TOW #21 - Quit Your Job

Barbara Hagerty, contributor to the Atlantic, wants you, a middle aged person, to quit your job. She backs up this claim with irrefutable scientific research and personal experience, giving her argument a great deal of clout. Hagerty's claim holds true - you should quit your job if you find it tiring and aimless, and move onto something new and exciting. This should be done for a variety of reasons. Firstly, those who change jobs or even find meaning or continue to learn new things in their work generally are mentally healthier, but are also physically healthier, dying at a later time in their lives and are less susceptible to heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimers. Furthermore, people who switch to new jobs are generally happier workers, and it gets them through the lull that many who are middle aged experience. Furthermore, hating one's job should cause the to change it, why stick with a career that you despise or makes you hate your entire life? People who work at jobs they do not like are more likely to come under the influence of depression, and again, they are generally unhealthier than those who do like their jobs. So quit your day job. Do what you love full time. You will be happier, live longer, and live better, all reasons to change your career and move unto something superior to it. Fears about being unsuccessful and failing, those are all possibilities. However, being unhappy versus seeking new opportunity and pursuing what you love should not be a question. The journey will be worth the outcome, and you will come out a more seasoned and better person because of it. So do it, quit that boring job, and pursue your wildest dreams, your body, mind, and soul will thank you for it.