pension to it, maybe stock options, they bind your healthcare to it, benefits like parental leave, the place you live, the school your kids can go to and the quality of the schools resulting from it. All designed to "keep you locked in" and potentially to accept worse conditions, harder requests and maybe not as much wage because you fear to lose all of those benefits. And it doesn't end there. The welfare system is designed to make it hard for you to be without work. So quitting is always connected to a risk when you cannot immediatly start another job because there is barely a social net. This also keeps you more docile to your superiors in fear of loosing your job and a chilling effect of you asking for stuff.
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  2. I wonder if the stigma of quitting in the anglosphere also has something to do with the language. Other languages have different words for ending your job and "giving up" which gives quitting a different undertone. You not see it as "giving up" but as finding a better opportunity or as said ending one path to begin another.
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  3. You have to live your own life. There is no rulebook how life is supposed to be even if culture, society and sometimes parents or relatives give you the impression you have to follow a specific pattern. You have only a limited time in this existence. Live every day as if it is your last (within reason) because one day it is and noone knows when that is. Find work and activities you really like and in which you are good at or want to be good at no matter what it is, things which makes you leaving the bed in the morning. If helping people with the law brings you satisfaction and fullfillment go for it if you only do it for money and would rather do something else and you see it more as a chore clients may notice and the quality might suffer and you are not really happy in life. With passion usually comes engagement and this in turn raises quality and effectiveness which usually lead to success. And find a way to avoid that you only live to work. Balance is key. If you not know what experiment. Test things out try new activities until you find things you love and enjoy it while you can.
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