Slashdot -Qutting jobs?

An interesting thread in Slashdot on When Should you Quit your job? What do you all think?

Should one quit if —

a) If you are slogging for an inhumanly 14 hours on an average every day and are grossly underpaid (if you know what industry standards are). And your company tells you that you are here for the challenges and that money is not everything in life!

b) If you are unhappy for a prolonged period with the kind of work you do.

c) If you are unhappy with your work environment (coworkers, managers) and do not see any hopes of anything changing.

d)Everyday seems like a Monday and no amount of sleep alleviates the tiredness.

I don’t mean to say that one should consider ‘quitting’ as the first option if only one of the above is true and if you are happy with everything else. You never know what might be in store at your new workplace. There could me more morons to work with there than your current workplace! Instead of acting in haste, one should give himself/herself enough time to weigh the other options and see if things can change for the better. If not, you would be better of leaving than sticking behind. Remember in the latter case, you are just ‘adjusting’ yourself. My personal experience has been that if I’m not happy in the 8 hours I spend at work, I’m not happy when I get back home too.

Black Thursday

Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong today. It started with my co-worker’s machine crashing. When they were attempting to fix that, there was a power outage in that section of the office which escalated a lil later to the entire floor. It was fun. I was working on a critical file after hearing the famous s/w dialogue all morning “It works here and it is the same file. Then why doesn’t it work there?”. Just when I started debugging, the outage crashed my system. When we brought it back, I was delighted to see that my files were corrupted and had a square box all over…what a day!

On blogging
Check out this one on Blogging therapy Many people have asked me why I waste time blogging. I don’t have an answer. It is just makes me feel good. I think I agree with this –”When you get home you have all these feelings because you really can’t say what you want to say. You write it down and you feel much better –” But I take care not to mention the name of my employer or reveal any incidents so as not to get in trouble..
I have decided to branch out my thoughts on JSF and work into 2 new blogs. The one on JSF is titled “Making Java Server Faces Work”. Will reveal the one on work shortly.

No personal comments on this one. Have you heard these words before? Very motivating….