I quit my Social Work Position today and I have never felt happier
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Anonymous
+10,000 |
Anonymous
I am the O.P and I really appreciate people like you who understand that happiness matters. |
Anonymous
O.P here I am very positive and a believer that it always works out.I would rather be happy and healthy than work under extreme stress. |
Anonymous
Yeah I don't get why people feel the need to go negative. Let OP celebrate, guys. Just because you or I wouldn't do that doesn't mean that we can't enjoy OP's new found freedom. |
Anonymous
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I wish I had the balls to do this.
Better to do it when you can, once you get a mortgage and children, life can become hopeless. He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach -- that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again. It is artificial and, even then, bought at the price of an obstinate estrangement from oneself and one's history . . . . Stoically he suppresses his horror. He learns to live behind a mask. A lifetime experiment in endurance. A performance over a ruin. American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, p. 81. (1997). Vintage Ed. (1998). |
Anonymous
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OP, new poster here. I am also a social worker who recently resigned to be a SAHM. I went back to school for my master's in social work degree as a second career in my late 30s, and now feel that it was a mistake to do so. I loved the idea of getting a degree that combined my interest in helping people with psychology. I wanted to get my LCSW and work as a therapist.
After I got my MSW, I worked for 5 years in a job that started out as my dream job and ended up stressing me out and causing me to dread going into work. I resigned from that job after 5 years and am now a SAHM. I enjoyed the nature of the work for the most part, but not the work environment. I think about going back into the field but I'm not sure I want to. I feel that the MSW was a mistake, especially as a second career, and I wish I could go back and pursue a different graduate degree. This has been getting me down a lot lately. Have you thought about other ways to use your MSW? I'm thinking about getting into public speaking and writing in the field that I worked in in my job (specialized area). |
Anonymous
Jealousy, while not the most admirable of emotions, is far preferable to your staggering unkindness. Wow. |
Anonymous
NP to this thread. I understand your reaction to the bolded comment, but really, I think the attorney and some of the others who seem to be outright wishing that OP suffer financial ruin are at least as unkind. I grew up lower to lower middle class. I went to a great school with the help of financial aid and then went to graduate school in a field (not social welfare) that, like the OP, I thought I'd love. I've worked hard over many years and am doing great financially, but I've grown to dislike my boss and many of the people I work with. I do not have the stomach to continue to work hard at my stressful job, produce great results, and deal with the constant politicking in my work group. Most of my colleagues have learned that the fastest way to get what you want with our boss is to complain and actively participate in whispering campaigns against others. I think I may be through. I'm certainly planning my exit. I will probably not work for a while, at least a year. I feel as though the stress will eventually kill me or at least take a severe toll on my health, and at some point a person has to say enough. My self-preservation instinct isn't completely gone yet, although I think I've had to suppress it to have last as long as I have in this position. |