She once coached a young woman who quit a job she detested, fibbing to her boss that she was moving to London.
The drug's inventor, Randall Lauffer, quit a job as a chemist at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital to develop his idea for the drug.
Clay Reid, who quit a tenured job at Harvard, studies the mouse visual cortex.
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She had quit a stable job as an art teacher and put her savings into starting her own fashion label.
Plus, if you reframe a decision to quit your job as a practical learning experience versus something more stereotypical, it goes a long way toward convincing those around you to support your choice.
Entrepreneur Emile Petrone has a solution: quit your job, move to a remote location for two months, and teach yourself how to code, which is exactly what he did last July.
In the early 1970s, when a relative was diagnosed with a mental illness, Mr. Chung quit his job at a paper factory and, at age 27, started a mental hospital.
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Acevedo's family has described him as a dedicated family man who quit his job to become a stay-at-home father.
Why did George Shaheen, the well-paid head of Andersen Consulting, quit to take a job running a new on-line business?
When the airline declined the invitation, Ornstein quit to take a job running entrepreneur Richard Branson's new low-fare Virgin Express airline.
When we quit a good paying job to start a business we anticipate that owning our own business will mean more fun and more money.
Marriages where a successful female can quit her job and stay home, meanwhile, are labeled a "tragedy" for female advancement.
In 1995, Dr. Agrawal quit his job as a government health minister to become a philanthropist.
Aged 33, he's quit his job as a journalist but plans to go back when he's 50.
She started selling so many sweaters, tops, dresses and shoes that she decided to quit her job as a nurse and just sell on Poshmark.
Doyle decided one snowy day in New York to quit his job as a bank accountant and chase his dreams on the snowy slopes of Vermont.
He is one of a growing army of new teachers who have quit a high-flying job to teach, according to the Training and Development Agency for Schools.
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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.
She recently quit her job as a nonprofit communications manager and magazine editor and moved to the opposite coast to be a freelance journalist, copywriter, blogger, and communications professional.
He has been out of work since the fall of 2010, when he quit his job as a marketing manager for a small wine shop to seek work at a larger company.
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.
"We're like a young buck who thinks it is his time to shine, " says Mr. Sullivan, the Nationals fan, who this year quit his job as a financial adviser to blog full time about the team.
Arthur X-Man, who quit his job on a free-range chicken farm in eastern England to join the movement, joked that he and other occupiers felt a little like refugees, and said they were searching for a new place to Occupy.
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For the most part, people do not quit a company per se, but they quit their job either for lack of fulfillment or leadership.
Ferguson did quit her day job about a year ago and now works full time on the business.
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They decided early in her career at Dell that Steve would quit his job and be a stay-at-home dad when they moved to London.
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After graduating in 2000, Teng took a job as a computer engineer, but quit this past spring to perform her music around the country.
Former tech support worker Robert Johnston quit his job to pursue a freelance career because he was tired of running around after workplace technophobes and getting very little gratitude in return.
After running his West Loop property as a weekend diversion for two years, he quit his investment banking job in 1998 and began working toward a business degree.
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