This is the fifth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Here, I share the reasons why we don’t let go and the importance of doing so in order to move forward.
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“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
Letting go can be scary.
There was a part of me that clung onto my job, despite how much I disliked it.
I know I wasn’t alone in this. Too many of us stick around in situations, labels or relationships that were maybe fitting at one point, but we’ve since outgrown.