Jeffrey Lockwood

And you're thinking, well, there's a ceiling.

I'm never going to get to ascend in this company.

That's a good reason to quit.

What am I going to quit?

The question is, do I have to quit the entire job or could I move, say, to another department?

But then the other question that we all have to ask is once we got that part done, the question is how to quit.

And I've seen people who have quit for the right reasons at the right time and in the right amount, and then they botch how to quit.

Because they do it and they burn bridges, they insult others, they create unnecessary trauma and stress.

Maybe they quit very publicly, hoping to embarrass the company.

It can be a really disastrously bad move to do that out of anger.

Oh, I think that's right.

You know, the other thing you mentioned about, and it sounds like you grew up in a family very much like mine, you know, the message was you don't quit.

You know, you just don't quit.

You hang in there.

And one of the things that's important about quitting, important to think about in quitting, is that what we do in our lives shapes our identity, who we are.

And so quitting also shapes our identity.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't put up with or I'm the kind of person who gives up too easily or whatever the case is.

So both persistence and quitting shape our identity.

That's kind of inescapable.

And then upon reflection, you think, is this the kind of person who I want to be?