"Why you won't quit your job"

This blog post on the Harvard Business Review site has generated a huge trail of interesting comments.

 

As job dissatisfaction rates climb up towards 80%, it's pretty safe to conclude that many of you reading this would rather be doing something else professionally. But in my interviews, I was surprised to find that people's inability to quit their current jobs had nothing to do with the perceived riskiness of their new professions, the fear of unemployment if job options fell through, or even how well they had defined their proposed new career step.