Many people quit their jobs to follow their dreams. “I’m quitting to pursue my dream of not working here” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images.
“I’m quitting to pursue my dream of not working here. http://some.ly/MZvp2g via @someecards” was posted on Twitter by kate walters on September 19, 2013. The saying originated on an ecard.
Twitter
kate walters
@katewawa
I’m quitting to pursue my dream of not working here. http://some.ly/MZvp2g via
@someecards
5:24 PM · Sep 19, 2013·Twitter for Websites
Twitter
DocWoods
@kiloDRYC
LOL I’m quitting to pursue my dream of not working here. http://some.ly/MZvp2g via
@someecards
5:54 PM · Sep 19, 2013·Twitter for Websites
Twitter
SanDisH!
@SanDisH
I’m quitting to pursue my dream of not working here. http://ow.ly/2A2GJ9
6:26 PM · Sep 19, 2013·Hootsuite
Twitter
AWE!Some Crochet
@ginarenay
I am quitting to pursue my dream of not working here. (quit—just a great reminder) http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253073803533/
5:04 AM · Dec 23, 2013·Pinterest
Google Books
Title I’m Quitting to Pursue My Dream of Not Working Here: 6x9 Notebook, Ruled, Funny Journal for Women, Work Desk Humor, Daily Planner, Diary. Fantastic Gift, Secret Santa, Birthday Or Christmas
Author Work Fun
Publisher Independently Published, 2019
ISBN 1694591786, 9781694591784
Length 80 pages
14 September 2019, Financial Times (London, UK), “Why winners quit and quitters win” by Jenny Lee, pg. 22:
It’s far easier to stay in a colourless job than to walk into your boss’s office and announce “I’m quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.”
Twitter
dahyun ear enthusiast (FUCK 12)
@vampire_jline
thinking of the “I am quitting to pursue my dream of not working here” on the resignation letter
5:19 PM · Sep 3, 2020·Twitter Web App
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t want to listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•“Took my own lunch to work and didn’t buy a coffee today so I should be able to afford to buy a house any day now” (5/8)
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t wanna listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•“Why does inclusiveness include everything except opposing views?” (5/8)
•Entry in progress—BP23 (5/8)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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