Staying Paid

Quitting My Day Job: How a Head Injury Made Me Realize That Now Is The Right Time To Quit My Day Job

Posted on April 7th, 2008 in Breaking Fear, Business, Creation Station, Empowerment, General dedication, faith, freedom, hard work, quitting my job, security, seperation, stability, time freedom, working from home

After three months of wringing my hands, writing pro-con lists, and asking everyone from my mother down to the taxi driver, I put in my two weeks’ notice at the day job. I did it without pointing fingers, without yelling, without being ugly or acting like a downright idiot. I went into a small meeting room, gave my boss a typed letter with all the important information, and thanked her for the obvious opportunity of being there.

There was some nervousness on my part, but putting in my two week notice was the best thing I could have done for this business. You see, there’s a lot of people that sit on their heels waiting for the “right” time to come when all lights are green and the angels sing and the clouds circle and reshape to form “It’s Show Time!” in big puffy cloud-letters. However, there will never be that perfect time, so why not assess your risk and keep moving?

I have little to lose and so much to gain taking the plunge into making a living online full time — I’m a college student with a passion for writing and selling product. I don’t have a lot of expenses, so even a modest attempt at making money online would indeed cover my living expenses.  A few lifestyle changes (like getting a roomate) would further drop my cost of living, but that’s another post for another day.

The emotion that’s running through me right now is excitement, but I’ll be honest — there’s some hesitation there too. This is what I’ve always wanted and I need to just do it, and correct course as I go along. This blog is about the journey, and I’ll be talking to lots of folks as I get there — I’m always reachable at nichelady at gmail dot com, if you want to drop a line.

Getting paid isn’t the question when you’re starting out — it’s staying paid. That was the inspiration for this site — I wanted to share with you both the technical aspects and the emotional aspects of leaving the workplace behind and keeping it behind you as you move forward in your life.

It sounds easy, but it’s not. In fact, if it were easy you wouldn’t appreciate it. If you decide to go on this journey, you will sweat, you will cry, and you will bleed. At least I’m being honest — I’ve derived a nice secondary income online since 2004, and now I’m going to leave the “security” of a traditional day job and do this full time.

For the last few days of writing blogs, reading boards, talking to interesting marketers and polishing my shiny portfolio, I realized that even though I won’t have the comfort of that biweekly check, I’m building something that I get to own for the rest of my life, rain or shine, sickness or health. That’s the power of business, and that’s what I believe will really change lives.

I want to create. I plan on writing free guides on building business systems online, everything from selecting the products you want to promote all the way up to pitching to your prospect.

I think that’s all for now, except for a drop of gratitude to my long time best friend and business partner, Joshua Tryon of Stumbling Through Life. I can’t thank him enough for his “in the trenches” support of me and this crazy idea of becoming a digital diva. Thanks, J! :)