You Want To Quit Your Job ..

You can quit a job without a two week notice. You don't even have to know how to quit a job without saying why .. and all because you are an at will employee.

But, it is the fact that you are an at will employee with the right to simply state .. I quit that makes collecting unemployment benefits when you do quit .. next to impossible .. because the unemployment laws .. require you to prove you had good cause to quit .. and it's not enough to just tell your story.

You have to prove your story.

Can I Receive Unemployment If I Quit My Job?

And that even provisions, which make exceptions for personal reasons to quit a job ..

DO NOT, relieve you of the burden of proving (as the moving party) that you had good cause to quit.

Quitting Is Easy
But Unemployment Benefits When You Quit A Job, IS NOT

But the thought of what I would have to go through emotionally to build a case for unemployment benefits .. exhausted me .. just thinking about it.

Instead, I chose to explore an alternative path to freedom from a job that sucked the life out of my life.

When your daydreams are about escaping a job .. it's time to move on, but since unemployment benefits are just a temporary fix and the next job has a good possibility of being just as bad, my reasoning became ..

Why move from one prison to the next .. why not attempt a prison break?

It is essential to understand the predicament of what most Americans work in .. at will employment.

Because, without exception, great effort is required if you want .. or need to keep your job .. or quit your job.

• Whether we feel compelled to escape a job, when it becomes intolerable to us.



• Leave a job, due to personal reasons.



• Or, work within the limiting walls of a job.

It doesn't hurt to understand, that our basic protection from both at will employment and our own financial dependence on this type of work, is unemployment benefits.

Reasons To Quit A Job?

And so are unemployment statutes which do vary by state, so it is important to at least read your states rules for unemployment because your state may have special provisions.

Many states have amended their laws with a provision specifically for this reason. The USDOL has aggregated the changes that occurred on a state by state basis. Click here to find out whether you quit to follow a spouse.

What To Say When Quitting A Job

If you need to know how to quit without saying why .. I will assume you have no interest in collecting unemployment benefits.

The Realities Of The New At Will Employment

Why pay'em when they are so willing to work for free to keep their skills fresh.

Why is the unemployment rate holding steady at 9 percent?

Why is this recession different than all the rest?

Well, I'm not entirely sure, but I do know when someone is blowing smoke ...

Due to the surplus of unemployed people .. those still with jobs, are enduring emotional extortion and veiled financial threats of job loss for not going above and beyond with their efforts .. the problem is .. the monetary compensation remains more or less .. static for doing the work of two .. maybe three people.

No one is truly valued anymore .. not even the best of the best.

As a friend always tells me .. we are now human resources .. kind of like the staples in the supply room .. or any other piece of equipment.

Yet, all we do is complain and then continue to wait for someone else to create the new opportunity we seek.

Why do so few take the necessary action to become what the future will demand of us .. to be self sufficient.


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