# So I quit my job yesterday. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277 "2003-04-17T11:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/1 "2003-04-17T11:40:18Z")
Yup, that’s about it. Gave my two week notice. My last day will be just shy of my 3 year 9 month anniversary at this company. Feels kinda good. Damn good, actually. Once those two weeks are up, oh, the stories I’ll have to tell. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/2 "2003-04-17T11:42:31Z")
Got another job yet? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/3 "2003-04-17T11:48:28Z")
Where is this job you quit? What kind of job was it? May I have it if you don’t want it? I’ve been unemployed for far too long. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/4 "2003-04-17T11:50:57Z")
Not yet, **welby**. Last night I looked for my old resume, couldn’t find it, and wrote a new one. Considering that my last resume was nothing but “graduated from college, had a bunch of summer jobs”, this one is a little beefier. Up in Minnesota, **LouisB** , doing quality assurance for an e-commerce outsourcing company. If you want to relocate up here and have several years of QA experience, they’ll snap you up in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/5 "2003-04-17T12:30:13Z")
So will your new job let you fore-eat? That would be so cool! Of course that’s pretty much limited to circusses, sideshows and festivals (oh! and RenFests!) so you might have to knock out a few teeth and get tattoos. No plan is perfect. Good luck and happiness at your new gig. (Whatever it is, but hopefully soon.) ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/6 "2003-04-17T12:31:38Z")
“Fore-eat”, “Fire-eat”. Whatever. Great big balls of fire shooting from your face. That’s what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/7 "2003-04-17T12:33:30Z")
Wow. A big step. Luck finding a new position - one that you will enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/8 "2003-04-17T12:35:25Z")
You know I support you. WITH PLANKS. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/9 "2003-04-17T12:41:25Z")
Are you going to stay in MN or looking for a new start elsewhere? I ask because I’m in talks with a firm in North Carolina and I’m on the fence about the move. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/10 "2003-04-17T12:49:50Z")
I’m staying where I am, **JC**. I like the Mpls area and the job market is pretty good. Over the years at my current (soon to be previous) job, I’ve managed to make quite a number of friends and acquaintances who have left the company as well. I’d be surprised if I’m still hunting for a job by mid-May. Famous last words, of course, but money won’t be an issue for a few months (more famous last words) so I can be picky about jobs for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/11 "2003-04-17T12:53:46Z")
Good for you. I hope you do well. And come play Diplomacy sometime again, for cryin’ out loud. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/12 "2003-04-17T13:16:11Z")
May the pork and beer flow freely, my friend. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/13 "2003-04-17T13:46:57Z")
**lno**! Congratulations, friend. Good luck on finding a new jobby-job. We’re all pulling for you. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*You know I support you. > > WITH PLANKS. \*\* For a minute, I thought she wrote **WITH PLANES** I was like, dang! That **Francesca** is a badass! Let me add my name to the list of supporters. You know _I_ support you. WITH PORK ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/14 "2003-04-17T14:01:48Z")
I may not support you with pork/planes/planks/any other “P” word, but I support you! 😉 Good luck with the jobhunt. ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/15 "2003-04-17T15:05:41Z")
Good luck with the jobhunt, lno! We’ll have to throw you a “Happy Quitter Party” when you’re next in Ottawa! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/16 "2003-04-17T16:17:35Z")
This is a very good move, and you know it. Congratumalations. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/17 "2003-04-17T16:20:35Z")
If nothing pans out, will you come down here for a few weeks and pour me a new patio? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/18 "2003-04-17T17:10:55Z")
Sure, **Cranky**. How much will you pay, and can I bring my dog? Mm. Nine working days left. I’m actually being nostalgic now. I remember when I started here on Wednesday, August 4th, 1999 at 3:00 pm. _Meeeeeemooriiiiieesss… alllll alone in the seeeerverrrrr faaaaaarm…_ ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/19 "2003-04-17T17:33:01Z")
I want to hear the stories. Do they involve Pork? ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277/20 "2003-04-17T17:33:25Z")
Wow, quitting a job w/out having a replacement. I don’t think I could do that nowadays. It’s probably been a decade since I did such a thing. Count me in the supporters side of things, and give a jingle if you need someone to spot you a beer or two. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-quit-my-job-yesterday/169277.md?page=2)