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What to do if you win the lottery 101
or dead
I used to fantasize about doing this.
When it got to a point that I was making careful plans for how to effectively remove all traces of my existence before walking into the sea or something, I realized that it was probably not a good thing that I was fixating on this "fantasy" and how attractive it was becoming, so I went to a nice little family mental health clinic in walking distance.
I was diagnosed with depression, PTSD and general anxiety disorder. A few years and a few rounds of therapy and medication later and I'm... still struggling. But at least I'm not planning my exit. There's a lot to live for, but you can't see it when your brain starts running away with your mental narratives. Don't ruminate, don't fantasize. Get some help and do something new with your lives.
I'm in a similar situation. I recognize the planning of my exit. I used to do that in the past. Or well. Maybe it's not all in my past yet. But I'm doing my best.
All the best to you.
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Good ideas, all around. I'm glad you didn't walk into the sea. I have walked through that dark place myself and it led me to get a therapist who knew exactly what that was like. I learned how to help myself. It's been ten years since then.
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Suicide then, unlikely anyone else could delete all his social media.
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Who hasn't watched "Searching for Italy" and thought, "Yeah, Italy's fucking awesome! I could totally make it there!"?
eh, you can make it, but life's not that comfortable here
It's not bad if you have money. Southern Italy is getting pretty toasty, though.
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Can you define that? For me, all I really care about is A/C and an internet connection
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My dad did this to an asshole client. Fucked his practice up lol.
Living the dream from the bottom of the Tiber river.
I did something close to this, not as far as corsican though.
I booked a holiday for feb, and I gave my notice that my leaving would kick in just before.
I burned myself out at a startup about 20 years ago. Walked into my bosses office & told him I quit. Was on the other side of the planet a few days later. I did eventually return home though.
Interesting that this is "Livin the dream". It happened at my friend's workplace and the leading theory is that he did some diddling and is escaping the repercussions. Guess it's a fine line...
Cheated on his wife. Kid diddler. Embezzlement.
They're never as juicy as people like to think it is. It's usually something lame like depression or raising diddlers.
Depression and raising toddlers can both be the result of ill-advised diddling
I quit my startup like that.
We were making it: we were eking by and just starting to turn the corner when one of the partners did some legal wrangling to grab power. FineYouDoIt.jpg because I'd had enough already and prepped my next job.
Hopped a plane. Hopped another. Hopped another. Three people on the planet knew where I was: Mom, GF, and guy who bashes bags at the local airport who saw my name on the flight manifest and checked my connection. Went to the waiting apartment to start the next day. Never looked back, didn't answer email except when Cop friend emailed and asked whether I was missing. Nope, so case closed.
Wait, so you just bailed on your girlfriend?
I'm curious about that too
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But why
Step one in his plan of stealing the declaration of Independence
He said he just had enough
A resignation would've worked just fine. I guess maybe paired with a restraining order if all of this was even remotely necessary.
I’ve been in a few situations before where it’s been incredibly tempting to just not show up because:
- Your management doesn’t value your input
- Nepotism is prevalent when promotions come around
- You’re not doing the type of work that was advertised in the job post and discussed your first two weeks
- You’re doing excellent work solving difficult and/or outstanding problems but someone else gets the credit
Sure, you could put in a notice of resignation, but if you know that your manager is going to harass you for reasons why, possibly belittle you, and try to guilt-trip you into giving more time to the company to “finish out” tasks on your queue that they’ve not bothered to train anyone else on that you’ve requested over the last two years, then wanting to cut ties as quickly as possible given the toxic environment is a fairly normal desire.
Not saying it’s the right thing to do, and all the flight-hopping that OP claims does seem a tad strange, but sometimes people end up in a fairly unsupportive or toxic environment where you just have to take actions in putting as much distance and as many barriers in place as possible to mentally feel like you’ve regained some level of control.
Absolutely. I was supporting, "But why?" as a valid question because there's more going on here than just being sick of a job. Yeah some places can be super toxic, but this sounds more like what you'd do if they wanted to ask questions about missing money or you punched a coworker or fleeing an abusive spouse. Not that I'm accusing OP of any of that, just agreeing that this is so extreme there's something unsaid here.
Yeah, feels a bit too dramatic for no apparent reason
I don't know. Sometimes I wonder how far I could get on the money in the bank and the gas in my car. Just keep driving.
In my case…. A couple of blocks…. Tops!…
In that case flight hopping isn't the efficient way to do it
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Or maybe he died.
Livin the dream.
I love that. You know what? I will have some meatloaf.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
This dude is playing 4D chess while we’re sitting here pulling on our puds