一次筹划十余年的辞职
——读《啊！这样就能辞职了》有感

Article | Tian Dong

前不久，有媒体报道消息说，五成重庆白领不到三年跳槽一次。回想自己不长不短的职业生涯，竟还没有一次跳槽的经历。

在职场圈，人们或多或少都动过跳槽的念头？无论是为了更好的发展，更优的收入，还是为了爱人、家人，等等。而跳槽前，你是否想过如何辞职呢？

有这样一个人，他为辞职准备了十多年，职业生涯的上半场几乎都耗在这个问题上了。步入不惑之年，他终于成功辞职，还写出了《啊！这样就能辞职了》一书。

Not long ago, it was reported that half white-collar workers in Chongqing have hopped from job to job within three years. Look at me. I have not even experienced any job change once.

Working people may have, more or less, thought about job-hopping? Whether it is for better development, higher income, or for lovers, families, etc. But before you change jobs, have you thought about how to resign?

There is such a person who has prepared to resign for over a decade. The first half of his career has almost been consumed on this problem. In his forties, he finally resigned and wrote a book named Ah! This Is How I Can Quit.

踏上纠结之旅 Embarking on A Tangled Journey

他是个日本人，本名可能叫安部诚，或安部阿诚，后来改名安部夜郎。再后来，为了改运，朋友建议他将笔名改为安倍夜郎。没错，就是《深夜食堂》的作者安倍夜郎。

安倍先生从小学开始喜欢漫画，中学时曾在家乡的报纸上零星地发表过漫画作品，高中时代在学校组建过漫画社，就连报考早稻田大学也是为了加入学校的漫画研究会。

如此热爱漫画的人，毕业后却没有从事漫画，而是在广告公司做广告导演。从此，也踏上了辞职与否的纠结之旅。

27岁，做了5年多广告导演后，安倍夜郎决定重拾漫画。36岁时，他第一次参加了某刊物组织的漫画比赛。他信心满满地谋划着，获奖之后一段时间就辞职，出道当漫画家，云云。然而最终的复赛名单上，没有他的名字。

又过了4年，2003年11月，安倍夜郎终于凭借《山本掏耳店》获得大奖。次年三月，他带着100万日元奖金辞职了。这一年，他41岁。

接下来的一年多，他只发表了几部作品，影响也不大，靠积蓄过活。直到他画出了《深夜食堂》。一举成名的副产品之一，是一本糅杂了他之前在报纸上开设的专栏和接受漫画同仁长篇专访的集子，书名便是《啊！这样就能辞职了》。

He is a Japanese. In order to change his fate, a friend suggested that he change his pen name into Abe Yaro.That's right, we are talking about the author of The Late Night Eatery.

Mr. Abe has enjoyed comics since elementary school.In middle school, he published comic works on his hometown newspapers. In high school, he established a comics club and even applied for Waseda University just to join its comic research club.

A man who loves comics so much did not engage in comics after graduation. Instead, he worked as a director in an advertising company. Since then, he has embarked on a tangled journey of resignation or not.

At the age of 27, after working for more than five years as an advertising director, Abe Yaro decided to restart. At the age of 36, he first participated in a comic competition organized by a publisher. He confidently planned to resign after winning and begin to be a cartoonist and so on. However, his name did not appear on the final list.

Four years later, in November 2003, Abe Yaro finally won a big award with Yamamoto Yamaguchi Store. In March 2004, he resigned with a bonus of 1 million yen,when he was 41 years old.

Over the next year or so, he published only a few works without much influence. He lived on savings until he drew The Late Night Eatery. One of the by-products of his fame is a collection of columns that he had previously wrote for a newspaper and an interview by other comic book workers. The title is Ah! This Is How I Can Resign.

热爱是第一要务 Love Is the Top Priority

比起那些只是从一个地方“跳”到另一个地方的人，安倍夜郎的辞职算得上是成功的。夸张地说，那简直是处心积虑、卧薪尝胆。安倍夜郎在书里“泄露”了一些他的辞职经验，对于正在职场彷徨的甲乙丙丁来说，或许有他山之石的功用。

比如这一条，热爱。

通观全书，这一点堪称是辞职的第一要务。很多人辞职时说，自己是为了热爱，但大多是三分钟热情。更有不幸者，不明情况的小脑袋被突如其来的热情冲昏，当激情散去，唏嘘不已。

所以，当你说自己是为了热爱，为了梦想辞职时，请你想一想，自己有没有为这个热爱付出过汗水和努力，是否如安倍夜郎一样，从小学六年级开始画漫画，一直坚持到41岁。

还有一条，努力。

把爱好升级为专长，需要的不仅是热情，还有持之以恒的努力和付出。这句话看似鸡汤，实乃真理。安倍夜郎的出道之作《山本掏耳店》，一共三十二页的漫画，最多的地方改动了五次，同一张画曾反复修改。36岁那年，他设计了一个名叫“康康”的兔子形象，那一年，他画了120多张练习稿，总计2400多只兔子。第一只兔子和最后一只兔子会有什么区别，这些兔子让他收获了什么，也许只有亲自试过的人才能体会。

Abe Yaro's resignation can be considered successful compared to those who just “hop” from one place to another. To put it more exaggeratedly, it is a matter of long-time consideration and hardships to accomplish his ambition. The author revealed some of his resignation experience in the book, which could be useful to people who are hesitating in the workplace.

First one, enthusiasm.

This is the first priority for resignation that the whole book intends to tell. Many people say they resign for love,but most of their enthusiasm does not last. Unfortunately,their heads are carried away by some sudden enthusiasm,and when the passion dissipates, they feel sad and disappointed.

So, when you say that you resign for your passion or dreams, please think about whether you have been sweating and working hard for your passion like Abe Yaro,who started to draw comics in the sixth grade of primary school, and insisted on doing it even when he was 41.

Secondly, efforts.

To upgrade your hobbies into expertise requires,you need not only enthusiasm, but also persistent efforts and commitment. Though this sounds no more than a platitude, it is truth. Abe Yaro's debut work, Yamamoto Yamaguchi Store, is a comic book of 32 pages. He had changed as many as five times, and even one picture has been repeatedly modified. At the age of 36, he designed a rabbit image named "Kangkang". That year, he practiced more than 120 drafts, over 2,400 rabbits. What would be the difference between the first rabbit and the last one?What did he gain from all these drawings? Maybe only the one who had tried it could understand.

辞职不是逃避当下 Resignation Is Not Escaping from the Moment

当然，辞职也少不了一些现实条件，比如“资本”。书中还提到类似张爱玲金句“出名要趁早”的“尽快出道”和“别有老婆孩子”之类的“经验”，尽管是安倍夜郎的自我感叹，读者们权当笑谈好了。

书封上有句话说：“一定要好好辞职啊，辞职从来不是对当下的逃避，而是对未来的选择。”有了热爱和努力，我想，要辞职也不是什么难事了。当然，有这两点，不辞职也会挺好的。

书中还有作者的专栏作品和一篇长篇访谈，读来如鸳鸯火锅，各有味道、互相成就。长篇访谈干货满满，爆料不断，犹如红汤；29篇专栏，题为“其一”“其二”“其三”……或怀念童年往事，或追忆亲友故人，语言亲切自然又朴实克制，恰如清汤。

比如在“其十四”中，他回忆起父亲爱热闹、爱开玩笑，穿着不合身的短裤出门，可“如今的我，觉得带父亲去任何地方都没问题，但却为时已晚”，又令人怅然。

Of course, you need some conditions for resignation,such as "capital". The book also mentions such “experience”as Zhang Ailing said, “to be famous as early as possible”and “do not have wife or children”. It is just the selfmockery of Abe Yaro, and our readers can laugh at it.

There is a sentence on the book cover that goes like this:"Be sure to resign in a proper way. Resignation is never escape from the present, but the choice for the future." With love and hard work, I think it is not difficult to resign. Of course, with these two traits, it would be just good enough not to resign.

The book also contains the author's column works and a lengthy interview, which reads like a dual-pot hotpot with its own flavor and achievements. The lengthy interview is full of useful advice like spicy soup. The 29 column works were entitled The First, The Second and The Third... The author cherished his childhood or memories of friends and relatives. The language in the book is gentle and naturally restrained like light soup.

For example, in The 14th, he recalled that his father loved bustling life and joking, and he even went out wearing ill- fitting shorts. “Now I feel it's totally fine for me to take my father anywhere, but it's too late." And this is so sad.