Are you encouraged to chicken out if work becomes too demanding?

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For example, if your job could be dangerous for your physical health, do your parents and friends encourage you to chicken out and give up? Or maybe you give up on something seemingly all on your own, but obviously because you know your family and friends would agree with you that the job is too much of a health hazard? Or maybe not a health hazard, but your parents or friends assume it would be too difficult for you to live up to your boss's expectations, and implicitly put doubt in your mind about your capabilities?

WindAtMyBack · Accepted Answer

I've done a lot of dangerous work in my life and nobody has ever said anything about it. You have to know your limits, which is not the same for everyone. And you have to think about safety ALWAYS. Even if it's extremely hot out and you are dehydrated and delirious, you have to constantly remind yourself that it's dangerous and you need to keep focused on what you are doing.

If you are being too dangerous, it's not your friends and family who will say something, it's your coworkers. They don't want a dangerous person working side by side with them. A dangerous person is just as likely to hurt someone else as they are to hurt themselves. Someone like that will get kicked off a crew pretty quickly. They aren't wanted.

William7489 · Accepted Answer

It’s your life, remember your friends and family don’t have to live with the consequences, you do. There’s an old saying that your family and friends don’t want to see you fail. At the same time they really don’t want to see you do a lot better than them either. So take advice with a grain of salt. Evaluate the job on your own, make the decision based on objective facts and not other peoples opinions. You don’t need their validation for approval to say yes or no.

Prettygurl12 · Accepted Answer

No. The most "encouragement to quit" I get is always someone (my parents) saying something to the effect of: Are you sure you want to do that job?

And when I tell them yes, then they tell me that I better do it well then. If I ever expressed any frustration they'd never tell me to quit, but they'd tell me to figure out what needs to be done for me to improve and then to do whatever that thing is. Kind of a you-made-your-bed-so-lay-in-it type thing.

Sixgunsound · Answer

I have sufficient motivation in the form of a wife and children to suck it up and keep charging even if a job becomes really difficult. That used to be pretty standard practice for most men, but I don’t see too many males today made of the same stuff that men were made of in 1941.

DJB72 · Answer

I trust a few people who can be objective about my abilities to guide me if I'm not experienced in a new area. If they tell me something may be too much of a risk then I tend to listen.

Outside that group my response is generally "fuck off"

Anonymous · Answer

People who give up when things get tough will never truly understand the feeling of the hard work and coming out the other side stronger and more confident. Never, ever give in self doubt!! People are strong, some just need some help to realize just how strong they are or could be.

KIK

AviatorTom · Answer

If one decides that the job is too demanding, it's not "chickening out", it's making an intelligent decision to move to something else. One can get advice from others but it's always the individual's decision.

Andres77 · Answer

I assess the risk of harm to myself or others and either act to mitigate the risk or change the scenario. no one tells me if it's too dangerous. i wouldn't be doing something if it didn't need to be done

NerdInDenial · Answer

I have been encouraged to not quit at certain things when I was younger and encouraged to quit in my current career.

Sparkie460 · Answer

I've had friends and family ask me to give up my current career because I can get killed working on live electric. I love being my own boss and the work I do. I told them I'll quit when I'm dead.

Summeroflove · Answer

It depends. If a job is dangerous and I can’t preform. Better to leave.  Just. If you hate a job. Put a 2 weeks notice. Do your best. And find another job

Anonymous · Answer

Sure then I take a swig from my hip flask grit my teeth and keep plowing forward, if a hospital bed can't stop me working nothing will

ArtemisSilver · Answer

LoL no. I'm a grown man. All I ever get is more responsibility and harsher consequences for failure. People don't say shit unless it's to kick you when you're down as a guy.

Havthrills · Answer

I don't listen to others and judge for myself. I haven't backed down from a job no matter the danger

Anonymous · Answer

Parents and friends don't seem interested in the difficulty level of my job.

Zolly99999 · Answer

No absolutely not.. I'm usually encouraged to try harder and get it done.

Anonymous · Answer

Just quit your job and get your second bachelors and stop asking about this already.

Anonymous · Answer

You have to do what is best for you.

24_7_Amazing · Answer

It's no chickening out to quit a dangerous job.

pizzalovershouse · Answer

Depends on the situation

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