HOW I QUIT My Last JOB

Captain’s Log
Stardate: August 7, 2023 …

If you want to have what most don't have, you have to dare to do what few have dared.

Learn how to quit a job and be labeled as crazy.

This is what you gotta do:

February 14th 2023 …

On the 7th Tuesday of the year ..

I looked around for about 3 hours while seated at my desk.

I observed every single co worker.

Went to the restroom a few times and looked myself at the mirror.

“I need … a Higher Power” I said.

On my first break, I walked out and sat on a bench. I closed my eyes and saw my spirit.

I found my children in the realm of my thoughts.

“If I won’t become great, my children won’t have any reference for success. If I stick with jobs for my next 40 to 50 years, they will be mediocre. I want my grandchildren hanging a huge photo of me on the walls of their living rooms having me as their hero. I am legend.” - I constantly thought.

Got back to my desk and started thinking of how stupid Corporate America treats their employees.

“OUR TEAM HAS MADE A GREAT ACHIVEMENT!! YOU GUYS DESERVE PIZZA!”

but what about a good raise?

“YOU GOT 5 MINUTES LATE! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?

but what about me working 45 minutes after my scheduled shift without getting paid?

Let’s start off by saying that the maternity leave in United States is a total garbage.

Look at my situation:

I had to get to bed at 11 pm, wake up at 4 am, so I could be at work at 4:45 am and work till 2 pm to then finally be paid $2,500 after taxes because I was “in training”. My third son was just born and they gave me 10 days to adapt to the new schedule.

This is uttermost ridiculous.

My wife with our newborn baby and third child.

The most powerful nation on earth gives 12 weeks ONLY on maternity leave but some companies like this one I had the “privilege to work for” gave me 10 days. 10 days for parents to take care of their newborns on a paid leave and adapt to the new schedule.

I called the HR and sent them an e-mail asking for an additional month and they literally laughed at my request.

There was no way for me to keep up with that job. A Newborn wakes up every 3 hours to eat, my wife just had a C-section and couldn't move much, I still had two kids to take care of and this happened in the winter and everyone got sick. I mean.. all the household responsibility was on my shoulders and they gave me 10 days to adapt.

When HR along with my manager denied my approval to take a month off to take care of my family, I knew this job was not worth my efforts. My family is my main business. Corporate America doesn't care about my family, I don't give a sh^%&% about their company. You don’t help me take care of my business, screw yours. This is how I work and this is a principle you could adopt and use it to your advantage. Corporate America just wants to be helped out and love taking advantage of citizens like you and me.

This job promised me a steady monthly salary plus commissions. It was a freight company. They knew I was a computer expert from my interview and that I was able to master multiple systems at once and learn them quickly. Although I failed the math exams they gave me several times, I found it strange when they insisted on new chances for me to pass the exams. I literally took the same exam 5 times. This is not normal in a job interview.

I received the job offer and started working and crushing it. They wanted me to take care of truck loads. Find loads and assign loads to truck drivers across the country using multiple systems. I learned to do this very quickly and while working for this company, they gave me another exam. The exam was about a lot of questions about truck types, loads, systems and everything you can think of about freight. I passed this exam with a 99% rate.

Immediately after my results, they transferred me to a drayage department and did not assign me any mentors. That was terrible. That was terrible because now I was going to be paid the same salary with a lower commission. Nobody wanted to train me either. Nobody wanted to train me because if they trained me fully, I would be more of a competitor within the company. And because I was doing so well at it, my co-workers were extremely scared. This is a big problem in jobs where you need depend on your commission base to make a living.

So now I would get to work, arrive at 4:45 am and stay until 2:00 pm doing absolutely nothing. I was still in my months of training and without a mentor to guide me on the job, I was pretty much useless.

Also, the company made me sign a non-compete agreement. They wanted to make sure that once I left that job, I wouldn't start a similar business.

When I realized that my own job had set me up, I started brainstorming and drew a few lines about the hours of my life on a piece of paper. I learned that I only had 3 hours of my daily life to myself and getting up early to work wasn't helping.

Since 2016, I've been gaining all kinds of knowledge on how to become an entrepreneur with very successful local entrepreneurs. I bought a lot of online courses, workshops, traveled a lot, drove a lot, bought thousands of books, podcasts, audios, and so on…. to get stuck in a job?

I couldn't believe that God made me cross the seas as an immigrant... so I could be stuck in a job... inside a cubicle... working 8 hours... for a low salary … with people that don’t even care for my family... that doesn't make sense...

So when I got the email from HR with my managers' approval, I knew my life was between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being assured of mediocrity.

At that moment, when I realized that I was about to become like everyone else around me, I started to pack my things in my backpack. Slowly got up and stood in front of my computer for a solid 3 minute mark. Once again, I looked around and ignored my co-workers. For the first time in my life, I was able to identify them as a bunch of losers.

I was the real winner.

Once again I went to the bathroom, put myself together, looked in the mirror and said, “As long as you work at this job, you are working for someone else's dreams. The time has come for you to work and fight for your own dreams. There are no second choices at this point, I'M DECIDED TO LEAVE JOBS FOR GOOD. I DETERMINE THAT THIS IS MY LAST JOB FOR LIFE, PERIOD. FROM NOW ON I AM A FULL-TIME ENTREPRENEUR! GOD, I ACCEPT MY CALLING AND DESTINY! HERE I AM, SEND ME!”

When I walked out of that bathroom, I was laughing out of nowhere.

Slowing down again, I walked past my co-workers... on the way out, I saw a guy who was always stalking me for no reason... you know … those coworkers that are always on your tail, to make sure you’re going to fail … I waved at him and said: “see you never loser”...

I got into my car, started the engine and never looked back. I never told anyone I was quitting. I never called HR to resign. I JUST LEFT.

I took my business very seriously and two months later I was on vacation with my wife and our newborn baby in Hawaii.

5 months later, I was in Brazil doing my first International Workshop for Entrepreneurs.

Either you choose to be what God has called you to be, or you choose to be enslaved by this evil system.

God, Family, Nation, Business, Ministries.