Ask HN: Depression and job
If it were me, I&#x27;d just quit. Fuck. That. Shit.<p>Life is too short to be depressed, or so much as be bored or at a dead end.<p>If your company doesn&#x27;t align with your values, then all the more reason to leave.<p>If you have some personal projects you want to work on, build up some funds so you con quit and comfortably take a sabbatical and then spend some time applying for positions in the latter half of it.<p>Do you have family and friends? Chances are at least one of them will help you if times get tough. If you have a support network, remember that you can use it.<p>If you are crying at work, that means your job isn&#x27;t as valuable as you think it is. It probably sucks.<p>If you have sick time, use a bunch of it so you can calm down and rationally decide what your exit strategy will be.<p>By the way, I recently quit my job with nothing lined up. The company was great, but I had personal projects I wanted time for and needed a change. This is a thing people do, and they usually survive it. Don&#x27;t buy the social pressure that says working hard is a virtue in and of itself, or that you&#x27;re a bum because you quit for your own health and are &quot;unemployed&quot;.<p>One day not too long from now, you&#x27;ll look back at this job and wonder why you put up with it for so long.