re: Anybody here ever just spontaneously quit an unfulfilling job?

The fall semester of my last year at LSU, I was working for a large general contractor in BR after completing a pretty substantial summer internship with a company comparable in size in Houston. I went from actually contributing to a project management team and doing actual construction-related tasks to filing business development credit card bills and organizing invoices. I took it as an insult, as I had all of this relevant experience and they essentially stuck me in an administrative assistant's role. I called in one day, said I had a test rescheduled and couldn't come in to work, and then pulled an Office Space and just....stopped going. Burned a bridge, but I was way better off and it opened me up to other opportunities. Don't regret it at all

Tl;dr - Yes

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Anybody here ever just spontaneously quit an unfulfilling job?

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my first job out of MBA school was a restaurant manager job for chilis

I had been with the company for 8 years, bartending/serving for 6 while in school and managed for about 2 years

I knew it wouldn't be my longterm career and my GM was horrible.

Long story short things were just getting worse and worse at our particular location.

It was the Friday night before the game of the century (Bama Nov 5th 2011), we had a rough shift, real rough, i had been thinking about hanging it up, so I closed the books and checked everyone out and shut the restaurant down.

I wrote a note to let them know i wasn't coming back and left the key in the office. Went home, slept 5 hours, got on the road to Bama, met up with "da Krewe", redneck, mylsuhat, etc. Partied it up and went to the game.....All when I was supposed to have a shift that saturday night. To note i got a game ticket for 100 bucks when they were going for 300.

That was the last time LSU beat bama.......So what will it take for LSU to beat bama this year????

I did back in March. Company's image is shite. Unless you were a higher-up (Sr. Manager, VP, etc) you were expendable and they treated you as such. One Tuesday I came in and said frick it. Sent my boss and the head of IT an email saying thanks, but i'm out.

Two weeks later on my birthday started at a new company with better pay that values their employees and for the first time in 2 years I look forward to coming into work. I know I got lucky, but the shite company/job was beginning to affect how I acted and treated people outside of work so I knew it was time to go.

No matter how terrible my job is, I would never just quit. I would not put myself or my family at risk until I had something lined up.

Yes.

Kinda, I put my two weeks notice in and my boss shite me on telling me I would have to work 12/hrs each day and 6 days a week (normally it was 5 8/hr days). I worked the first day to see if he was bullshitting he was not. Went in the second day worked till 1st break, mainly to say bye to everyone that I liked, then walked into his office told him to frick off and left. Driving home felt amazing.

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imagine I'll do it one day, grab my shite and head for the mountains and just sell firewood on the side of the road for the rest of my life.

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Where will you get the wood?

By looking at Ashley Graham photos

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Anybody here ever just spontaneously quit an unfulfilling job?

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My wife. That was fun.

Once. Was a service manager for a GM car dealership for over 10 years in Nashville. Left there after dealership was sold and a year later moved to Florida after getting engaged. First job in FL was GM of a franchise (13 in state of FL) auto repair shop. These folks who owned it were all about the dollar and didn't give a shite about customers. Techs were shade tree guys who couldn't do much more than a brake job. I ended up having to diagnose most repairs. They would also push unneeded repairs on people and if you were not pushing then your pay would drop. I woke up one morning , looked at my SO and said "I can't honestly work for these people or treat customers this way anymore". I felt it was my name on the line just as much as the businesses. I was done. Never even called to explain due to me explaining what I thought was wrong many times.