Why resign

It's been 1.5 month since I left my previous employment. Before I left, many people came to ask me why I was leaving, what I was going to do after this? I had tried out a few ways to answer the questions:

1) Personal reason - I usually just told them it's for personal reasons and won't elaborate. It's supposed to be personal right? Only a few knows what the personal reason is though.

2) Health reasons - I didn't tell anyone this reason as my expected reaction from them was that I was young so this shouldn't be a concern. Well, this is supposed to be one of the reasons for my decision, since I feel my health has been deteriorating and I ought to take care of it. You don't wait till your health is bad before you take care of it. Prevention is better than cure.

3) Other plans - I have other plans and sometimes just explain a bit more if the person asking me probes, Of the different plans, it's interesting to also notice the reactions from people when you tell them different things:

i) Taxi driver - sounds like you already going into retirement job. My actual plan for this is to drive in the day and tutor and go into volunteer work in the afternoon for one year. We'll see how this work out.

ii) Hawker - Wow, what a different job as your current one. But it does sounds good because it's about starting a business. However, there will always be people who will try to dissuade you to do something. If you never try and easily get dissuaded by people, then it will be better to just keep this to yourself and put your head first into it. That way nothing can stop you.

iii) Tutor - This seems the most socially acceptable answer. People feels it's only natural to become a tutor. So nowadays, this will be the answer I give people when they do ask about while I had resigned. This is so I won't have to see the shocked face on people about something that actually concern me.

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Don't be dissuaded by people who feel you can't achieve your dream. Even if you fail, at least you fail trying. There will always be people who feel they can't do it and will persuade you that it's the same for you.