Why I Don't Tell People 'Quit Your Job and Travel'

After quitting my job last summer, I somehow became the resident expert amongst all my friends who were thinking about quitting their jobs. Or at the very least, hated their jobs enough to threaten to quit.

I always listened attentively and offered my two cents. After all, most of these were problems I'd heard before. Then the conversation would get to this: "Maybe I'll just quit my job and travel." And that's when I stopped the discussion.

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