[–] TheTrigger 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yip. Grew some balls and used my honed talents to become self-employed; not gonna lie, it's pretty rough at first. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without a safety-net and well-padded alcohol budget.
If I could go back, I'd probably ween in to it instead of quitting the day job, outright. Although, I'm not the type to get stuff done unless there's a fire under my ass. So there's that.
[–] TheTrigger 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
I guess I could ignore proper spelling conventions for the sake of succinctness but then the problem would arise that I do in fact know how to spell correctly and it annoys me when others don't so in this case I'll just stick to my guns and do it anyway since the alternative would be to dumb down the spelling to an elementary school level and that's just not something I'm willing to do since I get enough of that shit dealing with people in real life so there
evened out enough for you?
Same story, definitely a more gradual transition would work better. It never occurred to me that I was basically starting again on the bottom rung of the ladder and the income was going to be pretty awful for a long time....
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[–] Goatburger 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Not to rain on your parade, but seemingly half of my friends have done this. They all struggle to get enough clients, whinge about paying rent at gyms and spend their whole day filling in time between clients. Oh and everyone wants sessions after work/on weekends so they end up working antisocial hours. And the pay is shit.
I'll put up with my boss and take my $100k/9-5 job thanks.
[–] Gigglestick ago
How do you do that? I'll do that... I'm in a kitchen doing 60 hours a week. I will take boring office job!
[–] clockwise 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Worked in corporate IT for a multi national and handed in my notice in 97. I hated losing the six weeks holiday and healthcare but it was a trade for sanity. The first couple of years were spent wishing for the phone to ring but after building up a client base it has been a good life. Went through expanding up to 10 employees and ended up stressed out again. Dropped back down to a single person operation and enjoy working a couple of hours a day with no stress. 10/10 would do it again.
[–] oedipusaurus_rex 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I've done it a couple of times now. I worked at a call center, collecting on credit cards. I ended up moving to NYC and decided not to transfer within the company. I ended up teaching beginner level robotics to spoiled brats at a glorified toy story. I ended up joining the Navy, which was a pretty sweet gig. I didn't want to spend my life doing it though, so I quit when my contract was up. Now I measure dirt and write technical papers about how the wind interacts with it for a living. It's not much money at all right now, but if I can get certified as a geologist and find work, it will pay off quite a bit.
[–] oedipusaurus_rex 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
CIWS tech.
For the layman: CIWS is a 6 barrel gatling gun hooked up to a couple of radars that will track and automatically shoot incoming aircraft/missiles/whatever as long as it's going fast enough. I did the repair, maintenance, and operated it.
[–] Lemongarb 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
I did. I started my own business doing basically the same thing, but much more relaxed because I went after a different market. Life's too short to deal with bullshit.