Mike Carruthers

And, you know, and that's always a tough one because, you know, it's easier to get another job if you've already got one.

And but the job you have may just be horrible.

So it's really hard.

When is it a lost cause?

That's kind of a key question, isn't it?

When do you decide this is never going to get better, it's never going to be right, it's time to go?

And usually it seems like you have to get hit in the head a few times before it finally dawns on you that, you know, this isn't going to get better.

But so quitting probably shouldn't be your first reaction, right?

You know, I was just thinking about this as you were talking, because I hadn't thought about this in a long time.

Because I was raised in a family, you know, my father always said, you know, you got to stick it out.

You can't just walk away, you know, that's not what real men do.

But I had a job once.

I got hired for a job that I thought I really wanted.

And as soon as I got in there and I hadn't even started yet, but I was training, I was learning how to do what I was supposed to do.

I just got such a bad vibe and also realized that my hope was one day to like work my way up the ladder.

I was starting not at the bottom, but I wasn't.

This was not a job I really wanted, but this is how you had to get up the ladder.

And then I realized, well, the people up the ladder had been there for a long time and they never leave.

They're never going to go and I'm going to be stuck down here and I don't like these people.

And I quit before I started.