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Book Introduction
Resignation or freedom,
Rebuilding my life with the power of that one word
"I'm Quitting My Job" is a book that asks us what a company is and what work is, and suggests we reorganize our relationships with our company, our work, and ourselves.
This is a book that tells me to come to my senses and look back on my life.
How on earth can being a company employee, being a working person, be the value of a human being's existence?
Why is it that once we enter a company, we completely forget that we are human beings and members of society and end up transforming into ‘office workers’?
Why do we all live to be company employees rather than human beings?
We need to think about what we are working for and what we are earning money for.
Now everyone knows.
A life lived for work brings me neither happiness nor freedom.
All that's left are coffee, cigarettes, headaches, and stomach ulcers.
We need to recover the attitude of working for life.
We live in an era where we have to live to be 100 years old.
Rebuilding my life with the power of that one word
"I'm Quitting My Job" is a book that asks us what a company is and what work is, and suggests we reorganize our relationships with our company, our work, and ourselves.
This is a book that tells me to come to my senses and look back on my life.
How on earth can being a company employee, being a working person, be the value of a human being's existence?
Why is it that once we enter a company, we completely forget that we are human beings and members of society and end up transforming into ‘office workers’?
Why do we all live to be company employees rather than human beings?
We need to think about what we are working for and what we are earning money for.
Now everyone knows.
A life lived for work brings me neither happiness nor freedom.
All that's left are coffee, cigarettes, headaches, and stomach ulcers.
We need to recover the attitude of working for life.
We live in an era where we have to live to be 100 years old.
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“Is working at a company the only way to live a fulfilling life?” --- p.16
“Of course, there is ‘reward’ in work, and there are many people for whom work is the ‘purpose of life.’
But can you guarantee that you will continue to work for that company even if you don't get paid?" --- p.17
“I just wrote, ‘People who work hard at their companies are the ones who support our society.’
I really mean this.
But clearly, people who don't work in companies also support society." --- p.18
“Once you get used to receiving your paycheck every month, before you know it, you start to believe that you can’t do anything unless you earn money.
And we tend to think that people who earn more are better people. --- p.18
“Anyone who has ever worked as a company employee knows, and anyone who has never worked as a company employee will never understand, but there is something truly frightening about human desire.
I felt it deeply after becoming a company employee.
“It is surprisingly difficult to be ‘satisfied with something within a reasonable range.’” --- p.30
“When I was young, I thought it was my pride to buy things my parents didn’t buy for me with the money I earned.
I was turning on the faucet and thinking that I was making my dream come true.
Moreover, I was not satisfied with that, and I was always reading unrealistic magazines and keeping a ‘must-have list’ or a ‘list of places I want to go’ in my head.” --- p.36
“The question is whether I can stand tall as an independent individual while being within the company.
In other words, can I quit the company at any time?”--- p.93
“Until now, I have believed that freedom is about endlessly acquiring things that I wish I had.
But that wasn't it.
No, it was quite the opposite.
“Knowing that I can live without it, and creating that kind of self—that was true freedom.” --- p.107
“There is nothing good or bad about quitting a job.
It may be better not to quit, or it may be better to quit.
However, in any situation, it is I who decides.
What matters is whether you can convince yourself of that decision.” --- p.113
“The trials faced by people who quit their jobs are surprisingly widespread.
“It was something that could only be considered punishment by the state.” --- p.130
“I never imagined that my retirement pay would be taxed!!”--- p.135
“Unemployment insurance was only available to those who wanted to get a job at another company, and those who wanted to make a living as an independent individual were not eligible.
So unemployment insurance was a system designed to force our country's adults into the 'company' system!!"--- p.138
"Why on earth does the government force its citizens to 'get a job'? I understand if they're saying 'get a job.'
But ‘working’ does not necessarily mean ‘belonging to a company.’
But why do they say, ‘Become a part of a company’ instead of ‘Work’?”--- p.139
“We all think we’re ordinary office workers, but we’re all caught up in a world where people prey on others.” --- p.160
“The desire to believe that one is better than others.
The desire to live a life of even a little more abundance.
The feeling of not wanting to lower one's current standard of living.
“It is a weakness and desire that everyone inherently possesses.” --- p.170
“The company is a place that creates me, not a place that I depend on.
Just 'create a self that can graduate from the company someday'.
“Isn’t that really important?”
“Of course, there is ‘reward’ in work, and there are many people for whom work is the ‘purpose of life.’
But can you guarantee that you will continue to work for that company even if you don't get paid?" --- p.17
“I just wrote, ‘People who work hard at their companies are the ones who support our society.’
I really mean this.
But clearly, people who don't work in companies also support society." --- p.18
“Once you get used to receiving your paycheck every month, before you know it, you start to believe that you can’t do anything unless you earn money.
And we tend to think that people who earn more are better people. --- p.18
“Anyone who has ever worked as a company employee knows, and anyone who has never worked as a company employee will never understand, but there is something truly frightening about human desire.
I felt it deeply after becoming a company employee.
“It is surprisingly difficult to be ‘satisfied with something within a reasonable range.’” --- p.30
“When I was young, I thought it was my pride to buy things my parents didn’t buy for me with the money I earned.
I was turning on the faucet and thinking that I was making my dream come true.
Moreover, I was not satisfied with that, and I was always reading unrealistic magazines and keeping a ‘must-have list’ or a ‘list of places I want to go’ in my head.” --- p.36
“The question is whether I can stand tall as an independent individual while being within the company.
In other words, can I quit the company at any time?”--- p.93
“Until now, I have believed that freedom is about endlessly acquiring things that I wish I had.
But that wasn't it.
No, it was quite the opposite.
“Knowing that I can live without it, and creating that kind of self—that was true freedom.” --- p.107
“There is nothing good or bad about quitting a job.
It may be better not to quit, or it may be better to quit.
However, in any situation, it is I who decides.
What matters is whether you can convince yourself of that decision.” --- p.113
“The trials faced by people who quit their jobs are surprisingly widespread.
“It was something that could only be considered punishment by the state.” --- p.130
“I never imagined that my retirement pay would be taxed!!”--- p.135
“Unemployment insurance was only available to those who wanted to get a job at another company, and those who wanted to make a living as an independent individual were not eligible.
So unemployment insurance was a system designed to force our country's adults into the 'company' system!!"--- p.138
"Why on earth does the government force its citizens to 'get a job'? I understand if they're saying 'get a job.'
But ‘working’ does not necessarily mean ‘belonging to a company.’
But why do they say, ‘Become a part of a company’ instead of ‘Work’?”--- p.139
“We all think we’re ordinary office workers, but we’re all caught up in a world where people prey on others.” --- p.160
“The desire to believe that one is better than others.
The desire to live a life of even a little more abundance.
The feeling of not wanting to lower one's current standard of living.
“It is a weakness and desire that everyone inherently possesses.” --- p.170
“The company is a place that creates me, not a place that I depend on.
Just 'create a self that can graduate from the company someday'.
“Isn’t that really important?”
--- p.193
Publisher's Review
Resignation or freedom,
Rebuilding my life with the power of that one word
Freedom in the coming era
Realizing that the company and its employees are not everything in life.
Knowing that it's okay to quit.
I am diligently preparing myself to be able to survive even after I quit my job.
Even if you are not a company employee, you are a member of society.
Becoming a person who supports society.
No headaches, with a strong body
Even if it's a little lacking, it's enough to be happy.
It's better not to love the company.
You just need to like it moderately.
You will know when you leave the company you worked for.
How company-centric my life has been, how dependent my social values have been on the company, and how ultimately vain my relationship with the company has been.
And then the belated wandering and worry begins.
What to do instead of waking up in the morning and going to work, who to eat lunch with and how to do it, how to introduce yourself when meeting people in the evening.
A person who only knows the company, once he leaves the company, cannot help but struggle with the new way of life he must suddenly find.
Even if you continue to work at the same company, the situation is the same.
There is only a time difference, but everyone will eventually come to know.
That the company doesn't love me.
That the company doesn't take responsibility for me.
So the sooner you realize it, the better.
The company doesn't love me.
It's better not to love the company.
You just have to like the company moderately.
We must learn, practice, and engrave in our minds how to exist not just as company employees, but above all, as human beings, as members of society.
To be clear, “I’m Quitting My Job” is not a book that encourages people to quit their jobs.
This isn't a book that tells you to throw away all your rewards and scream that you don't want to work, nor is it a book that tells you that everyone lives like this and that you should have a drink and smile bitterly at yourself.
It's not a book that you can't take responsibility for and that you have to run away from work as soon as possible, nor is it a book that you have to read secretly from the company.
It is not a book that advises us to endure without purpose.
"I'm Quitting My Job" is a book that asks us what a company is and what work is, and suggests we reorganize our relationships with our company, our work, and ourselves.
This is a book that tells me to come to my senses and look back on my life.
How on earth can being a company employee, being a working person, be the value of a human being's existence?
Why is it that once we enter a company, we completely forget that we are human beings and members of society and end up transforming into ‘office workers’?
Why do we all live to be company employees rather than human beings?
We need to think about what we are working for and what we are earning money for.
Now everyone knows.
A life lived for work brings me neither happiness nor freedom.
All that's left are coffee, cigarettes, headaches, and stomach ulcers.
We need to recover the attitude of working for life.
We live in an era where we have to live to be 100 years old.
A company is a place that can make us better, but it can also destroy us.
This is exactly why we suffer in our companies.
“I just wrote, ‘People who work hard at their companies are the ones who support our society.’
I mean this very thing.
But clearly, people who don't work in companies also support society.
But when you work at a company, you forget those things.
People who want to think about what it means to work at a company, people who want to quit their job, and people who want to spend their whole lives tied to a company.
I hope this book will be a small opportunity for all of those people to think again about 'working at a company' and their own daily lives.” _From the text
A book of hope that asks what money, freedom, and life are.
A book by a real-life social affairs reporter.
Asahi Shimbun reporters are no exception.
The Asahi Shimbun is no exception.
The Asahi Shimbun is a company, and its reporters are company employees.
The author, who was a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, resigned from the Asahi Shimbun in January 2016, a company that was difficult to leave once one entered.
This book begins with why he first thought about quitting the company he had worked so hard to get into, how his work life changed after that, what mindset he had as he continued working, and what it was like when he finally quit that "bad" company. The story is told in an honest and humorous style.
The author thought about quitting his job, prepared for it, and finally quit. As he did so, he reconsidered what a company is, what work is, and what money is, and regained a perspective on life that he had forgotten while being caught up in the competition for promotion and salary.
As we get caught up in our daily lives as office workers, we all tend to forget about such things.
And then I realized it after I left the company.
How much of a 'corporate society' the society he belonged to was, and what it meant to belong to a company in this vicious corporate society.
Coming out of the social fence/prison called the company, the reality that confronts me is that I have no husband, no children to rely on, and on top of that, I am unemployed.
But the author says he is more hopeful than ever.
Because you're thinking about working for your everyday life, not living your everyday life for work.
Slow down and be free.
Loose and grand.
happily.
No one is an exception.
If you feel out of breath, you should stop.
What's the big deal? Your salary or something?
You can live a wonderful life even if you take it slow.
As you might think, it works out somehow!
Quitting a job is scary, and losing income is scary.
But such feelings are evidence of being internally bound to the company.
The author, who was a close-knit company employee, says the reason he quit his job was 'for the sake of a free spirit.'
I can't help but agree with the argument that 'economic freedom makes people free.'
When we receive our paycheck and can buy whatever we want, we may briefly feel happy and free, but consumption does not bring us freedom and happiness.
If the things we buy really brought us happiness, the 'throwaway life' and 'minimalist' lifestyle wouldn't have become a fad.
The era of 'fruits that everyone can share if they work hard' is passing.
We've been racing toward happiness, believing that achieving "more, faster" results will lead to prosperity. But have we truly achieved happiness despite our economic prosperity? We've become exhausted by the frustrations of an upwardly mobile society.
Is there any hope in a society where people admit they're tired and helpless? In a society filled with office workers who constantly worry about work, only to be abandoned one day, there's no room for them to reach out to those in need.
"I'm quitting my job" speaks of hope.
He says that you can live happily with a smile on your face even if you don't drive in 6th gear and slow down to 3rd gear.
The freedom of the future society lies in diligently creating the world for ourselves, little by little, rather than being bound by the huge system that has been created.
Without freedom, there is no hope for anyone.
And talking about hope, that's what our society needs right now.
Recommendation
“Are you a company person?”
★ Recommended reading for job seekers who want to become corporate human beings.
This is a must-read for job seekers who are risking their youth and lives for a large company, a civil servant position, or a sense of belonging.
Because it is a book that is sufficient to convey the message that a company is not the only condition for creating a happy life.
The author's playful writing style reveals the level of a senior in life who has reached a level of maturity that is so familiar with model sentences that it is almost like a gentle enlightenment.
★ Recommended reading for those in their 30s and 40s who are living as corporate people.
“I’ve got a job and I’m working at a company that others envy, so why am I not happy?” This is the worry of many talented young people in Korea these days.
This book will certainly be helpful to 'capable but unhappy office workers' who are considering quitting their jobs due to dissatisfaction with their work.
It also clearly shows what life would be like if you quit your job without any preparation and without knowing the ways of the world.
★ Recommended reading for those in their 40s and 50s who have lived their entire lives as corporate workers.
I also want to read this book for people in their 40s and 50s who are preparing for the second act of their lives.
It could be said that this is a book that slowly awakens positivity toward 'new challenges' and hope for a 'good world'.
This is a book that makes you feel like you have a soul that is truly faithful to the basics about right and wrong.
★ A must-read for anyone seeking true freedom.
What really matters, as the author says, is not whether or not you resign.
The question is whether you can resign and then walk into your next life with confidence, pride, and happiness.
However, the most important thing is to be the subject of decision-making and to do my best happily in the position I have chosen.
So, ultimately, this book is one I would recommend to anyone who is thinking about how to live their lives freely and happily.
Rebuilding my life with the power of that one word
Freedom in the coming era
Realizing that the company and its employees are not everything in life.
Knowing that it's okay to quit.
I am diligently preparing myself to be able to survive even after I quit my job.
Even if you are not a company employee, you are a member of society.
Becoming a person who supports society.
No headaches, with a strong body
Even if it's a little lacking, it's enough to be happy.
It's better not to love the company.
You just need to like it moderately.
You will know when you leave the company you worked for.
How company-centric my life has been, how dependent my social values have been on the company, and how ultimately vain my relationship with the company has been.
And then the belated wandering and worry begins.
What to do instead of waking up in the morning and going to work, who to eat lunch with and how to do it, how to introduce yourself when meeting people in the evening.
A person who only knows the company, once he leaves the company, cannot help but struggle with the new way of life he must suddenly find.
Even if you continue to work at the same company, the situation is the same.
There is only a time difference, but everyone will eventually come to know.
That the company doesn't love me.
That the company doesn't take responsibility for me.
So the sooner you realize it, the better.
The company doesn't love me.
It's better not to love the company.
You just have to like the company moderately.
We must learn, practice, and engrave in our minds how to exist not just as company employees, but above all, as human beings, as members of society.
To be clear, “I’m Quitting My Job” is not a book that encourages people to quit their jobs.
This isn't a book that tells you to throw away all your rewards and scream that you don't want to work, nor is it a book that tells you that everyone lives like this and that you should have a drink and smile bitterly at yourself.
It's not a book that you can't take responsibility for and that you have to run away from work as soon as possible, nor is it a book that you have to read secretly from the company.
It is not a book that advises us to endure without purpose.
"I'm Quitting My Job" is a book that asks us what a company is and what work is, and suggests we reorganize our relationships with our company, our work, and ourselves.
This is a book that tells me to come to my senses and look back on my life.
How on earth can being a company employee, being a working person, be the value of a human being's existence?
Why is it that once we enter a company, we completely forget that we are human beings and members of society and end up transforming into ‘office workers’?
Why do we all live to be company employees rather than human beings?
We need to think about what we are working for and what we are earning money for.
Now everyone knows.
A life lived for work brings me neither happiness nor freedom.
All that's left are coffee, cigarettes, headaches, and stomach ulcers.
We need to recover the attitude of working for life.
We live in an era where we have to live to be 100 years old.
A company is a place that can make us better, but it can also destroy us.
This is exactly why we suffer in our companies.
“I just wrote, ‘People who work hard at their companies are the ones who support our society.’
I mean this very thing.
But clearly, people who don't work in companies also support society.
But when you work at a company, you forget those things.
People who want to think about what it means to work at a company, people who want to quit their job, and people who want to spend their whole lives tied to a company.
I hope this book will be a small opportunity for all of those people to think again about 'working at a company' and their own daily lives.” _From the text
A book of hope that asks what money, freedom, and life are.
A book by a real-life social affairs reporter.
Asahi Shimbun reporters are no exception.
The Asahi Shimbun is no exception.
The Asahi Shimbun is a company, and its reporters are company employees.
The author, who was a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, resigned from the Asahi Shimbun in January 2016, a company that was difficult to leave once one entered.
This book begins with why he first thought about quitting the company he had worked so hard to get into, how his work life changed after that, what mindset he had as he continued working, and what it was like when he finally quit that "bad" company. The story is told in an honest and humorous style.
The author thought about quitting his job, prepared for it, and finally quit. As he did so, he reconsidered what a company is, what work is, and what money is, and regained a perspective on life that he had forgotten while being caught up in the competition for promotion and salary.
As we get caught up in our daily lives as office workers, we all tend to forget about such things.
And then I realized it after I left the company.
How much of a 'corporate society' the society he belonged to was, and what it meant to belong to a company in this vicious corporate society.
Coming out of the social fence/prison called the company, the reality that confronts me is that I have no husband, no children to rely on, and on top of that, I am unemployed.
But the author says he is more hopeful than ever.
Because you're thinking about working for your everyday life, not living your everyday life for work.
Slow down and be free.
Loose and grand.
happily.
No one is an exception.
If you feel out of breath, you should stop.
What's the big deal? Your salary or something?
You can live a wonderful life even if you take it slow.
As you might think, it works out somehow!
Quitting a job is scary, and losing income is scary.
But such feelings are evidence of being internally bound to the company.
The author, who was a close-knit company employee, says the reason he quit his job was 'for the sake of a free spirit.'
I can't help but agree with the argument that 'economic freedom makes people free.'
When we receive our paycheck and can buy whatever we want, we may briefly feel happy and free, but consumption does not bring us freedom and happiness.
If the things we buy really brought us happiness, the 'throwaway life' and 'minimalist' lifestyle wouldn't have become a fad.
The era of 'fruits that everyone can share if they work hard' is passing.
We've been racing toward happiness, believing that achieving "more, faster" results will lead to prosperity. But have we truly achieved happiness despite our economic prosperity? We've become exhausted by the frustrations of an upwardly mobile society.
Is there any hope in a society where people admit they're tired and helpless? In a society filled with office workers who constantly worry about work, only to be abandoned one day, there's no room for them to reach out to those in need.
"I'm quitting my job" speaks of hope.
He says that you can live happily with a smile on your face even if you don't drive in 6th gear and slow down to 3rd gear.
The freedom of the future society lies in diligently creating the world for ourselves, little by little, rather than being bound by the huge system that has been created.
Without freedom, there is no hope for anyone.
And talking about hope, that's what our society needs right now.
Recommendation
“Are you a company person?”
★ Recommended reading for job seekers who want to become corporate human beings.
This is a must-read for job seekers who are risking their youth and lives for a large company, a civil servant position, or a sense of belonging.
Because it is a book that is sufficient to convey the message that a company is not the only condition for creating a happy life.
The author's playful writing style reveals the level of a senior in life who has reached a level of maturity that is so familiar with model sentences that it is almost like a gentle enlightenment.
★ Recommended reading for those in their 30s and 40s who are living as corporate people.
“I’ve got a job and I’m working at a company that others envy, so why am I not happy?” This is the worry of many talented young people in Korea these days.
This book will certainly be helpful to 'capable but unhappy office workers' who are considering quitting their jobs due to dissatisfaction with their work.
It also clearly shows what life would be like if you quit your job without any preparation and without knowing the ways of the world.
★ Recommended reading for those in their 40s and 50s who have lived their entire lives as corporate workers.
I also want to read this book for people in their 40s and 50s who are preparing for the second act of their lives.
It could be said that this is a book that slowly awakens positivity toward 'new challenges' and hope for a 'good world'.
This is a book that makes you feel like you have a soul that is truly faithful to the basics about right and wrong.
★ A must-read for anyone seeking true freedom.
What really matters, as the author says, is not whether or not you resign.
The question is whether you can resign and then walk into your next life with confidence, pride, and happiness.
However, the most important thing is to be the subject of decision-making and to do my best happily in the position I have chosen.
So, ultimately, this book is one I would recommend to anyone who is thinking about how to live their lives freely and happily.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: January 17, 2017
- Page count, weight, size: 204 pages | 312g | 138*202*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788956059273
- ISBN10: 8956059276
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