quit your job: escape to a new life

"It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude." Steve Pavlina

"There are many ways to make money in this world. By far the most common is trading hours for dollar, also known as a job. Maybe it’s the fact that I have never held a job for more than a year of my entire life, but I just can’t understand why people would choose to make their income this way."

http://www.johnchow.com/trading-hours-for-dollars/

Once I worked 50-60 hour weeks for an IT vendor. I spent weekend time traveling; I spent 50 or even 100 nights per year away from home; and missed a fair chunk of my son’s first four years. My aspirations changed as I got older and had family, and the company changed too. It had ceased to be fun. At times it got downright Dilbertesque.

How an IT Guy Found Job Freedom
by Rob England

An inspirational article on making the move. The original article that coalesced the thinking behind this very website, ttjasi.com!

How Secure is Your IT Technical Career?
by Rob England

Here's an article to put the wind up complacent geeks.

Strategies For Securing Your IT Career
by Rob England

Ideas to help geeks building a career.

Geeks and the Meaning of Life
by Rob England

Originally (and better) titled "What Matters". Not about geeks at all.

7 You are afraid of the unknown

You are worried about not knowing what will happen to you. You can drive half-a-ton of steel at sixty miles an hour inches away from other vehicles, and trust their drivers to do the same. You can purchase and eat food that you didn’t see being cooked. You can enter a convenience store after nightfall. You regularly plug and unplug cables carrying 120 volts (or 240 volts) of lethal electricity. Heck, you pipe the stuff through a pad in your bed. But changing jobs is really dangerous.

6 It is comfortable where you are.

The Triumph of the Airheads
by Shelley Gare
Park Street Press
ISBN 1 876624 54 X

Contains the occasional Australian-ism that may puzzle overseas readers, but this book is a brilliant expose of the rampant stupidity of the world at the new millenium.

If you wondered why you can't stomach the HR department, or all your managers seem to be idiots, read this book.

The Trusted Advisor
Maister, Green and Galford
Simon & Shuster
ISBN 0-743-1234-7

If you plan to go out on your own as a consultant, READ THIS BOOK.