Every human being in the world feels the necessity to make a break in their lives to fix the past and change their lives into a better future. Quitting is the best option for these people who are not comfort with the life they have and it has advantages and disadvantages depending of each people. Barbara Graham in her story tells us that quitting changes the course of live of people and it has both positive and negative effects, whether it is in the field of education, employment, and relationships. Every day, many people take the decision to leave school, they think that quitting their education and start working is the best option, but they do not really know that having a career give them better opportunities to success in life. Dropping out is a term used to refer to students who stop attending classes and are outside of the education system. Barbara Graham says In high school I got strait As in English and flunked math. When it came time for college, I enrolled at NYU because it was the only way I could think of to live in Greenwich Village and get my parents to pick up the tab. (117) she explains that she did not feel comfortable studying, or maybe this was not a thing that arouse her passion as others. The act of dropping out affects many societies. It is a worrying factor that many people have to give up their studies. This has an impact on their lives and affects individuals in their present and future. People can quit school for several reasons: taking a break to erase educational mistakes or for the lack of resources that lead them to work to support their families. Quitting a job sometimes is a hard decision that usually people take, but many of them does it in order to change the course of their live, every people have their own reasons to quit, these could be: find a better job, job dissatisfaction, and even the demand that implies every job like the schedules and the pressure. Barbara Graham writes As for my relationsh