Should You Quit Your Job? by Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan Peterson: The first thing I would say is you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful, but you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable. It's like the first thing you wanna do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. The clock is ticking and if you're miserable in your job now and you change nothing, in five years, you'll be much more miserable and you'll be a lot older.

Whenever you're working and you will be. Especially in the world of today where jobs are relatively uncertain. You should always have an escape route planned. And it should be active because if you don't have an escape route and you can't get away you can't say no. And if you can't say no, you can't bargain. And if you can't bargain, you're a slave. So that's how the world is set out at the moment. It's probably always been like that but it's something that you really need to know. Because you gotta watch if your being is objecting to someone to something that someone is forcing you to do may be you're right. May be you shouldn't be doing it. And lots of people end up living meaningless lives. And that's not a very good term, because there's no such thing as a meaningless life. Because one of the meanings of life is suffering and there's no bloody way you're going to escape that so you will not have a meaningless life. You'll have a life that's only suffering and I wouldn't recommend that.