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I quit my last real full time job in 2015 (CTO at my own tech startup with around 130 employees at the time), with no plans whatsoever. I felt burned out and wanted some rest and a new career path. The first project I tried was writing a book. A few months in I realized I didn't enjoy writing as much as I thought I would, but I found myself taking longer and longer breaks to go out photographing with my camera. Photo…
This thread seems to take a very optimistic view of quitting, and that getting another job was easy as a fallback option. I can say as an average dev in the Bay Area, I've failed the vast majority of first round technical screens I've encountered. Consequently, I basically have nothing to show for the last 3 months. For someone like me, I guess I'll be working the same job (which I am rated highly at) until I can actually retire.
After skimming half the thread and only seeing one view (DO IT! It’s GREAT!), I’m going to throw this out there: - You will have heavy selection bias here (people who did not succeed might be working at a crappier job and unable to comment at this moment) - You will also have confirmation bias among those who willingly quit (“of course it was the right move”) - You are asking a very unique set of people with very val…
What I've encountered: 1. I've never had bigger improvements in my financial outcomes than when I said 'f-it' and pulled the ripcord 2. Doing so dropped my into a stresspit that was grinding me into a red paste, resulting eventually in being Riffed 3. Which let me find a job that, while not great, has good work/life balance and is good for me, at this time, in my walk down my path.
Go into it informed and mindfully and you'll probably be fine, assuming you're in a market that needs you (A french chef in Washington, KS...population 1100, is probably not going to have a sustainable skillset in Washington, KS)
Dad told me 'Never quit on a Friday', but he was also a fan of trusting your skills to support you.
Note: I am not an engineer. I’m mostly skilled in telling stories. I got fired from every job I ever had before I started working for myself. Each time I left I ended up in a better job until the last time when I got laid off from a telecom PM role. I went to look for another job and never found one. At the time I was living paycheck to paycheck (barely) so this was quite scary. I did have a small severance but that…
What kind of friends do you have that have loanable startup money?
I think you and I come from totally different classes in life.
I quit just last week. Saved up 10 years worth of salaries. Currently on the doing nothing stage. Doing more sports, running/cycling everyday, taking my time to cook, more time for kids, so far so good, i have no plans for the future, whatever happens happens. Previously i was working 15 hours a day, i did like my job but was impacting my health severely.
Practical question: if you're in the US, how do you deal with health insurance?
I moved from Seattle -> Hong Kong, circa 2012, with a contracting job to an old team in Seattle. About 6-7 months in HK, the team said no more contractors or remote members, and I was effectively out of a job.
The original goal of moving to HK was to learn Cantonese (mother tongue) so I said maybe I should actually do my goal and started taking classes. That didn't work out so well. While I learned Cantonese, it's not at any useful left (can't even speak to 5 year olds for any meaningful length). I did get married instead! So it worked out.
If you're young with little responsibilities, I say do it.
"They" always say it's harder to do it while you're older. For me and everyone I know, this is 100% true. While always possible, a lot more care and planning needs to happen even with a significant other.
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Same feeling with the passive time being filled with YouTube. Hard to avoid as their app captures you at every interaction point. I just want to watch YouTube videos from friends...
Try NewPipe if on Android: https://newpipe.net . You can disable comments and recommended videos, at night I just do a search on some of my favorite channels (despite everyone moaning "please like and subscribe" I think I have one channel I subscribe to, I guess I do miss a lot of things) to see if they have new content.
Try https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe. It has Sponsorblock integration. Meanwhile upstream newpipe refuses to integrate it: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe#why-isnt-this-in...
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Money isn't the same thing as a plan. If anything, it's the exact opposite: You have the freedom to do many things, so there's more uncertainty than someone with less money.
Also, only 10 years of salary means you'll eventually have to start working again... so no plan means that you don't know what you'll do after 10 years
I was laid off five years ago, and I never found another job. Ended up spending a month doing the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and doing more stuff like swing dancing. Later on I met someone at a swing dance that I worked on a "side project" for a long time that became our current startup, which has been more meaningful to me than any job I've worked previously. (We're doing health and biotech and save people from ho…