Archived Anybody quit their 40+ hour a week office job to have more free time? (AskVoat)
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Archived Anybody quit their 40+ hour a week office job to have more free time? (AskVoat)
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[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] redditaccountlogin ago
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....
[–] zbou 6 points -3 points 3 points (+3|-6) ago
Too much punctuation is your problem. Commas overlapping; semicolons, it's! like reading Kirk speak.
[–] 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?
[–] qel33 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Quit and became a teacher. No it's not anymore fulfilling than an office job but it's definitely more fun/interesting and I get my summers off.
No regrets though ask me again in 2 weeks.
[–] 6102482? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I quit mine and now I'm posting this from a computer at the library. Please help me!
[–] jeegte12 0 points 16 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago
here's your first tip: don't look for a job on voat
[–] 6105141? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
But that guy said that if I mailed him my underwear he'd pay me.
[–] Fobhobble ago
Help with what? You're using your newly gained free time to read!
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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.
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[–] redditaccountlogin ago
no idea what your situation is but the first few years were a big struggle when i did the same thing. What I realised is that I was starting again from scratch, the same way you do when you first get out of high school/college/whatever. I didn't get a good job straight away then either, had to be a shitkicker for a few years. Same thing happened again when I threw it all in and started again.
No idea if this applies to you or not. But it might do.