Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First - Episode 268/Is Your Job Sucking Your Blood? Take This Leap Of Faith!
Saturday 9th June 2018
Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First
Hello and welcome to
#MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 268
Title: Is Your Job
Sucking Your Blood? Take This Leap Of Faith!
He had done well in the
Arts in High School, both of his Parents were Lawyers, his Paternal Grand
Father was a Lawyer and so it was said that Law runs in their family.
He followed his Parents
feetsteps and enrolled into Law Faculty in Harvard University and subsequently
graduated therefrom.
With connections he had
made while in College and also his Parents connections he landed a lucrative
job working for a big Corporation. He was doing these real estate transactional
deals for needy clients.
“I just could not give a
damn about corporation A’s interest versus corporation B’s interest,” he said,
“It just didn’t matter to me.”
But it was the religion he
had to believe. He didn’t have a choice. He had a boss and a client (lots of
clients). And they needed him to perform.
“Every ‘I’ had to be
dotted, every ‘T’ crossed,” he said, “And of course that’s who you want as your
lawyer, someone who is obsessed with detail, but I wasn’t. My brain didn’t work
that way.”
“So clients would yell at me
and my bosses too, he said", “I gave one guy a memo and he wrote in giant
red letters, I told you to write about California law, not like a Californian!”
"I was writing
creatively rather than in a rigid, corporate style. I was attempting to hold on
to myself. Be somewhat free in a shackled environment. But it didn’t work. And I
knew I was breaking". He confessed
I knew then that though I
was alive but in hell.
“I was going to be
suffering the worst life a person could have if I stayed there,” he said.
But he was 25 and was
already making 6 figures. He was making more money than he could've ever
imagined. And he was on his way to making millions. And the money was really
new to him that he didn't really know what to do with it.
He had a signal that
reminded him the worst day was coming. The clock ticked.
Tick, tick, tick, tick,
tick, tick, tick.
It
was Sunday night and “60 Minutes” was about to air. The dread began
to sink in.
“That meant disaster for
me,” he said.
It
meant Monday morning was just around the corner.
“I dreaded going to work
every day,” he said.
He was actually in hell.
Then the thought came to
him to quit - he wanted out, he's not cut out for this kind of life; he was not
enjoying his job even though he was earning fabulously from it, but he had no
peace of mind. He wondered why he should be having palpitations whenever he
thought of going to work, some days he had to call in sick even though he was
not physically sick but mentally sick. He just wanted out, this kind of life
was not for him. He felt that the job was literally sucking his blood like the
vampires do.
But he wasn’t the only one
contemplating leaving. He told me about all the people who talked about
“getting out,” but never made it.
And why they could not
move was simple, they have been trapped, You have a wife, and a number of kids,
they give you a mortgage. And then you’re stuck in the corporate prison.
“You make a pledge to the
death. And you’re there till the death. And that’s how it works for a lot of
people,” he said.
Even the senior partners
had a plan to leave.
They were very wealthy.
And very miserable.
“How do you know they were
miserable?” I asked.
“They told me,” he said,
“and even if they didn’t tell you, you could see it. The way they treated other
people. And how they walked around. They weren’t thrilled with life. They were
distracted with their salaries, but not thrilled with life.”
So many had confessed they
were trying to get out. And because some of them were the most
successful...That’s what convinced him.
But one day, he woke up
from bed and decided that it was time to quit, it was time to throw in the
towel, it was time to take back his life and the peace he so much desired.
He decided to unlock the
cage and walk out.
“I took this leap of faith
into the abyss and quit my law job,” he said.
What the hell was he
thinking?
“There was nothing really
to think about because I was so miserable on the job, it was profoundly
depressing for me,” he said.
But what gave him the
courage to leave such a high paying job? Especially when NO ONE else would.
And this is what gave him
the courage to quit his high paying job
“One night after I came
home from the law job, I was so unhappy. And I just started to write stories
about my childhood. There were 3 or 4 stories I wrote in a row that all had
this exuberance in them, memories of times that I was free. And as I wrote I
thought ‘God this is the first time I’ve felt happy in a long time, writing.’”
"Four hours had gone
by and it’d only felt like 20 minutes. And at work it was the opposite. And
that was when I came to the conclusion that if I don't kill this job by leaving
it, the job will kill me" he enthused
When he quit his job with
the Big Corp, he took a job doing data entry at the Chicago Sun Times. For
$23,000 a year (that’s 1/10th of what he was making as a lawyer.)
And he realized… his
lifestyle didn’t change that much. He still had an apartment. He still had a
car. He still had a bed. He still had a stereo. He was doing what he loved
doing without a huge lifestyle change.
“And I didn’t wake up at 3
in the morning in a cold sweat. That was a huge bonus,” he said.
I think we’re all allowed
to deserve more or want more in our lives. And this story is an example of
that.
The more example I can
find in life, the more capable I feel of being free.
He said, “In a way taking
this leap was sort of easy for me because I was suffering so badly. I just
couldn’t contemplate any future in that world.”
Now when the clock ticks
and "60 Minutes" is starting, he can relax. He no longer has to start
sweating when it is cold and he no longer has to carry his heart in his palms
all the time wondering what his Clients and his Bosses shall tell him again.
The man whose story I have
carried in this write up today is Robert Kurson and he is now a bestselling
author.
He found this by taking a
huge leap of faith.
And you too can. If your
job is sucking your blood, remember that blood is the fluid that sustains life,
be careful that your job does not kill you, rather kill it before it does.
If you do not enjoy your
job, if your job comes to you as a hard task, then it's time to take a leap of
faith and go to where you shall be at peace with yourself and enjoy your job
Until I come your way
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