Quitting your job is never easy. It is harder when it’s a public spectacle. My employer offered us, me and Anna, a lot of severance in January when it became apparent we weren’t interested in staying and working for that company any longer than the two-ish weeks we’d already been there. It didn’t occur to us in that moment that we should take the money, which could have paid off all of my student loans and my credit card debt and my rent for the rest of my lease and still leave me enough money to have a very healthy “savings account” for the first time in my life. But that money, like most large amounts of money being handed to you with the veneer of benevolence, comes conditionally. So we didn’t take the money. And we quit our jobs. And because we didn’t take the money, we were able to say very clearly why we quit our jobs.
on quitting your media job
on quitting your media job
on quitting your media job
Quitting your job is never easy. It is harder when it’s a public spectacle. My employer offered us, me and Anna, a lot of severance in January when it became apparent we weren’t interested in staying and working for that company any longer than the two-ish weeks we’d already been there. It didn’t occur to us in that moment that we should take the money, which could have paid off all of my student loans and my credit card debt and my rent for the rest of my lease and still leave me enough money to have a very healthy “savings account” for the first time in my life. But that money, like most large amounts of money being handed to you with the veneer of benevolence, comes conditionally. So we didn’t take the money. And we quit our jobs. And because we didn’t take the money, we were able to say very clearly why we quit our jobs.