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On Friday, I Quit Google – Here’s Why
October 8, 2014 by Michael Peggs
Read more at http://www.careerealism.com/quit-google-friday/#VvGMi6TywBuGxRZe.99
This isn’t the first time I quit my job, but it will be the last. Honestly,
saying goodbye to Google was supposed to happen a year ago. And six months
before that. If you ask my friends, they’ll tell you that I’m kidding
myself and Google is too good to let go. They’re right, but I promise you
that this is it. On October 3rd, I quit.
Is Google all it’s cracked up to be? No. It’s better.
The grass is greenest at the Googleplex, and I don’t have to bore you with
the perks because they’ve been documented ad nauseum. I’m willing to bet
my stock that no company treats their employees better, but it comes at a
cost. My frat brother said something once that stuck with me, “The grass
may be greener, but you better believe the water bill is a lot higher!”
He was right.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m dealing with first world problems, but they’re
problems nonetheless. The challenge with Google, and any great company, is
complacency. You sacrifice tomorrow’s potential for today’s pleasure.
Yes, I’m too comfortable (free food and personal masseuses, anyone?)
And life is too convenient (chauffeured shuttles with Wi-Fi to work? Yes
please!)
But we’re too young to settle.
Be honest: do you love what you do? Probably not because most of us don’t
enjoy our 9-to-5. I started on Wall Street and when I tell you I hated life,
I HATED LIFE. Anyone that says they enjoy the long hours and indentured
servitude that investment banking brings is lying to you.
Then again, we lie to ourselves everyday. The idea that you and I were meant
to sit and stare at a computer screen all day is just wrong. But the road
to what’s right is remote.
Here’s what it takes to quit your high paying job in pursuit of your dreams
in a city as expensive as New York: ditching dinner with friends, lots of
cheap beer, saving more than you spend, building a business on the side,
five hours of sleep a night, no vacations, missing family functions,
skipping weekend weddings, moving from Manhattan – and dating? No time, and
couldn’t afford it anyways.
Who wants to do all that?
Who wants to give so much not knowing what they’ll get??
Who wants to sacrifice everything for the slim chance they could have
anything???
Not me, but what I want doesn’t matter. To get this far I learned that
there’s a difference between want and need. The secret? Self-control.
Building my blog has been my dream, and it’s taken more than a days work.
It’s taken a few years to be in a position to leave my day job and I’ve
been willing to wait.
“If you can wait and not be tired by waiting” ~Rudyard Kipling
Today’s timing isn’t perfect, and it never will be. You will always need
more money and a perfect plan is hard to come by. What I know now is that
today will never be the right time to lose the weight, start that business
or find a new job. Neither will tomorrow.
Delays cast doubt, and you wind up disputing if it even makes sense to begin.
YES!
Make moves.
The reason why is simple: you are the CEO of your life. The decisions you
make today will set the course of things to come. Do something today that
will pay dividends down the road. I read once that you should do one thing
every day that scares you. I can’t remember the last time I pushed past my
limits.
What I know now is that you’ll never reach your potential until you assume
some level of risk.
It doesn’t have to be your job, but leave something behind starting today.
Stop settling for what’s good enough and make room for what’s great.
In time, what will you give up?
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