About this tool

Most “should I quit my job” tools online do the same thing: they take your anxiety, run it through a formula nobody shows you, and hand back an authoritative-looking number — a “42% regret probability,” a “compatibility score,” a verdict. It feels precise. It is not. There is no dataset that maps your savings and a burnout slider to a real probability of regret, because no such dataset could exist. The number is invented to look trustworthy at exactly the moment you’re least able to question it.

This tool was built specifically to not do that.

What it actually does

Two honest things, and only two:

It does real runway arithmetic. Savings you’d genuinely spend, divided by what you actually spend each month, after any income that’s truly guaranteed. That’s not a model or an estimate — it’s division, and you can check it. It’s the one number in this whole space that’s real, so it’s the one the tool computes.

It reflects your own judgement back to you. The job-fit questions — how depleted you feel, whether there’s room to grow, what it’s costing your health — don’t get secretly scored. They get organised and shown back so the trade-off is visible instead of looping in your head at 3am. The result “band” comes from plain if-then rules you can trace line by line under “why it landed here.” There is no hidden score. There is no probability. Those are absent on purpose.

Why refuse the number, when the number is what spreads

Because the number is the dishonest part, and dishonesty in a tool people reach for when they’re scared is the thing this site exists to be the opposite of.

A fabricated “regret percentage” is built to be screenshotted and shared. That makes it good for traffic and bad for the person — it converts genuine uncertainty into false certainty and points them at a decision using math that doesn’t mean anything. A tool that does that works until it very publicly doesn’t. One that does honest arithmetic and is candid about the limits of arithmetic is the one worth building and the one worth trusting twice.

There’s also a quieter reason. A lot of people asking “can I afford to quit” already have the runway — what they’re missing is permission to leave a situation that isn’t an emergency but is costing them. A fake confidence score can’t give anyone that, and pretending to is its own small harm. So the tool says plainly what it can’t do, and points toward a person when the question is really one for a person.

Who made this

This site is run by an independent site owner, not a company, a coaching service, or anyone with something to sell you on the other side of the result. It carries display advertising (Google AdSense) to cover its costs and time — disclosed plainly, placed only above the tool and after a complete result, never wedged between your situation and your answer. The ads pay for the site. They do not shape what it tells you, and there is nothing to upsell.

If that arrangement ever stops being true, this page is where it would be said.

What this is not

It is not financial, career, or mental-health advice. The runway math is real but it is general; your situation has details a calculator can’t see. The job-fit reflection is yours, not a measurement. And if work is seriously affecting your health, the most useful thing on this page is this sentence: a person you trust, or a professional, is worth more than any tool — including this one.

The calculator is on the homepage. If you’re still weighing the decision, the guide walks through the money math in depth; if you’ve already decided to leave, the first 30 days is the practical part.