I’m 45, Can I Quit My Job?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Given that my job has turned toxic, I'm wondering whether I can just pull the plug and retire for my mental sanity?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Thursday, May 14th, and we are here trying to help you navigate your financial journey. |
| 0:10.9 | And we know that so many of you, you've got different things on your minds, you've got different places you want to go. |
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| 1:02.7 | into this because we have somebody who is itching to make a big change in her life. It's Priya. |
| 1:08.3 | She's from way out west. Hello, Priya. How are you? Hi, Jeline, Mark. Doing |
| 1:13.8 | great. How are you both? Fantastic. What's going on? You're ready to like an upheaval of your |
| 1:19.3 | life, aren't you? Yes, I am. I have been working a long time, 25, 26 years and I'm currently |
| 1:26.6 | working in a full-time remote position right now, and my job has |
| 1:30.3 | become a bit of a toxic situation right now. So I'm looking to just get a health check. |
| 1:38.8 | I have thoughts of maybe taking a break for the next six, seven years, but the field I'm in with AI and everything, I just don't know if I'll be able to get back in work in this, in this exact role. Maybe something else, right, in the future. Okay. But like, essentially it's like, can I call it quits and then leave you open to see if you wanted to go back in. |
| 2:02.4 | Yep. |
| 2:02.7 | Whether you could. Okay. So give us a little bit of the background. So you are how old? |
| 2:08.6 | I'm 45. 45. And how old is you had a spouse? Because I heard you say we. |
| 2:14.1 | Yes. He's 47. Okay. You have kids? Yes. We've got two kids, 11 and 14. Okay. Great. Are they in |
| 2:21.6 | public or private school? They're in public schools. Okay. You pulling the plug doesn't mean your |
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