Jenny Dryerase - So sad...

I'm sure by now we've all heard about the remarkable "Jenny Dryerase", who quit her job through a series of photos where she wrote her message out on a dry erase board. I saw the link on Facebook, and as I scrolled through the photos I felt like this girl was a hero. I LOVED the concept, I thought it was amazing.



But, of course, it was all a hoax :(



I'm still pondering this stunt though, and still thinking about how it spoke to me, and apparently so many others, in this time of job uncertainty and economic stress.



I'm lucky. I love my job and the people that I work with. I don't make nearly enough money, but I do OK for a chick with an AAS in Teacher Ed. (Thank GOD I'm starting school in a few weeks. I need my bachelor's ASAP!) There are others of us though, that aren't so lucky.



I get the feeling that folks are hanging on to jobs for fear of being included in the next unemployment percentage on the news. People have taken jobs they think are below them, stayed in jobs they despise, and it's all out of fear. I understand that, I really do. And that's why I think "Jenny" spoke to us all.



She had the courage to say "screw the economy, forget the fact that it may be months or years before I find another job, I'm NOT going to stay where I'm unhappy". It took balls. Brass ones. I'm sure it's something that tons of folks would like to do, but simply can't. So, hat's off to Jenny Dry erase, even though she isn't real.