Wouldn't it be better to quit your job and spend your life on what you love? A book about thinking about lifestyle, freedom, and reality
Wouldn't it be better to quit your job and spend your life on what you love?
A book about thinking about lifestyle, freedom, and reality
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Introduction
One day, you suddenly think.
* Waking up at the same time every day
* Crowded trains
* Relationships that require walking on eggshells
* Work you don't want to do
* Days where only time passes
In the midst of that,
“Is it okay for this life to end like this?”
you feel.
And you think this:
“Wouldn't it be better to quit my job and spend my time on what I love?”
This question is not an escape.
It is an essential question of life.
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Chapter 1: The most precious thing in life is time
Money has the potential to be increased.
However,
* Today's day
* This month
* This year
* Youth
* Physical strength
will not return.
In other words,
the greatest asset in life is time.
If you spend that time only on things you dislike,
a strong sense of emptiness emerges.
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Chapter 2: The value of a life spent on what you love
When you spend time on what you love,
* Your heart feels lighter
* Learning becomes deeper
* It is easier to continue
* Your true self returns
* Your sense of satisfaction with life increases
can happen.
For example,
* Travel
* Creation
* Learning
* Sports
* Family time
* Living in nature
* Small business
These have great value depending on the person.
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Chapter 3: However, there are also practical problems with “zero work”
In modern society,
* Rent
* Food expenses
* Taxes
* Medical expenses
* Communication costs
are incurred.
Therefore,
having no income while only doing what you love
is difficult for many people to sustain.
The problem may not be the work itself,
but the state of only being able to choose a way of working you dislike.
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Chapter 4: When you want to quit your job, what do you really want to quit?
In many cases, what you want to quit is not the entire job, but
* Relationships
* Commuting
* Low wages
* Meaningless tasks
* Working hours
* Anxiety about the future
* An environment where you are not evaluated
is.
In other words,
work = enemy
is often not the case.
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Chapter 5: The ideal is “what you love + source of income”
Realistically, this form is strong.
Examples
* Monetizing by sharing knowledge you love
* Teaching hobbies
* Small-scale online sales
* Individual business using AI
* Semi-working, semi-free life
Quit everything, or endure everything,
it is not a choice between those two.
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Chapter 6: Ways of quitting that destroy your life, ways of quitting that change it
Dangerous ways to quit
* Resigning on impulse with zero savings
* Deciding only with emotions
* No preparation at all
Good ways to quit
* Securing living expenses
* Preparing the next source of income
* Starting to learn
* Trying things out on a small scale
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Chapter 7: To those who don't know what they love
That is also normal.
When you have been tired for a long time,
you stop knowing what you love.
At that time,
* Taking a short walk
* Reading a new book
* Remembering what you used to love
* Trying things out on a small scale
is enough.
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Chapter 8: Discarding other people's values
In the world,
* Being a regular employee is justice
* Promotion is success
* Busy people are great
there is an atmosphere like that.
But what is really important is
whether you are convinced
is.
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Chapter 9: Not just what you love, but “reducing what you dislike”
Life improvement,
rather than 100% what you love,
* Reducing unpleasant commuting
* Reducing unpleasant relationships
* Reducing wasteful spending
* Reducing meaningless time
even this will change things significantly.
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Chapter 10: Conclusion
I want to quit my job and spend my life on what I love.
That feeling is natural.
Because,
the time of life is finite.
However, realistically,
rather than a life of only what you love,
a life design that brings you closer to what you love
is a stronger choice.
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What I want to convey at the end
There is no need for your life to be eaten by work.
But,
there is no need to escape to the point of destroying your life.
What is important is
* Reclaiming your time
* Re-choosing how you work
* Getting closer to what you love
is.
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Summary in one word
The true intention of wanting to quit a job is often not “I don't want to work,” but “I want to live my own life.”
