Quiet Fired and Quiet Quit: Who Moved My Cheese? 

I’m so impressed with your ability to delay gratification both at work and in order to earn your PhD🥳🙌🏼!!! Although I’m angry on your behalf about the lack of appreciation for your talents (which they clearly had no problem identifying, even if they refused to pay for them), I’m glad you have made it through to the other side, and are enjoying your good life!

Thank you so much for your words. Just what I needed to hear today 😊

I’m purposefully a temp employee in the medical field. I work when I want and travel when I want. Sometimes I’ll work weeks with OT, some weeks just part time and many weeks not at all. It took me quite a while to get here, but the first major step was dramatically living below my means (which included dumping the $500K house in the suburbs for an old farm house fixer upper in the country).

Your life experiences and career path are so fascinating! Keep making videos. 😁

Great question…..profound. Your experiences with your former government employer really ticks me off, so disrespectful and unprofessional of them. Its truely shameful. I really dislike when there is absolutely no appreciation. Thanks for sharing :)

This is so good, Dr. Ninja Turtle! I really admire you for being able to stick with your government job for 10 years with that pension in mind. When I was teaching, retirement just wasn't enough to make me stay. I took a huge pay cut and now we struggle a bit but it is so much better for us as a family. I want to hear more about your stories. Was life hard working there all day and going to school at night? How did you keep from being bitter? Your seemingly chill personality amazes me.

Jan 8, 2023, quiet quitting made absolute sense to me as the company I worked for did a lot of shady stuff against their employees. Sounds like you in the DMV like us. But before that, I tried work like balance, same thing know looking at it now, but I stopped work, and turned off computer. set my phone down and only looked at it if I had to go somewhere. If it died over the weekend, it died. I didn't answer it, regardless who it is, and I leave it in the office when I am done for the day/weekend.... now that I am retired, I have it but more for discord, music and youtube. but it is never in my bedroom or glued in my hand. Love the topic.