kiesselbach

I want to add that being unemployed can produce unexpected shifts in your mindset. A certain desperation sets in. You become more socially isolated due to severing connections with coworkers. A lot of “friends” will subtly inch away from you because relationships are often built on what you can extract from the other person, and now you have less to offer them. Besides now you don’t want to talk to them anyways because you are ashamed. Will your girlfriend / spouse still respect you? That is to say I don’t recommend. There is a distinction between quitting a job triumphantly and in good spirits versus quitting out of desperation. The latter should be avoided.

Read my post about contract jobs if you do quit and have trouble finding something new.

Why not just start slacking off hard? What are they going to do, fire you?! You want to quit anyways. I would say do not quit before having another job. Most likely you will slack off and it will go unnoticed because the need to overwork yourself is in your head.

Work as a contractor. Go to dice.com and upload your resume. I have never felt more solidarity with the workers. We fuck around all day, smoke breaks, ping pong, etc. It’s a solid 90k/year minimum. Yes it’s temp, doesn’t have long term potential, but if you’re a US citizen they don’t have the same control over you. If you get fired, there’s a million more contract roles. These contracting companies are often exploiting legal realities where hiring US citizens lets them get more visas. There is even the concept of “sitting on the bench” while they try to place you in a company. My friends have literally “sat on the bench” (ie, stay at home, do nothing, and get full pay) for 6-12 consecutive months.

I would immediately quit if I found myself working in such a discriminatory/ toxic environment.

I spent one year researching this space and making my own cross platform todo app.

After all that time I reached the conclusion that a simple text file is the best solution. I have it sync to dropbox and use it every day.