what are some enjoyable ways your behavior changed once you decided to leave your job?

A reader writes:

I’d love to discuss this with readers: once you’ve firmly decided to resign from your job at a future point, what are some enjoyable ways that you’ve suddenly felt free to disengage from some of the job’s annoying aspects? While we’re still “in the saddle” so to speak, we all just doggedly endure so many people, rules, and chores. But when we’ve decided to leave, it can free us to act a bit differently! I think it’s informally sometimes called “departure behavior.”

For example, I’m retiring at the end of this year so I’ve simply stopped engaging with Jane, a responsible but petty and aggressive colleague. She has always been a bit of an empire-builder and a self-appointed pot-stirrer about interpersonal issues, and this year that’s been especially toxic because we’ve both been on the Personnel Committee of our university academic department. Well, last week, Jane emailed me requesting to “talk soon” by phone “about a Personnel matter.” And I just deliberately didn’t reply for a day and a half, then sent a falsely “hurried” reply saying “Just seeing this now, and I have zero time until our next full committee meeting; sorry about that and see you then!”

It was just one small but exhilarating self-extrication! What are your own enjoyable examples?

Readers?

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