You have a mortgage to pay, after all, and quitting to start a business would not be responsible.
At the end of the summer, Sick had to quit to start his first year of law school, at Syracuse.
It got a big surprise.The firm had assumed that most of the women had quit to start a family and spend time at home.
After a few unhappy months at a Washington think tank, he quit to start his repair shop, Shockoe Moto, which is, these days, his most important credential.
Not unexpectedly, the stress of work at ground zero caused many smokers to smoke more and prompted others who had quit to start again.
He quit to start a mentoring program modeled on the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program but aimed at slightly younger children, between ages 5 and 12.
Having learned the hard way, Ms. Hammer quit to start her own business, Evolutionary Technologies International of Austin, Tex., which sells software that helps dissimilar computers communicate.
Similarly, all these people quitting to start a business would have a pension to fall back on, and could afford to undercut those already in the field or take work from people who were already finding it hard to survive.
Peter Debelak, a former union side labor lawyer who quit to start a community woodshop in the city, found me on Twitter and offered me a place to stay before events got underway.
A half-dozen pages about the closeted gay manager of an Upper East Side club who died of AIDS, a dozen pages on the former headwaiter at Elaine's who quit to start his own restaurants.
He quit to start his own VC firm.
