30 People Who Quit Their Job This Year Reveal What Pushed Them Over The Line

Quit because teaching in a pandemic SUCKS. Now I stay at home with my toddler and my stress level is so much lower!

I quit because of the commute and feeling unappreciated while getting paid too little. It wasn’t just one thing but I wanted to work somewhere that at least paid okay and was not a 1.5 hour commute each way. So yeah that is why I quit.

Call center work sucks. I was tired of having to ask when I could go to the bathroom and having to tally it on a timer as a "bio break." You had to instant message another team to ask if it was ok to get up from your desk. Bye Felicia. I'm in the same field but work in a face to face setting now.

I quit a fast food place to work in an office. I have a much better environment to work in, a schedule I make myself, weekends and nights always off unless I choose to work from home for extra money, a $3 raise (I’m an intern and making more than the managers at my old job who worked 55 hour weeks), and a 401k. My old manager loves to complain that no one wants to work these days, but I know all the people who have left my old job. Two of us went to better opportunities and all the rest moved away for college.

I worked as a nurse for 10 years. Compassion fatigue and COVID burnout prompted me to leave the field. Probably forever. I’m living with my parents and taking the time to figure out what I want to do. I may go back to school for a different career path.

The commute. The lack of acknowledgment for the previous 6 years of hard work. The overuse injuries. The body aging and not as resilient in healing said injuries (physically active job in the hard alcohol industry). The company restructuring in response to COVID and supply-chain issues, resulting in most of my peers and those who direct-reported to me losing their jobs. The demands of those vacated roles and responsibilities being passed on to the three of us left (in addition to our already over-burdened schedule).

I grew tired of it and decided not to continue to support the company. Thankfully I have a nice nest egg saved and a supportive spouse. Would rather support my spouse, work on home repairs, and love on friends and family that we haven’t seen much of thanks to Covid. My priorities have changed.

Thus I said ‘see ya and good luck’ to my former boss… who understood the litany of reasons.

I quit my teaching job after 6 years for various reasons but primarily because of the commute and the ever growing ridiculous demands / expectations by administrators and parents.

I’ll be starting a government job soon and I couldn’t be happier.

I quit because I was contracting and was told I would be hired after 6 months, but that didn’t happen. So now I’m contracting for a different company.

I actually was working my a** off for a company that lied to us all then laid off 80% of us. I am working for a hardware chain now and enjoy it most of the time.

I’m about to quit my job but it’s because I am about to get an offer for a new job. I’m leaving because my bosses are terrible pieces of s**t who made up s**t about me in an attempt to get me fired because I filed a complaint against her.