First...to all you guys with medical issues...move to canada...that crap is FREE...then live your life as you please. We can teach you to skate and play hockey, drink beer...with more then a drop of alcohol, ride a moose, chug maple syrup, say please and thank you. For no reason at all....we actually are a really cool nation. Southern ontario has better winters then Chicago, New York, Buffalo, Boston etc. Which leaves 4-5 months to work on the car for the upcoming spring
LOL Cheers boys
To quote Walt Whitman.....what will your verse be..?
No job or woman is worth your sanity
Ryan Austin

Big step and congrats, Jerry. Good luck to you!

Good for you.

Living in the Bay Area I have seen a lot of companies come and go. In the .com days I must have deleted 100+ voicemails from recruiters while working for ADP (fortune 100 company, blah, blah). I had friends go to start ups that made them millionaires on paper only to have the crash wipe them out. They all found new better jobs over the years. It hurt a little but they all bounced back.

I have other friends who were in the first 100 employees of Salesforce.com, early on at eBay, google, and so on. Some cashed out others are still there because they love what they do.

Me, I stayed put because it was safe. 11 years later I got sick of the BS and bailed. Looking back I regreat staying as long as I did and not taking the chance or those phone calls.

3 years ago, after 14 years in the same industry, I made a total career change. Have been drinking from the fire house ever sense but love it. Should have done it earlier... But I always knew that if it didn't work out I could go back to what I knew in a heart beat.

Embrase the change... It will all work out - best of luck.

Glad you followed your brain... when it's time to go - it's time to go. If you don't go and you stay unhappy ---- what kind of life is that.

If you're a doer... get ta doin!

Good luck and best wishes!! :thumbsup:

I talk about change a lot in my line of work (yes I am a management consultant)

I refer to change like this:

If you drive the change it's always good change that leads to good outcomes
If you wait for change to force it's way onto you, it never ends well

Change in inevitable, those who prosper don't wait for change to dictate the terms.

By the way, in what we do we see less than 10% of companies and people embrace and proactively drive change.

90% wait till it's too late.

Congrats on being in the 10%, it will work out fine

I'm glad to hear this because I'm close to doing the same thing. Tired of sitting around watching life go by because I'm too busy working to live.

You get it. :thumbsup:

I just started reading his book today! Congrats! It was 3 years ago this week that I made the move and never looked back . It is scary at first but one of the best decisions I ever made

TOLD YA!!!