Tick Tock My Public Accounting Clock

I had thrown in my towel last Friday and gave my two weeks' notice.  My original plan was to hang on there until I had a new job offer.  After one year's interviewing and the exhaustion of all my paid vacation days on attending interviews,  I decide that it has got to a point where I feel so bad about waking up to go to work that I feel that I can no longer hang in there anymore.  (I have to say most of my paid vacation days were wasted on worthless headhunting firms, which I have learnt my lesson now to be more skeptical of them.)

I just realize that life is too short for me to spend one extra day, dragging myself to my car and be miserable.  I don't see how my current position at my firm is going to lead me to anywhere less miserable.  Sure, a lot of recruiters advise me to not quit my job until I have another job lined up.  Too bad, I don't have one lined up yet even though I had spent the last year looking for one. I just want my way out now before the audit season kicks in full gear and I will become stuck for another 6 months without time to attend job interviews.

As more work comes my way and more crises tossed to my desk, created by my bosses and the incompetent Controllers of their clients, I feel that it will be harder for me to focus on finding my next public accounting job or to even think about what I need to do with my career.  I feel that one more day hanging on in this firm means only one more day of my life being wasted.  I feel that it's very important for me to surround myself with the right professionals, professionals who are competent, and not complacent.  I have been looking at the people around me in this firm and in this firm's clients, all I see are very incompetent and complacent people with the exception of one of my colleagues, who told me he had been feeling frustrated and was actively looking for a new job too. I just want to leave before he does.  

So I quit.  My days at my fancy and spacious office are now counting down.  I feel relief.  I guess the fear part hasn't kicked in yet.  What about you?  Do you enjoy what you are doing at your job?  Have you ever quit without having another job lined up?

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