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

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