Quitting A Job – Your Financial Freedom
It frustrates me when I see people get fooled in quitting a job by get-rich-quick scheme websites on the Internet. And believe me, there are tons of them out there, waiting to snatch some victims.
What about you?
Are you one of the victims? Are you giving up your financial freedom?
Please don’t.
Allow me to share with you some important truths that are essential to your internet success (and possibly to your mental well-being!).
Don’t go chasing every internet marketing rabbit trail.
The internet is literally so big, and there are so many marketers trying to make a quick buck from you, that you could spend all day, every day just chasing illusions of internet riches.
If you only chase after those hyped up illusions every day, then you will NEVER find what you’re looking for.
There does come a point where you have to take a small leap of faith and “try” something. In other words, you will have to do some work.
The problem is, whose method should you try? After all, your time is valuable and you don’t want to waste it on hype before you are ready to quit your job.
The best advice I can give you before you quitting a job is to find someone who has done it already, and do what they do. I’m not talking about someone who “says” they know some secret method. I’m talking about someone who is making money.
That person could be me, or it could be another internet marketer that you’ve grown to trust. The bottom line is, there’s just too much crap out there for anyone to find the right way on their own.
It took me years to find the right way, and today there’s exponentially more hype and junk on the internet than when I started.
If I had to do it all over again today, starting with zero knowledge, I’d be totally lost.
Thankfully, there’s a simple program that’s going to save your time and money.
Finally! 
Please, don’t waste your time on programs that don’t work for you in quitting a job. There are so many opportunities out there that there’s no need for you to waste your time on the ones that aren’t working.
I hope that this advice will put you into the right frame of mind as you read this post.
Have a great day!
Learn how I quit my job using the Internet.
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Happier Than a Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week TWO PLANE TICKETS, NO PLAN, ONE DREAM
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Lotto luck almost deadly for BC winner
VANCOUVER — Ivan looks like a big friendly guy who wouldn’t attract much attention. Except that he won $9.5 million with a Lotto Max ticket in March 2010.
When interviewed, he wore his trademark fleece vest over a plain black T-shirt, with sweatpants.
“I’m not changing for nobody,” he says.
He’s never flown first class. “I could, but why?” he asks.
As a new multimillionaire, Ivan gave two weeks’ notice — and proceeded to work them — before quitting his job as a delivery driver.
He was now mega-rich and retired.
And it almost killed him.
Ivan’s good fortune is no secret in his hometown of Abbotsford, B.C.
Any jackpot of more than a few million dollars makes a big splash in the news, and Ivan’s $9.5 million share of a $19 million Lotto Max draw was no exception.
Media flocked to the B.C. Lottery Corporation news conference to celebrate his March 2010 win and took photos of a beaming Ivan, his arms spread wide to hold the giant cardboard cheque. He told reporters he had quit his job and ordered a new Dodge Ram, “candy-apple red with a few extras.”
The cat was out of the bag. All of Abbotsford knew who had won the lottery.
“How many brand-new trucks are there out there that are inferno red?” he says now. Not only that: How many guys out there look like Ivan?
With his bushy white beard spilling over his chin, he has the kind of instantly recognizable face that people in the Fraser Valley city of 134,000 people could spot a mile away.
In no time, complete strangers began approaching him in the street, asking for help paying their debts. Others would simply ask, “Oh, why don’t you give us some money?”
Two years later, the appeals for money come less frequently — every week rather than every day — but they haven’t stopped.
Claiming a lottery win anonymously isn’t an option, so winners such as Ivan have no opportunity to keep their jackpot a secret.
“One of the conditions of receiving the prize is consenting to the release of their name and photo,” BCLC spokeswoman Kim Steinbart says.
“We publicize wins because we want to demonstrate that players do win prizes.”
Winners must claim their cheques in person. The media are typically notified when the winner arrives to pick up the cheque.
Ivan didn’t know what he was in for. “If I would’ve known all the newspapers would be there, I would have never went.”
Even now, with an unlisted phone number, the stream of requests never lets up.
“I get people I don’t know mailing me letters,” he said. “I used to get pictures from a nice house with flower beds out front in Mission. They asked if I could pay their mortgage off so they could live freely.”
His estranged brother contacted him, asking for help paying off tens of thousands of dollars in property taxes. Ivan obliged. When he refused to give hundreds of thousands more to pay off the family’s house, his brother’s wife tore into him via Facebook, trashing him through mutual friends. It got so bad that Ivan deleted his Facebook account.
“If I gave everyone all the money they want, I’d be broke.”
Ivan has not gone broke. With the help of his bank, he invested a little more than half his winnings and gave some to his common-law wife, with whom he still lives. He’s also used his new-found wealth to indulge his passion for vintage cars. He owns, among others, a 1968 Oldsmobile 442, a 1933 Chevy Hot Rod and a 1926 Model T.
Ivan spends his days visiting with friends, enjoying his new cabin, tinkering with cars and taking the odd trip to a casino. He donates to the Make a Wish Foundation, fulfilling dreams for sick children. He says he’s happy.
It nearly wasn’t this way.
In the first year after depositing his $9.5-million cheque, Ivan put on about 170 pounds, topping out at a whopping 415 pounds. Diagnosed as diabetic and forced to use a scooter for mobility, Ivan was given an ultimatum by his doctor: Fly to Toronto for risky gastrointestinal surgery, or die.
Ivan freely admits he caused his own misfortune. Moving from a delivery driver’s salary to that of a retired multimillionaire has its perks — especially ordering prime rib whenever the urge hit.
So he began eating out all the time.
When you’re poor, you can’t afford all that. Almost never,” he explained.
Not that he didn’t know about food. Ivan is a chef by trade, having trained in French cuisine at George Brown College in Toronto. He once cooked prime rib for former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in Ottawa’s parliamentary dining room.
But 12 months after his win, Ivan was sent for a laparoscopic adjustable gastric-band procedure, also known as “lap band,” which uses a silicone band to squeeze off the upper part of the stomach. It reduces the stomach to roughly one-tenth its normal size, drastically limiting the amount of food that can be consumed in one sitting, and tricking the brain into thinking the stomach is full.
It’s cruel irony for a multimillionaire who could afford to eat anything: All of Ivan’s food must be weighed and his diet is now strictly controlled.
“I can’t have any piece of meat bigger than the palm of your hand,” he says, holding his palm flat. “No potatoes. No milk.”
Ivan lost 85 pounds after his surgery, and although he still uses a scooter, he is finally able to get around normally.
The funny thing is, he says, there’s little he would have changed since winning the lottery.
At the time of his win, Ivan was renting a small house. He and his wife now enjoy retirement in a Fraser Valley rancher worth $1.5 million.
He still buys a lottery ticket every day.
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Studio Visit: Mary Tangora and Larry Steinbauer – Champaign/Urbana News
Studio Visit appears first in print, in Sunday editions of The News-Gazette. Here, Melissa Merli visits with Mary Tangoraand Larry Steinbauier , artists who also operate the Urbana gallery Wind, Water Light.
Q: What are you working on now, Mary?
A: Since I’ve been working with glass bottles so much and all of a sudden everything is turning into plastic, I’m making plastic jewelry, and I’m having a good time with it. I’m at the mercy of the bottle companies as to what colors they use. This (color) is almost like (glass artist Dale) Chihuly. They also discontinued the way they make the bottoms of the bottles. I pour boiling water on the bottoms (after cutting them off the bottles), and you never know what’s going to happen. Every bottle has a different bottom.
Q: What do you make with the plastic?
A: I’m making scarf tubes. I’m making rings, earrings, necklaces, stickpins. This is a bracelet with beads. Sometimes I use the print on the bottles. This is a combo of shampoo and soda bottles. And here’s two stickpins that have antique buttons on them.
Q: Where do you get your ideas?
A: They pop into my head. I don’t think anybody’s done this yet. I’ve looked all over the Internet, and I haven’t found anybody. I think I’m on it. Since I was making jewelry from glass bottles, I just knew how to look at bottles.
Q: Are you still making glass jewelry, too?
A: Yes, people still love that. I’ve been making the glass jewelry since 1992. The last year and a half, I’d really been struggling with doing something different. I’m also doing a line of wood jewelry and a line of clock-gear jewelry. And when I have the time, I’m doing some paper doll collages, with maps. A lot of the stuff I use is recycled.
Q: Larry, what are you doing?
A: I’m still experimenting around with the lamps and getting more designs off them. I also made that apron with the garlic picture on it. That’s a collaboration with Donald Enz of Gilman. We handle his work here. I’m also designing silk scarves. I’m designing a number of things, like cards and tiles. I start out with something I’ve done in watercolor and then I manipulate parts of the paintings.
Q: Are you still selling your T-shirts, too?
A: Yes.
Q: How long have you two been making art?
A (Tangora): Forever. I think we figure he’s been doing things for 30 years and me, more than 20.
A (Steinbauer): I quit a job over in Decatur in 1996. I was a farm manager at a bank. My degree was in ag economics. I had a scholarship to go to ag school or art school.
Q: Why did you go to ag school?
A: Because it was more practical for my parents, who were footing the bills.
Q: Why did you quit your bank job?
A: I was getting a lot of commissions to do artwork, so I was staying up late at night to do them. So I thought I would quit my job and have a lot more time to do artwork. I didn’t know that marketing my art would take up all the time I gained by quitting my job.
Q: How long have you two had Wind, Water Light (an artisans gallery)?
A (Steinbauer): Eight years last month.
A (Tangora): We opened in downtown Champaign during a Boneyard (Arts Festival) weekend.
Q: When did you move to Lincoln Square (in Urbana)?
A: Two years and three months ago.
Q: How’s it going?
A: In spite of the economy, we’re eking along. We wish the economy were doing better, then we would be doing better. I don’t know how to get rich people here to buy local art. If people come from out of town and see shops like ours thriving, then they think it’s a good, solid community. If they’re not seeing that, then they think, “Well, why aren’t people supporting their local businesses?” It’s amazing how many out-of-town people we get in here.
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From bank to basketball and the Zen of a great hook
Charlie Currence is warming up. He spins a basketball on his index finger, rolls it up his arm and shrugs it across his shoulders, then launches it in a graceful arc his signature hook shot toward the rim.
Its quiet in the University City YMCA on a sunny May morning, and he has the court to himself. Swish, then another shot.
Friends and fans these days know Currence, an unassuming 54-year-old, as Charlie, Charlie C. or simply, Hook Shot. They know his days begin at the gym, followed by coffee at a fast-food restaurant, followed by conversations with friends and strangers about basketball and life.
And many know its not the path Currence expected.
The Mount Holly native graduated from Wingate University with a business degree and worked for years at Wachovia Corp. and its predecessor bank, First Union. He went by Phillip, his given name, because he thought it sounded more professional. He made good money, raised four children and sometimes wondered whether he had more to offer.
When he and his wife separated, Currence decided to make a change. He quit his job in 2007 and turned down a few offers that followed, figuring he would sit on the sidelines until he knew exactly what he wanted to do. He bought a new basketball and started playing more at the Y. And he practiced his hook.
Currence had always had the shot. His high school coach encouraged him to use it more, but he thought it was too flashy. After he left the bank, it took him more than a year to feel comfortable enough to show others. When he did, though, it changed his life.
Hed shoot from the free-throw line, the three-point line, way out by half-court. Once, he answered his phone while shooting and realized he could perform with a prop. People would stop and watch. Kids would ask, wide-eyed, how he did it, and he would tell them about the importance of practice.
Soon, it became clear: Currence would use basketball to reach out and help people.
He asked a friend to shoot video as he practiced. His son added music and helped him post a series of clips to YouTube. One has nearly 12,000 views. Currence has spoken to kids at camp, has talked with a sports agent, and has been contacted by talk show producers, he said. And nearly every day, he meets someone new who wants to hear his story.
I always saw myself as happy but with my arms folded, he said. Now Im happier, with my arms wide open. Ive met more people in the last four years of my life than in the last 40.
Walking away isnt easy
It hasnt been easy. Without an income, Currence has burned through most of his savings. He walked away from his mortgage after his divorce, letting the home fall into foreclosure, and moved in with his mother. Hell go back to work if he needs to, he said, but he believes making an impact through basketball is his calling, and he wants to see it through.
People probably thought I was crazy, he said. But Ive got a sense of peace and freedom that I never had in my life. I have no doubt that God has some stuff in store for me.
Linda Jackson, Currences younger sister, said family members never thought he would take such a leap.
I guess I was a little wowed like, oh wow, she said. But at the same time, he had worked on that job over 20-some years. I was happy as long as he was doing something he was passionate about.
So far, plenty of things have worked out in his favor, said Jackson, 51, of Mount Holly. Currences children, who range in age from their late teens to their late 20s, landed academic scholarships to college, for instance, she said. Jackson helps her brother shoot pictures and brainstorm and occasionally goes with him to play and shes confident his efforts will succeed, she said.
Everywhere he goes, people gravitate toward him, she said. I dont ever think about not being successful, and hes pretty much the same way. He gives so much, and Im a believer that what you give will be given to you in return.
So far, at least, Currences hook has earned him a loose following at the local YMCAs.
Hes a constant up here, and hes famous for his hook shot, said Kinard Barnett, sports coordinator at the Dowd YMCA near uptown. He does a good job of being a role model for a lot of guys. … Just his insight specifically with the hook shot could be a good tool for a lot of young men.
Currence isnt sure what comes next, but he feels hes on the verge of something big, he said. He knows he needs some financial backing, but whatever he does, he wants to be sure he has time for people.
In the gym on this morning, hes not in a hurry. He breaks his easy rhythm shoot, swish, shoot to mention, again, that he loves being a father. To reflect on the fact that at 54, its not too late for a new start.
I dont know where this is going to take me, he said. Im not losing sleep over it. Im just going to let it ride.
For now, Currence is just warming up.
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Only The Rich Should Quit Their Job To Write A Novel
Few people would give up a high paying corporate job to pursue creative ambitions with little chance of paying off. This story is the anatomy of an improbable success, and the mix of courage and naiveté to follow one’s bliss.
Going after your dreams is risky, no matter how cushy your nest egg.
Some of us have heard this before: you’re so funny, you should quit your job and become a comedian! But how many people who were told that and actually went for it, made it past the first night at the local Improv? The chances of going from should be a comedian to actually being a comedian is unsurprisingly low.
Yet, as Americans, we love stories of improbable success. Our culture is full of them. We hold them up as examples of how blind faith, a little bit of a naivete, and a whole lot of courage might make you the next Mark Zuckerberg of tech, or the next Nicholas Sparks of book-to-movie fame.
Cristina Alger wrote eloquent emails as a bankruptcy attorney at WilmerHale. “She did. Her emails were great,” her friend Martin Gilmore, 35, told me from his office on Park Avenue recently. So what do you do with that? You write good emails. You can go into marketing. Human resource people send out lots of emails. You can live a nice middle class life writing great emails.
Or…you can write a novel and get on the Los Angeles Times best seller list for three weeks.
That’s what 31-year-old Alger did. She followed her bliss and the stars of talent, opportunity and luck all aligned in her favor as if she were being helped by hidden hands. Alger’s first-ever attempt at serious fiction was a novel called the “The Darlings”, a family drama about an investment company caught up in a Bernie Madoff-inspired Ponzi scheme. She knew this world intimately. She comes from the Alger family, one of the biggest investment companies in New York. She’s an uptown girl writing about an uptown one-percenter family falling apart in the Wall Street crisis years.
Alger’s success was improbable. She found an agent on the second try and was published by Viking on the first try earlier this year . She has a deal to write another book based on the Elliot Spitzer-like character in the first. Jay McInerney called her book the “best literary product of the financial crisis to date.”
Jealous yet? From Goldman Sachs junior analyst to bankruptcy attorney to this. The possibilities are now as endless as they are exhilarating.
Cristina Alger is not going to win the hearts of writers her age, or even older. Most spend decades before they get there, whereas “there” means finished product – agent – publisher – contract for second book – best seller list. (You can now plant a tree, have a kid, die and go to heaven a fulfilled human being.) The rest of Alger’s literary peers will never get there, or won’t complete the loop.
From Harvard to Goldman to corporate attorney to best seller in around two years.
By those measures, Alger is every young writer’s fantasy in the flesh. This is how they want it to work out for them. If writing and being completely ignored sounds appealing, you can get a Twitter account or you can try selling your novel to an agent. No one wants to be a struggling writer. It’s suicide, as Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling once admitted.
If you drew two overlapping rings and called one “what you would like to get” and the other “what you will probably get”, Alger lies in the overlapping cat’s eye in the middle called “this rarely happens”. She didn’t have a clue what she was in for, and it was all surprisingly good. No one is more shocked than she is.
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A father’s fight
OTTAWA — After three years, Greg Woolvett finally lost patience with the way his war-damaged son Jonathan was being treated at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
So he kidnapped him.
It happened May 1, barely a week after Jonathan, 30-year-old Afghanistan war veteran, had been released from the General Hospital in Ottawa, where he’d been taken following his second suicide attempt.
“The military was told precisely (by doctors) that Jon couldn’t be left alone and had to be under constant supervision,� Woolvett says. “They took him home and left him and he relapsed immediately.�
Depressed and upset, Jonathan stayed home, not reporting in each day as required at what is known as sick parade. Woolvett tried to monitor the situation from his home in Burlington, Ont., and was told by one of Jonathan’s superior officers that if his son didn’t show up for sick parade, he would be disciplined.
“I had a gut feeling they were going to arrest him for being AWOL,� Woolvett says, “so I had a friend go to Jon’s house and keep him overnight so they wouldn’t be able to find and arrest him.�
In the meantime, Woolvett quickly rearranged his life and left Burlington at 4 a.m. to drive to Petawawa, where he picked up his son, turned around and headed straight to the Brentwood addiction centre in Windsor.
“I got so sick and tired of repetitive inaction by the military I had to take matters into my own hands. Jon was a dead man walking and sooner or later he was going to kill himself,� Woolvett explains.
“Jon has lost his wife, his child, his home and his career. Once he had an idyllic lifestyle — his wife was in the military, they had a brand new baby and he was on a career fast track to become sergeant. It’s all gone.�
In the days after Jonathan was taken by his father to Windsor, his military superiors threatened court martial. The idea was dropped — at least temporarily — five days later.
More recently, Woolvett says, a military doctor refused to fill Jonathan’s medication prescription unless he returned to Petawawa. His father declined on his behalf: “I wasn’t going to risk them arresting him.�
The Department of National Defence won’t discuss individual cases because of privacy issues, and had no comment on the Woolvett’s situation.
Jonathan’s story has come to light just after the release of several reports critical of the military’s handling of war-damaged soldiers. Last month, a group of civilian clinicians working with Afghanistan war veterans authored a report slamming mental health care at CFB Petawawa, saying soldiers there are suffering because of inadequate treatment.
Woolvett, who describes himself as self-educated in the ways of the military, says he snatched Jonathan from the base not just to save his son’s life but to help other veterans of the decade-long Afghanistan war who are suffering from trauma.
“I know there are lots of them out there. Many are from broken homes to begin with and the military becomes their family and they get kicked around by a second family,� he says. They aren’t always highly educated people, he adds, “but they are the guys who face daily combat and, like my son, are the ones who are suffering.�
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Pryor moves past talk of quitting, plans on playing
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Earlier this month, Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor told SI.com that he thought about quitting football last year. Pryor has now abandoned talk of abandoning the game.
“I’m not going to talk about that,” Pryor said to Jerry McDonald of InsideBayArea.com. “That’s in the past.”
What’s in the future for Pryor is a desire to play. But his agenda is confusing. He concedes the starting job to Carson Palmer, but Pryor insists that he won’t be a backup.
“Carson is the starter and he’s going to be the starter,” Pryor said. “But I don’t put myself as I’m going to be [a] backup. I mean, I don’t sit around saying, ‘I want to be a backup, that’s what I want to be.’ That’s not how I operate. That’s not how I want to be. I’m going to work to play. And Carson’s always played well and always will. Whenever the opportunity comes for me to play, I’ll play. But I’m not planning to be a back-up. Get that correct.”
How can McDonald or anyone else get that correct when Pryor can’t? If Palmer “is the starter and he’s going to be the starter,” then Pryor necessarily will be a backup.
Unless he plans to change positions (personal punt protector, anyone?), a concept he previously has rejected, Pryor will be a backup.
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Court: No unemployment for quitting to follow spouse
The Court of Appeals of Ohio has let stand a decision that denied unemployment benefits to a woman who quit her job so she could move with her husband to California.
Recent case: Cindy Goodrich quit her job as a phlebotomist because her husband’s job was moved to California. She applied for unemployment compensation, but was rejected. That led to a lengthy legal challenge in which she argued that she was denied equal protection; she said she had been singled out based on her marital status.
The court declined her bid to strike down the law, which includes no exception for workers who quit for family reasons. It said the law is gender-neutral and does not discriminate against women. (Goodrich v. Ohio Unemployment Compensation Review Commission, No. 11AP-473, Court of Appeals of Ohio, 2012)
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Facebook is tough to quit, and investors like that
Slowing growth. A weak platform for mobile advertising. Privacy legislation that could hamstring profits.
With all the negative headlines, including General Motors Co.’s decision this week to pull its Facebook ads, why is there such a frenzy to buy shares when the company begins trading Friday?
The answer can be found partly in the experience of people such as DeAnna Stephens of Charlotte, N.C. The 36-year-old video producer quit using Facebook in December, deciding she was frittering away too much time reading about what her friends were eating for lunch. Then she realized that she had lost touch with 900 people.
“I couldn’t believe how out of the loop I was on things in life,” Stephens said. Tired of being the last to hear about new jobs, new boyfriends and new babies, she signed up again “simply to be back on the radar.”
Wall Street analysts and others have an array of concerns about Facebook Inc.’s ability to churn the kind of profit necessary to justify its initial market value of more than $100 billion. But the consensus is that, with no competitors of its size and nearly 1 billion captive users, Facebook will somehow find a way.
The social network now accounts for 1 in 7 minutes users spend online around the world, according to online metrics firm ComScore Inc. The average Facebook user spent more than 6 hours a month on the service as of October, up almost 40% from a year earlier.
What’s also attractive to many advertisers is Facebook’s broad appeal in key demographics. In the U.S., the largest category of users is those 25 to 34, ages when people are making spending decisions and brand choices they will keep for decades. That’s followed by people ages 35 to 44, when brand loyalties are largely established but when spending power has increased.
“Facebook is so big now that it has multiple core demographics,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at EMarketer Inc., a firm that tracks online advertising. “Not only do you have the original audience of young people that have now grown up, but you’ve got a whole slew of newer young users that are just as active, if not more.”
As its hundreds of millions of users continue to post about where they work, where they live and what they like to do, Facebook continues to gather what is widely regarded as the world’s largest cache of personal data — a treasure trove for businesses looking to reach their ideal customers.
Major corporations and corner drugstores alike have raced to establish a strong Facebook presence, and one of the hottest job titles in corporate America is some version of “social networking coordinator.” GM’s recent decision to pull its ads from Facebook is largely seen as an exception, and one that could be quickly reversed as Facebook improves its ability to sell ads on mobile devices.
Facebook executives like to portray their company as a utility, not just an advertising platform, and the claim is not without merit.
Like Stephens, Abhishek Rai tried to quit Facebook. The 35-year-old software developer from Pune, India, had grown weary of friends’ bragging about their children’s achievements or the new car they had just bought.
Then Rai decided to launch an online shopping business, and he realized that a Facebook profile page would help his fledgling company. So back to Facebook he went.
“In today’s changing times, one of the best (and free) platforms for start-ups to connect with their users … is Facebook,” he wrote in an email. “It would have been almost criminal not to have a Twitter account or Facebook page.”
Many people want to quit Facebook on grounds that the social network is quickly eroding personal privacy, giving employers, government agencies, con artists and others access to information about people that they should not have.
Matthew Milan, a 38-year-old Toronto marketing executive, set up a website, QuitFacebookDay.com in 2010. Nearly 40,000 people pledged to shut down their accounts on May 31, 2010.
Two years after Quit Facebook Day, Milan says nearly every quitter he’s spoken to has returned.
“It’s like quitting smoking,” Milan said. “It’s easy to relapse — you have the habits, the experience, and the comfort of having it be a regular part of your life.”
One of Facebook’s biggest advantages is that there’s really no other place to go. Facebook is by far the world’s largest digital gathering place, and since it vanquished onetime rival Myspace years ago, the only other contender has beenGoogle+, the Mountain View, Calif., search giant’s attempt at social networking. But it has had trouble capturing the public imagination — or regular users.
“It’s so easy to quit something when there’s an alternative,” said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. “You can quit your health club and go to another one, or quit your job and find another one, but if you quit Facebook, where the heck do you go?”
Still, he said, if Facebook gets to the point “where a large minority of users say, ‘I hate this,’ somebody will come up with an alternative.”
Facebook won’t say how many people have completely left the service. But its once meteoric growth has slowed. In the first quarter of 2009, the number of users grew 20% from the previous quarter. During the same period two years later the growth rate dropped to 6.6%, according to the company’s regulatory filing.
Congress has sought to pass Internet privacy bills, including those that would prevent sites such as Facebook from tracking users’ activity around the Web. Facebook listed the prospect of legally mandated changes to its services among the major risks it would face as a public firm.
Nearly 60% of U.S. Facebook users say they don’t trust the firm to keep their information safe, according to a poll released this week by the Associated Press and CNBC. An earlier online survey by the British arm of advertising giant McCann Erickson found that most users believed that Facebook isolates people from one another more than it brings people together.
J.B. Chaykowsky, 30, spent five years as a vigorous Facebook user but recently started thinking ahead. He got married two years ago and is considering having children.
“When they’re 20 years old and their whole life is on there — everything from pee-wee soccer to graduation — what’s that going to be like for them?” he said. “What about all the things you said in jest that could be taken the wrong way? I don’t want people holding that over my kids.”
Chaykowsky, a brand strategist in Dallas, left a single post up on his Facebook page.
“Quit Facebook,” it says, and that’s what he’ll try to do.
david.sarno@latimes.com
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STUDY: People Are Quitting Their Jobs For Increasingly Crazy Reasons
Leaving a job “for personal reasons” just isn’t creative enough these days, it seems.
A new survey by OfficeTeam, a staffing service that specializes in placing administrative professionals, reveals some of the strangest reasons why employees gave notice at companies.
Some of the doozies included leaving the company because an employee “lost her cell phone too many times at work,” or a worker “quit to participate in a reality show.”
Others excused themselves with honesty: They said they were bored, overworked, believed that work was getting in the way of them having fun, or they didn’t believe they were worth the high salary they were receiving.
Some employees left to pursue different career goals, such as becoming an apple farmer, climbing Mount Everest, or entering a beauty contest.
Other reasons included quitting because the employee didn’t like the office’s odor, disliked the cafeteria food, wanted to watch a soccer tournament, had to stay home to feed a pet, or disagreed with the lighting and wall color choice in the office.
The survey was conducted by an independent research firm that conducted phone interviews of more than 1,300 senior managers at companies with 20 or more employees in the U.S. and Canada.
“How you leave a job can be just as important as what you did while you were there,” said Robert Hosking, executive director of OfficeTeam. “Regardless of the reason for resigning, making a graceful exit by tying up loose ends and thanking colleagues shows your professionalism and can help you down the road in your career.”
When leaving a job, OfficeTeam suggests giving proper notice, supplying written instructions to team members on pending projects and assignments, staying positive when saying goodbye to colleagues, wrapping up as many projects as possible before exiting, and honestly participating in an exit interview.
ksamuelson@tribune.com
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The neatest café in the Valley
“This song is about quitting your job and doing what you love,� remarked Old Man Luedecke as he lit into the aptly titled I Quit My Job, wrapping up a terrific concert at the Neat Cafe, perhaps the cosiest music venue in the Ottawa Valley. Housed in a 19th-century schoolhouse, the café also serves as a restaurant, coffee shop and hangout spot for people who find themselves in Burnstown, Ont.
On this cool spring night, a few dozen people sat in the candlelight, their bellies full of comfort food, the smell of home baking coming from the kitchen. Surrounded by exposed brick walls, high ceilings and rows of gig posters, every speck of attention was focused on the rumpled young man on stage. Except for a tiny creak in the stage floor, the sound of Chris Luedecke’s soulful voice and crisp banjo picking was pristine. It was an intense listening experience.
Judging by the glow on her face, the moment was particularly sweet for Kim McKinty, who co-owns the Neat Cafe with her husband, Adam McKinty. A former vice principal, Kim didn’t just daydream about quitting a steady, well-paying job with benefits and a pension. She did it, to pursue the dream that she and Adam had invested in a couple of years earlier. He left his job, too, laid off in a corporate restructuring.
When the couple bought the schoolhouse in 2008, they had no plans to create a music venue or even a coffee house. In fact, it wasn’t even their idea. The idea originated with the former owners.
“We rented a place two doors down,� explains Adam during an interview at the check-in desk before the concert. “The people who lived here had an antique business and lived upstairs. They decided to move so they called us over for dinner and said ‘We want you to buy it.’ They didn’t want to post it because they figured someone would buy it and put a gas station on the property and ruin the town. They were pretty sure we wouldn’t do that.�
Not a chance. Adam and Kim discovered Burnstown when Adam landed a job in Ottawa, and Kim accepted a teaching position in Petawawa. He’s originally from Sudbury and she’s from Peterborough; they liked the vibe of the village community that lay about halfway between their two employers. Everyone immediately made them feel welcome.
The original plan was to create a shop that specialized in wine and fine food, but it seemed the town had a greater need for a place to hang out. “We were really looking to generate a space for people to sit and enjoy the space and interact with each other in a place that’s not their home. It’s that third space, after work and home space,� says Kim.
Fair-trade coffee, roasted on site, is a specialty, while the couple’s interest in food was channelled into a small restaurant that focuses on fresh, local ingredients. During a recent visit, the special was a hearty and satisfying meat loaf with mashed potatoes, green beans and purple slaw. A wood-burning oven turns out delectable thin-crust pizzas, and there is an array of cookies and baked goods.
Although both Adam and Kim are big music fans, hosting concerts wasn’t on their radar until they invited a friend, guitarist Scott Doubt, to perform at an outdoor party. At the time, the backroom of the café was used for storage. Doubt thought it would be a great place for music so they cleared it out and had him back in the fall, setting up a donation box for admission.
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