Wondering if you should QUIET QUIT your job? Watch THIS first…

What is quiet quitting and should you try it at your job? In this video I talk about the right way to quietly quit your job and my experience quietly quitting my 9-5.

I also touch on how long to quiet quit before actually quitting, whether or not it’s sustainable to quiet quit at work, and how my corporate job reacted to my quiet quit.

I end by talking through some tips about how to make the most out of your quiet quit!

Let me know in the comments below how you've been doing ♡

xx Paige

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// Timestamps:
00:00 What is quiet quitting?
00:42 My experience quitting my 9-5
02:45 How I quietly quit my job
03:24 Is it morally acceptable to quietly quit your job?
04:20 How my job reacted to me quietly quitting
05:52 Is quiet quitting sustainable?
07:43 Here is how to quietly quit your job the RIGHT way
08:45 Another way to quiet quit your work

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#quietquitting #shouldyouquietlyquityourjob #iquitmy9-5

[dallassukerkin]

Listening to this made me realise that what I had actually done before I threw in the towel was 'quietly quitting'. I'd do my job, hit my deadlines, not screw anything up ... but I would not do extra hours, go above and beyond for such things as administration or QA or turn into work if I was unwell with such as a cold (not too big a deal what with COVID kicking off).

When I gave my notice in, that was the most free I have ever felt in my life - I knew that at some point I was going to have to find a new source of income but for that first month I could literally feel how I was standing straighter and with my head up. It's easy to say if you have a buffer of some savings, I know, but *never* be a corporate slave. If they try to shackle you then walk away.

[rebecca_stone]

Great self-reflection! I think "quiet quitting" just a new name for reaching a natural / subconscious end-point in a job. As for morals / ethics, there is a "right" way to do it, as you've described, plus morals go both ways. If you've been passionate and gone all-in at your job over a long time, yet your company doesn't hesitate to cut budgets or pull crucial resources for you to do it well or achieve goals, that's no different ethically from you drawing the line and pursuing other opportunities.

[lolomissa]

i was thinking about this and i asked my bestfriend about it... they just laughed at me like 'that's just working' 🤣🤣🤣 that was how i realized i was basically an over achiever in my adult life 🤣🤣🤣

[FoxRider]

As a chemical engineer who worked in pharmaceutical for many years I knew from day one that I wanted out but needed to build my wealth. Since I got overtime for working 60 hr a week and lived off a little cash every week. I was able to purchase my first home and than a few more every year. I would rent them out and pay down most of the balance but would use the home’s equity to purchase another home. Ultimately once my exited plan was set I submitted my two week. The company countered with a 15% raised but I said NO. Now that I’m 30 years old I longer have to work because my homes are paid off and I’m basically just living off renters. In my free time I was able to get my PE and started my own company working in special design with battery technology. I believe working hard every day has its benefits and builds character in people. Your Quit Quitting is new to me and is the 1st I have ever heard of it. I think it’s a great way for people to understand their position and plan their next career path. Best of luck to everyone out there.

[CJx]

This is 100% true. I went "above and beyond" for years and the only praise I received was being called a "brown nose."

Do the bare minimum, play dumb, don't over-achieve because they do not deserve you and your mental energy should be going to something you actually enjoy.

[Mdroudian]

If you're quiet quitting but still getting your job done... Then you have accomplished what you agreed to do when you were hired. END OF STORY.

[alexa]

Good video topic. I noticed as I get closer to retirement I find myself quietly quiting. I find that is I submerge myself into planning for retirement and getting my home and paperwork at home in order I too become more productive at work, must be cuz I am overall happier.

[luminyam]

Now that I look back on it, I basically quiet quit my job way way back almost at the beginning. Nurse here, I started out on a medical floor that was also a step down unit for ICU in a major hospital in Montreal back in 1976. I realized then that I didn't care for the adrenaline rush of ICU, CCU, ER kind of thing and management did not appeal to me either. I loved ppl though and I really loved older ppl. I got into geriatric care, usually working evenings or nights and it is just me and my patients and my co workers. I loathe the hospital corporation that I work for but I so love my patients and my little group of coworkers. I am currently working in the twilight of my career in geriatric rehab and let me tell you, this last couple of years have been a trip. My patients have been so outstanding, they have acted so heroically in such terrifying circumstances, I have been very proud of them (and told them so). My coworkers have been absolute gems, so I have been very lucky. There are times when quiet quitting is the only thing you can do to survive. If that is the case, try to get yourself into the best possible position to survive and if possible, thrive in it. There are still some career paths you can take where you can stash yourself in a corner, and make a good life for yourself in all the chaos that is life. That being said, I am old now and also quietly terrified for our younger generations. What has been done to you is nothing short of criminal. Humans are awfully stupid and shortsighted. I am also constantly impressed by your resilience in the face of these odds. I find young ppl today incredibly brave. Frankly, I think the world we live in is apocalyptical.🤕😟

[poppycalliope]

this is the first time that I hear about quiet quitting but it just makes sense! I can't say that I ever did that but I definitely felt more relaxed as soon as I gave my 2 weeks notice cause before that I was always stressed out at work trying to be the best employee, I didn't even take breaks, it was getting unhealthy. a very interesting video indeed 👏✨️

[SueIngram]

OMG - Great and superb summary of your personal experience of Quit Quitting. I have been a career coach and so have supported many individuals to Quiet Quit as they have searched for another opportunity that they are enthusiastic about. Your story about how once you took control back over your life, started developing your new career, lightened in your view of life, whilst still doing the 'honorable' thing of completing your 9-5 and suddenly discovered 'Hey, I am being noticed and appreciated suddenly' is no surprise to me!!! Seen it a 100 times! The stress you were under was largely self-induced - yep I know it came from really good intentions - but with the need to do really good came stress (which you passed onto other people) and a desperation (not nice to be around) and a sort of neediness 'Am I doing good? Am I good enough? Please tell me I am good enough!' (draining to be around!).
SO glad you learned this valuable career lesson early in life - the secret to a great career? Do something that excites and invigorates you (yep, even as you work long hours at it!) that way success follows as people vie to have you on their team and to work with you.
You also learned what happens if you quiet quit without taking the responsibility for finding a rewarding job - depression! You know those negative cynical people that no-one wants to be around at work - that is what they allowed to have happen to them!

[sinshenn]

I didn't even realize this was a concept but it's so eye opening. Loved hearing your experience!!

[monktarot]

Quietly quitting my job as a gemologist at a jewelry store while taking my online classes for my bachelors in graphic design. I finish most of my papers and school work while working and stopped talking to my toxic co worker altogether when before I felt like I had to.

[caroldanvers]

I really like the idea from quiet quitting. I'm pursuing some ecom businesses on the side and have been doing this since 7 months ago. It's really cool making additional income on the side. I'm building 3 more ecom stores in my free time.

[stever]

It’s hard for me to quietly quit. I can’t help but put in effort in everything I do.

[scottfx]

You mentioned something on Smerconish's show recently about the GiG economy. There was a landmark book by Diane Mulcahy published a few years ago about this topic and in it, she notes that futurists who look at the changing nature of work estimate that 46% of the workforce would be employed as freelance or contract workers by 2030. I think that the Pandemic has brought this forward by probably a decade and like a stone dropped into a quiet pond has produced ripples that we are just starting to recognize. As a skilled knowledge worker, I think you and others like you just are waking up to the fact that companies don't care a lick about you. They want your labor and your skills, and you contribute to them making a profit. As an ethical value if they pay you a salary based on 40hrs per week you should deliver on that contract, however, they don't treat that as a two-way street. The average pay gap between CEO salaries in the top 300 American companies and the median workers' salaries in those companies is $670 to $1. What justifies this kind of pay gap? That's 3/5ths of the Fortune 500, for the rest of all US companies the number is estimated at $350 to $1. In Japan, this number is $67 to $1 and in Europe (Germany) the average CEO makes $147 for every $1 the average worker in his/her company makes. So what justifies the huge pay gap in the largest US companies? If you work for one of those companies are they typically demanding you work 50hrs or 60hrs weeks in exchange for 40hrs pay? I was born in the last year of the baby boom and grew up in the 1970s when people used to think about taking jobs with companies that offered pensions and benefits. People were told to be loyal to the company and looked forward to basically lifetime employment. Those days are long gone, we are the only major country in the industrialized world that doesn't provide universal health care for its population and are the least supported workforce in the world in terms of social safety net, particularly for women. American workers work longer hours and take less vacation than any other industrialized nation. Is it any wonder that so many people suffer from mental health issues? It just seems that the old social contracts between workers and the companies they work for are broken. Think about it workers can be laid off at will or aged out of the corporate system when companies realize that they can fire someone in their 50s and hire two recent college grads to replace them. Lather rinse repeat. The Republicans talk a very good game about family values and now with the Dobbs decision seem to be trying to push their message that having more children should be a societal virtue. Except for there is one problem with this, they have yet to provide any proposals for things like child care. If you as a woman are expected to have more children how are you expected to support them? Don't get me started on the 401k thing or how much money you as a millennial would be expected to save over your working life to have what we might call a "dignified retirement". People can of course decide what that means but as part of the definition I would think being free from want and worry probably comes into the discussion somewhere. Those 401k's were a bonanza for Wall Street and Corporations too as they shifted the fiduciary responsibility from Corporations to provide pension benefits for their workers to the private sector and really to the individuals themselves because nobody forces you to contribute to the company 401k programs or tells you what mix of investments is appropriate to your risk tolerance. So has this really benefited the average worker in tangible ways? None of our established social systems recognize that people are getting older or living longer. More than 50% of my generation have nothing at all put aside for retirement WTF? For the other 50% that do have at something put aside, for the majority of people in that category it's not going to be enough and they run the serious risk of outliving their savings. This is going to come to a crisis and politicians looking for votes are going to have to address this because seniors a block vote. The burden is going to be shifted to the younger generations to carry the load. You can look at the Mutual Fund industry for this data it's all available. It used to be that you could build wealth in this country by following the rules of working for a good company and owning a home and for those that wanted to send their kids to college and retire at 65. Fortunately, I read a book in the 1980s called Multiple Streams of Income by Robert Allen and the ideas in the book always stuck with me. It used to be that with a corporate job, home ownership, careful saving, and investment, and 40 years of work you could achieve the American dream and probably look forward to a "dignified" retirement. Is that really the reality today when 46% of the workforce is forecast to be working freelance or contract work without benefits? In my opinion, you are on the right track, yes by all means take a corporate job to start yourself off but if you have tech skills you should definitely start your own side hustles, if you don't have tech skills then figure out a way to get some because what's apparent to me is that there are a whole lot of people in this country that are going to be left behind by the tech skills gap.

[LuiKang]

*sigh* it's called Work To Rule and it's a labour action of malicious compliance. Labelling it 'quiet quitting' is to blame the worker whereas Work To Rule puts the blame squarely on the employer.

It is the bare minimum one can do in the absence of collective action like unionisation.

[driatros]

How would you feel if you found out that the surgeon who’s about to operate on you “quiet quit” his job?

[Tucker]

I've been stuck in this spot for probably 4 years now. I can tell ya that if you're not good at the whole corporate politics circus nonsense then industrial analytical chemistry is the biggest dead end kind of field you can be in. Wish I could start something on the side but I just don't got the time and energy.

[MckensyLong]

I went into engineering too! Also a recovering engineer. Good job!

[OB.x]

I actually got a promotion quiet quitting. Too many ppl kept quitting lol