Anyone who knows me knows that I am not, and never will be, a slave to the working world. I spent 6 years in a job at a well-known government funded hospital where I was absolutely miserable. There was no growth, the morale was always low, and it was a rotating door of angry managers who had nothing better to do than harass you. My mental and physical health suffered as a result.

All I knew was I could not see myself doing THIS for the next 30 plus years of my life. It stifled so much of my free time that I could’ve spent doing other things, my creativity was zero, and my self-worth plummeted.

So I say to anyone who is miserable in the job they are at now – I KNOW it’s not easy to leave. However, are you willing to sacrifice the short time you have left in this world in a place where you are so unhappy?

It’s scary – but no one ever says on their death bed, “I wish I had spent more time working at that crappy job”.

Work to live, don’t live to work.