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[animentality]

[incognitopolls]

If you won a million US dollars tomorrow, would you quit your job?

Yes, immediately

Yes, but I'd phase myself out instead of quitting immediately

No, but I'd work less

No, I wouldn't change how much I work

I don't have a job, currently looking for one; I would stop looking

I don't have a job, currently looking for one; I'd still look, but less hard

I don't have a job, currently looking for one; I'd still look just as hard

I don't have a job/can't work/am not looking for one

Voting ended onFeb 13

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[yesterdaysprint]

The Weekly Industrial Worker, Seattle, Washington, April 6, 1918

[buonbella]

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[bouncy-tea]

Work selfie

[seaoftea83]

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

The Cost of Staying

Sometimes it’s not that you didn’t want the job.

It’s that you wanted it too much. And now you're floating down some corporate river. Toward the wrong end of The Waterfall (TM).

You worked too hard. Put up with too much. Got good at things you never thought you’d be good at. Found your rhythm. Found your people. Maybe even started to believe you belonged there.

And then it changed.

Or maybe it didn’t. Maybe it was always like this and you just finally let yourself admit that the cost was too high.

That staying meant watching someone else get away with it. And shrinking a little bit each day. Or carrying your own silence like it was professionalism. Like it was maturity. Even strength.

But here’s the truth no one wants to put on a poster: Sometimes leaving is the only way to protect yourself.

And that doesn’t mean you failed. It doesn’t mean you weren’t strong enough. It means the place wasn’t safe enough.

And maybe that’s not the ending you deserved, but it’s not the end of your story either (the waterfall).