Guys Who Quit Their Jobs During ‘The Great Resignation’ on Life on the Other Side
In the wake of the pandemic-induced economic meltdown, Greg, a 33-year-old investment customer service specialist in California, found working at a financial brokerage firm to be more intense and draining than he ever expected. And so, it wasn’t long before he quit.
As it turns out, he was part of a tsunami of such resignations. For four consecutive months this summer, roughly 4 million American workers quit their job (the typical monthly number is around 2.5 million). In fact, in August, nearly 3 percent of the entire American workforce walked off the job. This massive turnover has become known as “The Great Resignation,” and it’s left labor experts debating what exactly is causing such a mass exodus and if it will spark an unprecedented social realignment in the way Americans value work.
To get more of a (former) 9-to-5 perspective, I reached out to a trio of guys who recently left their jobs to find out why they up and quit and how they’re feeling about that decision now.
