Why quitting your job could be the best thing for you

In Cameron Crowe’s 1992 Gen X rom-com “Singles,” winsome waitress Janet (Bridget Fonda) says she’s looking for a man who will say “bless you” when she sneezes. Instead, her boneheaded boyfriend Cliff (Matt Dillon) shoves a box of tissues at her and tells her not to get him sick. Just like that, she has a revelation. “Wait a minute. What am I doing?” Janet thinks, in voiceover. “I don’t have to be here. I could just break up with him!”