Is it right to quit?

[SecretaryMonday]

A few years ago I worked for someone a few times because I thought they really needed help for one project, but they kept asking me to do other things (mainly their mowing route) for them; then they asked me to take over the route, and sold me their lawncare equipment. I felt like I was "just being nice" by helping them, and now I have a small business! I like this type of work (usually) but I feel so much wear from the responsibility of being in charge and constantly busy...this time last year I was so burned out and felt overwhelmed with anxiety, I didn't care anymore. (Trying to prevent burnout this year.) I make more than I spend, but its still right around the poverty line (USA). I would like to be better equipped for life, move out of my parents' home, possibly buy a house (there's a HUD home that I have in mind, very affordable - liveable but needs work.)
If I buy this house and move away, I will be closer to my mowing route (majority of my income), but I'd be unreasonably far from another small job, at a farm (significant minority of income). I might have to find a way to compensate financially for the loss of the smaller job if I don't want to be in trouble with the bank for having a less-than-stable income. I'd really like to quit all of it and just apply for work at a big lawncare service where I'd still get to work outside and have employee health insurance and retirement options through the company, even uniforms...and I'd never have to mess with self-employment taxes, or worry that I might be sued!

I am afraid that I will have hurt people or let something good go to waste, though, if I quit any of the jobs I currently have. I've been working at the small farm for over decade, and there are some people on my mowing route who would have a lot of difficulty finding someone else. I don't know what the right way of ending a mowing route is, if I should do so at all. I don't know anyone to whom I could sell my route; the good workers I know are too busy already.

I also understand that my life is so much easier than perhaps most of the people in the world, and its only by American standards that I feel like I'm "failing"in life; I'm thankful that I have work that pays, even if it doesn't come with a retirement plan. I love the idea of owning a home (and the one I'm thinking of has a secure garage for my mowing stuff), but it would also be cool to be a hobo living in an old RV; cooler than living in my pickup, anyway.

Is it wrong to "quit" on people in order to pursue a possibly better job? Even if I didn't get the job I wanted, McDonalds' is always hiring...for about the same salary I'm making right now, and they'll give me a W-2 so I can file super-simple taxes.

Would it be wrong to NOT quit if I believe that I can do more in life to become more stable and "grownup"?

I feel guilty about quitting, and about not quitting.

Sorry, its long and tediously personal.

[Trishie]

If you become burned out, which is something you have been narrowly avoiding, then you wouldn't be able to work for those persons anyway.
People may miss you, but they will find someone else. There are plenty of people who desperately need jobs and can take over.
People can feel their indispensable, but leave, and you soon find out you're not.
In a previous parish for instance, I had around ten jobs in all.
I worried who would do them when I left.
For instance, I cleaned the candle stands every week. After I left they began using tea-candles. No one had to clean the stands.
I used to come early to put out the hymn-books, and came back after the last Mass to put them away.
When I left they used an easier method, and so on.

You have God-given opportunities awaiting you, don't miss out on them or you may miss being where God wishes and finding others whom God wishes to bring into your life in the new situation.

May God continue to bless you

[St Francis]

I bet they know at your parish someone who could buy the equipment and take over the route for you, or maybe you cohld get a bigger company to hire you and your route and then they'd do your paperwork, or you could get a sevice to do your paperwork for you.

[SecretaryMonday]

Originally Posted by Trishie

If you become burned out, which is something you have been narrowly avoiding, then you wouldn't be able to work for those persons anyway.
People may miss you, but they will find someone else. There are plenty of people who desperately need jobs and can take over.
People can feel their indispensable, but leave, and you soon find out you're not.

Thank you, it would be such a relief to be dispensable.

Originally Posted by St Francis

I bet they know at your parish someone who could buy the equipment and take over the route for you, or maybe you cohld get a bigger company to hire you and your route and then they'd do your paperwork, or you could get a sevice to do your paperwork for you.

I had not thought of asking at the the church, or the possibility that somebody bigger might want to buy the route. Thank you for the suggestions!