And once I realized I was in control, I quit trying to get more of it.
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"Ever since I quit, I've worked every single day and loved it, " he said.
He decided to only pay me 25% of what I was earning and I quit.
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It all started when I quit my journalism job in order to pursue my dream of being a singer-songwriter.
"It became a little destructive, so I quit cold turkey and I decided to write something, " she says.
Thanks to the Mac, I quit my job at the ad agency and went into business for myself.
Well, it's a month since the day I quit and I'm sorry to say I'm not doing so well.
His wish came true: "My life improved drastically once I quit, " Cohen says.
And eventually I was able to get really good, and then it was a lot of fun because I quit falling.
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"I quit architecture because I knew it was too late for me to start a career here in the U.S., " he says.
Briefly: I quit English and literature and the people who wrote it for good, I thought and became a packaging-science major.
Yes, my current lifestyle has made me less risk-averse, and I have spent time in places I was scared to go before I quit my job.
In early 2000, I quit my job as a financial analyst in Dallas and joined the Navy to pursue the most challenging special operations training in the world.
Offering a cigarette is a common way to greet someone, a handy ice-breaker especially in awkward situations (I myself used to do that until I quit smoking 30 years ago).
But I think most challenging part of my life really started when I quit all my jobs, really cut all my salaries and really did something I wanted to do.
When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work, they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or, more accurately, the nine-to-midnight), leaving contracts, negotiations and lawsuits behind.
When my manager had asked for something in writing some sort of guarantee that our equipment wouldn't be destroyed Jerry Lee's manager had replied, "Hell, when I started working for Jerry Lee, I quit guaranteeing anything!"
After all, I quit the practice of law in part because getting paid on an hourly or retainer basis could never be as interesting (or profitable) as creatively managing an investment banking, brokerage and investigative services firm.
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So the bad grades were one reason I quit English, but there was an-other reason, a bigger reason: I couldn't shake the feeling that there was something else I should be doing, something I hadn't tried or considered, something new and better.
In the three months that followed last year's ad--one of which featured a computerized heart jumping out a woman's body and holding up a sign that says "I Quit"--CareerBuilder says that it saw a 68% increase in job applications and a 10% increase in online traffic.
"If I were the AACS, I would quit while I was behind, " he says.
But I never quit because I was passionate about the problem that I was solving.
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The thought of working with only a lunch break isn't nice, but I will quit and I will have to do it.
"I love the Big East, but if the Big East was the same as it was, or even remotely the same, I would quit because I wouldn't be happy, " he said.
" Responding to a question about "Twilight" on a Yahoo Answers page, a reader wrote, "I never quit reading a book because I think the style of writing is bad.
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