I quit my job today!

Senusret I · #1 10-07-2006, 12:04 PM

Thank you.......I really appreciate it, guys.

I am really excited about the trip and even more excited to be able to continue writing and publishing (it suffered for the past six months).

I'll be substitute teaching again, too, so I will still get to work with kids while continuing to lay foundations for my career as a writer/speaker/etc.

I will definitely keep GC posted, as I always do.

CrimsonTide4 · #2 10-07-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

Thank you.......I really appreciate it, guys.

I am really excited about the trip and even more excited to be able to continue writing and publishing (it suffered for the past six months).

I'll be substitute teaching again, too, so I will still get to work with kids while continuing to lay foundations for my career as a writer/speaker/etc.

I will definitely keep GC posted, as I always do.

Peace of mind is priceless plus this speaking engagement is crucial to your career as a writer and speaker, so never fear the decision that will benefit you in the long run.

Best wishes at OU in a few weeks.

Sister Havana · #3 10-07-2006, 01:19 PM

Good for you, Brother. It sounds like an amazing opportunity.

Jimmy Choo · #4 10-07-2006, 01:58 PM

You did the right thing!!! You have to stand up for yourself and your principles. Congrats on the speaking engagements. Those are chances you can NOT pass up!!! Best of luck!

FSUZeta · #5 10-07-2006, 04:45 PM

good for you!! hope the speaking engagements go well and that you make many contacts that can further your career.

mulattogyrl · #6 10-07-2006, 05:12 PM

Good for you. Everything happens for a reason.

highflyerlaura · #7 10-07-2006, 07:04 PM

Best wishes and good luck from the Aussie GLBTI community, hun. I hope that the speeches and everything after them goes well for you. After you have done them, can you post a copy of the lectures you are giving up on here, as I'd really like to read them and I'm sure that it would help any other member of the forums that might be GLBTI.

Best of luck and *hugs*.

Still BLUTANG · #8 10-07-2006, 08:26 PM

Congratulations! Much success to you with your future endeavors.

texas*princess · #9 10-07-2006, 08:32 PM

that's awesome! good for you!

RU OX Alum · #10 10-07-2006, 10:12 PM

HELLL YEAH HELL YEAH HEEELLLLLLYEAAAHHH!!!

Don't let them grind you down, stand tall!! You were basically doing them a favor by working there anyway.

EE-BO · #11 10-08-2006, 10:29 AM

Congratulations.

You, by your own admission, failed to request time off well enough in advance to attend this event.

Your boss at least gave you something and your response was to decide that it was not good enough and he didn't know what he was doing anyway by not letting you just take off this time on short notice.

And so you quit without 2 weeks notice- and from a damned important job at that.

Some principles my friend. And good luck getting references when you go looking for another job and need them. I still sometimes tap into references from jobs I had many years ago- and I own my own company now! You never know when you might need to cross an old bridge again- and you just burned one big time.

Someone said just above, "You were basically doing them a favor by working there anyway."

I have spent many hours volunteering at Boy's Club in two cities during my college and post-college career. Quite frankly, these places are full of volunteer and employees (working at all the salary such programs can afford)
who think they are "doing the kids a favor by working there anyway."

Anyone with that attitude is best to never bother volunteering in the first place. These kids need people who care and will show up.

People who show up and work for a few weeks or months and then just leave do more harm than good.

Talk yourself all you want into thinking that you made a lasting difference in 6 months when everyone you work with has now seen you just take off for a very pitiful reason.

The lecture series you are embarking on is certainly a noble goal, but if you really cared about it and were a principled man, then why didn't you give 2 weeks notice and then start lecturing- or accept the one day off and then drive all night to manage everything?

Put it another way- if the organizations you are lecturing for were to find out what you just did, do you think they would still want you to represent them with a public speech?

highflyerlaura · #12 10-08-2006, 12:02 PM

In regards to the last few posts before this one:

EE-BO, thats a bit uncalled for what you just said. None of us except for Senusret really know what was going on in that workplace and I dare say that the workplace conditions there would have to be interesting at the very least for him to want to get out of there so quickly. Some people just don't gel well with some of the other people in their workplace on occasion and quite often they will decide to move on in order to keep their own mental well-being up. If this is the case, well that bridge was already burned well before this incident, even if he did have a good working relationship with most of his other colleagues.

Also who are we to lecture this guy about principals? I think that you just broke one just then, which is "don't judge, unless ye thee-self be judged". I'm not going to comment on your opinion about community service organisations and institutions, though I am curious as to what your opinion is on teachers, considering they work in the most important community service of them all, yet are paid to do it.

As for the stuff about representation of different groups considering hes quit his job, putting it bluntly, I doubt those organisations would even care considering similar situations I have witnessed in the past when I've helped organise events for my university. It shouldn't be theirs or our business either way though, and would be like if I asked you for your financial details even though I had no financial activities with your business.
If however he does decide to go for a similar position, considering the other ways that any future employer would be able to enquire about his previous preformance in that job, I hardly think that a single potentially problematic reference would be as major a problem as you suggest, esspecially if he explained the situation truthfully and in detail.

Also Senusret, I can see what you mean about a lot of people here being GLBTI friendly. I'm sure a lot of you remember the post I made a few months ago asking if anyone knew of any service sororities that accept transgendered folk like myself. Since then I've been absolutely amazed by the help that I've received and friendly attitudes, esspecially from people such as Tom, Cutiepie, basically the rest of the mods, Dionysus, PSUSigKap and the OPA service-sorority girls that I have been talking to, which are MaryAmanda and Ginger, just to name a few of the wonderful people here that I have met.

Follow your heart and you will find the way that suits you best, hun.

winnieb · #13 10-08-2006, 04:17 PM

Congrats on the speaking engagement!!
I wish you the best and hope that by following your heart and your principles you achieve success!!
Quitting your job to follow your dreams takes alot of courage and is to be admired!

EE-BO · #14 10-08-2006, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by highflyerlaura

In regards to the last few posts before this one:

EE-BO, thats a bit uncalled for what you just said. None of us except for Senusret really know what was going on in that workplace and I dare say that the workplace conditions there would have to be interesting at the very least for him to want to get out of there so quickly. Some people just don't gel well with some of the other people in their workplace on occasion and quite often they will decide to move on in order to keep their own mental well-being up. If this is the case, well that bridge was already burned well before this incident, even if he did have a good working relationship with most of his other colleagues.

Also who are we to lecture this guy about principals? I think that you just broke one just then, which is "don't judge, unless ye thee-self be judged".

This is the internet and people are asked to comment based on the facts presented in a given post. And I did. If you want to get technical about it, you have no place saying my comments were out of line.

Principles were stated as part of that post and I posed an honest question.

Has nothing to do with judging anyone.

Senurset has posted more info about things that he expected and stated to his boss when he took the job, and that changes things quite a bit from what the original post suggested.

In any event, I don't usually make posts like the one I did above. If I thought he was worthless I would have said nothing.

Instead I saw someone who clearly devotes his time to very worthy causes who made, based on the info first presented, the kind of career blunder that came come back to haunt you later in more ways that one.

And so my comment was intended to offer another perspective that I thought was valuable- and in a tone that I thought appropriate to stimulate thought. And if my thought was not wanted, this should not have been posted on a public internet board where I am a member.

I have had many jobs and bosses I hated- once I gave notice after 8 days on a new project. But I still have a positive reference if I need it because of how it was handled. I have also seen people burn bridges and not realize until long down the road what it had cost them.

Senurset- more power to you. We are strangers and I have no beef with you. I just thought you deserved more than a "good choice" comment about a major life event- or I would have left it alone entirely.

I genuinely wish you and all who give service to their communities well, but even these kinds of positions are "jobs" in a sense- and it pays to look out for yourself to a certain degree in practical terms as well as the ideals you espouse.

Dionysus · #15 10-08-2006, 11:21 AM

Congrats on the speaking engagements and for following your heart, dude.