![]() ![]() While I am not encouraging you to do the same but at the same time, if you know in your gut that you’re not in the right place (like I did), sometimes the only thing to do is quit. But luckily with the right skills, I managed to maintain my freelancing business even till today. Should I have at least secured a few interviews and checked out the job market before quitting? Probably. Looking back, going from having a job to nothing at all probably wasn’t the smartest thing. Plus, I had absolutely zero clue how I was going to go freelance with no experience doing it at all. ![]() ![]() Well, something did…but that lasted only for three months before I realised that the culture wasn’t right for me.īut now, I didn’t have the comfort and security of a traditional full-time job to help me with the bills. I was going to go freelance until something else came along. It felt pretty bad ass at that time, to go at it guns loaded thinking that somehow everything will fall into place. Nope, I just wrote my letter, served my noticed, and that was that. I didn’t apply for any jobs, go for an interviews or even put it out there that I was looking for something. Problem was I didn’t have any backup plan. What started as a great job ended up being something that was a routine, mundane and stressful at the same time.īy the end of it, I dreaded going to work. Plus, I didn’t feel like I was growing in terms of my career because I was busy dealing with deadlines and nothing else. I was working for a media company and while the job role was great (editor of a magazine) but the perks weren’t exactly cutting it for me, not with the amount of work I was putting in. you know deep down inside that where you are right now is not the place for you so no point staying on.Ĭue to a few years back… and that was me. you really can’t stand your current work and want to leave right now, and B. Especially now when things aren’t so good on the employment front with people losing their jobs, graduates not being able to find work, salary cuts and what nots.īut what if you don’t exactly have a plan because A. Everyone tells you that you need to have a backup first before you quit your job. ![]()
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