How can I quit the job?!

[Vigilante]

I still remember that morning.

I finally got to sleep around 4AM, and woke up at 6AM in a cold sweat. Every single dollar I had went into the company. I didn't have much debt due to the buyout of my company... just $2k per month in car payments. And a mortgage. A wife and two kids.

I bet they wondered how I would respond. A few months earlier, it looks like I might be able to retire before 40. I had it made. All the time spent in the trenches would finally pay off. We had house plans. Vacation plans. Life plans. I could taste it. I spent it 100x in my mind. We literally had house plans for a 9,000 square foot house that the architect had finished.

Then, I woke up in a cold sweat. Less than 24 hours earlier, it all went away. For reasons I am not free to talk about in the open forum, I lost it all. Not the wife, not the kids... but the company.

So I woke up. With my wife, but very much alone. Everything we had planned for... was... gone. The $2k in car payments (insane? depends on your perceived "income")... the house. The kids. Gas. Food. Life. The obligations remained, but the cash was... gone.

I woke up alone with my dreams. Shattered.

I had to start from zero. My monthly nut was close to $10k. I had no job. No income. No savings. Nothing but my rolodex and my mind. And my scars.

It took me a few days. That's all the time I had. It took me a few days to shake off the cobwebs. It took me a few days to put my shoes back on my feet. To breathe. To sit up. To think. Clearly.

To begin.

So... why don't you tell me more about how you can't figure out how, with your parents paying your rent and a car payment that is more like a rounding error... why you can't begin?

You don't even know yet what you don't know. Shake off the fear. You have more in hand than 99% of people who start to learn how to blaze their own path. You don't even know difficulty.

Stop F*cking crying and get on with life, or settle in to a life of flipping burgers to make money for some guy you perceive to be a big roller.

Life is hard. Cut the apron strings and get on with it.

 

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[JasonR]

I just need the free time and I need the energy to do it, which is currently being wasted on my stupid a$$ F*cking dead end job.

Nope. This is an excuse. I started my business while I had a full time job; many people do. I didn't go out with friends, I didn't party, I didn't sleep much. Three months later, I quit my job (I should have quit on month 2).

 

[AroundTheWorld]

The possibilities are endless..... I don't know your situation, but:

Work on your biz after hours / before hours / weekends
Partner with someone so it happens quicker
Move in with your parents
Move in with your girlfriend
Take on a roommate
Cancel your cable / TV / Cell
Sell your car and buy a piece of junk
Sell your car and use public transportation

 

[JEdwards]

Breakdown of my monthly expenses:

$280 car payment
$70 cell phone
$50 for car insurance, I'm on my parents' plan still
$75 for random past due bills
$100 for groceries

I just need the free time and I need the energy to do it, which is currently being wasted on my stupid a$$ F*cking dead end job.

If you can't make $500 bucks a month as a hustler/business owner you might want to give up now and look for a better job.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

I work around 50 hours, I understand what you guys are trying to say, I really do, it's not that I can't handle the job or the hours required of an entrepreneur but I guess I would much rather work my a$$ off for myself than someone else.

Good. But remember, it doesn't happen overnight. How old are you?

As for the other 118 hours in the week, I spend roughly 5 a night sleeping, so that's 35 hours a week, and the other time I spend doing research/learning to copywrite/code etc.

Great start. Do you have a plan? A vehicle? An idea? Have you found a need?

My main problem is I jump around too much in terms of what I'm trying to learn or do research on because I'm usually afraid one idea wont work or whatever, I need to be more myopically focused for sure.

Great! So, this is ACTUALLY what this thread is about.
You won't be able to quit your job until you figure this piece out.
And then, start working on THAT every day.

It will come. But, not overnight.
Find a need. Focus your energy on that need.
Work on it every day.
Learn what you need to learn so that you can build a business around that need.

 

[Kak]

I just got a raise. $9.29 per hour now. 72 cents raise. WOO! Talk about movin' up in the world, eh?
Sad part is, my raise is considered good by the companies method of doing things.

Let's just put it this way, my boss is a guy named Herb Washington who is a former well known athlete who is retired and now owns 27 McDonald's throughout Ohio and Western PA. He's a stingy bastard.

Your wages are directly proportional to the value you provide. The reason you get paid 10 bucks an hour is that in your current role you are not worth more than 10 bucks an hour. It is a reality that you'll have to deal with.

Your boss isn't stingy, he is paying market value.

 

[LightHouse]

You talk about your job lie is an entitlement, hateful you have a job number 1. You think work is hard now? You have set hours, you get a paycheck, you have duties and that ends when you leave the place. What do you think life as an entrepreneur is like?

It sounds like you want the freedom but not the work ethic and instability/uncertainty of it all.

 

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[smarty]

I work around 50 hours, I understand what you guys are trying to say, I really do, it's not that I can't handle the job or the hours required of an entrepreneur but I guess I would much rather work my a$$ off for myself than someone else.

My main problem is I jump around too much in terms of what I'm trying to learn or do research on because I'm usually afraid one idea wont work or whatever, I need to be more myopically focused for sure.

I'm not making any excuses, it's something I wish I could force myself to do, I've been trying.

You are definitely making excuses. Take the advice that @AroundTheWorld gave you above and don't try to learn everything, coding etc. Apply a few things instead and learn while applying.

It seems your problem is that you keep yourself so busy but not being productive. Being busy and being productive are very different...

I find it so easy to spot excuses on someone else but I often catch myself doing the same, being busy and not producing anything.

 

[Kak]

If you really needed to you could:

Sell the car and get a 1500 dollar moped (where are you going now anyway?)
Liability only for the moped (you'll be dead if you wreck anyway)
Cable? Kill it
Internet can be done for 29 bucks a month. Use IP apps like vonage for phone
Then get a shit apartment for 400 bucks a month.

You could live on less than a grand per month like this.

 

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[Mrs. BRKb]

...I just need the free time and I need the energy to do it, which is currently being wasted on my stupid a$$ F*cking dead end job.

Warning ya now, you are gonna get the fastlane forum tough love in this thread. "The community that tells it like it is." LOL!

Try entering the FL Miracle Morning book contest. There's a world of time out there for peeps who know their goals, and act. (That's the diff between entrepreneur and WANTrepreneur.)

 

[JAJT]

Get rid of the car and data plan. You've just saved $360.

If you can't come up with $215... well I don't know what to say.

 

[LightHouse]

Not only are you full of excuses and in action right now, you keep going off topic as if we care that much. Your expenses are extremely low. Start getting to work, focus and use all of your time as it is do or die.

You want to prove to yourself that you are above being a manager at McDonalds... well i don't believe that right now and i don't think you do either. So it is time to prove that to yourself and stop daydreaming that you are entitled to anything better.

 

[DeletedUser2]

My main problem is I jump around too much in terms of what I'm trying to learn

Stop.
Pick 1 thing
do that. keep doing that eventually, you will stop sucking

also, it may take you 2 yrs.
or more

Z

 

[snowbank]

So... why don't you tell me more about how you can't figure out how, with your parents paying your rent and a car payment that is more like a rounding error... why you can't begin?

I feel like the aspiring entrepreneurs who "want to make money", but don't necessarily need to, sometimes lack the hustle. Sometimes having nothing actually increases the success someone can have, because they HAVE to hustle to make it.

I know for me, when I didn't have anything at all, I hustled like crazy. I've found it hard at times to hustle as hard over the years because I didn't necessarily HAVE to make money, and making more didn't really change my lifestyle much.

However, @twdavis— if you can't figure out how to make a few hundred dollars/month to quit your job, you have done zero due diligence on anything making money related. I think many people on this forum could do that blindfolded, in a different country where they don't speak english, in a wheelchair, without being allowed to take a shower for the month.

 

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[smarty]

How can you quit the job you ask?

QUIT.

Option 2: tell your boss that he is an @$$ hole. Instantly fired

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[Mrs. BRKb]

Thought of you when I saw this @twdavis . You will find a way.


“Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways,

but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.”

 

[Heisenberg]

I want to quit my job and work full time on a Fastlane idea so bad but I have a $280/mo car payment to make

 

[AroundTheWorld]

I just need the free time and I need the energy to do it, which is currently being wasted on my stupid a$$ F*cking dead end job.

How many hours a week are you at this job? (including commute)
You are alive for 168 hours a week.
What are you doing for those remaining hours?

 

[twdavis]

You are definitely making excuses. Take the advice that @AroundTheWorld gave you above and don't try to learn everything, coding etc. Apply a few things instead and learn while applying.

It seems your problem is that you keep yourself so busy but not being productive. Being busy and being productive are very different...

I find it so easy to spot excuses on someone else but I often catch myself doing the same, being busy and not producing anything.

Know what? You hit the nail on the head. I spend so much time trying to figure too much crap out that it confuses and puts me into a fog and I can't think clearly, I'm just busy for the sake of being busy without actually making any progress or accomplishing anything.

 

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[socaldude]

You will never quit your job as long as you are dominated by a selfish purpose and a selfish premise.

-I hate my job!
-I need to make money to pay the bills!
-This job is crippling my ego!

All of this talk and not once was consumer problems or solutions mentioned. Where is the value? The market does not give a shit about your hopes and dreams. You can't quit your job unless you provide value in an alternate wealth vehicle. I know this has been repeated over and over but its simple and powerful.

1. Cut expenses as low as you can.
2. Keep fixed costs as low as possible. Get rid of the car. No mortgages. No child support. No nothing. Sacrifice.
3. Provide BETTER solutions. Provide BETTER value. Be an expert in your field and know the market better than anybody else.

There then you can quit your job. Explosive deliverance of value in an alternate and unlimited wealth vehicle is how you quit the job and become a millionaire.

Entrepreneurship is not a playing field to solve your own problems, its a playing field to solve other people's problems.

 

[amk]

I just wanted some tips on how to replace that income so that I could spend all of my time committing to a bigger venture.

Here's more than a tip, but an exact idea I use from time to time to generate a few extra bucks. You won't get rich, but it will easily cover your monthly expenses. I can also help you get started if you need. It does take a small initial investment (few hundred dollars?) and a small learning curve (youtube/google for how-to's), but after that it's easy and really simple: Make/sell decals. I have only sold on eBay and have always had success -- once you have your processes automated you'd be surprised how easy an hour a day can generate $1000/month.

Go somewhere like http://www.signwarehouse.com/, order supplies, order the cheapest "decent" vinyl cutter you can get (maybe buy one off eBay? Actually, I have one to sell for cheap -- I'm in Minneapolis if you're near). Find vector graphic art CD's (buy off eBay, again) and make/sell decals. You make them to order so you're never wasting any vinyl. Things like peace signs, etc., are free of any copyright/trademark and people pay $5/each all day. You'll make around $2-3 off that. It's so easy to list a huge batch and cut a huge batch of them, you can easily sell 10-20 a day (find 10-20 different "regular" sellers, like the peace sign I was pointing out). You can easily research others auctions to see what people are buying, too.

Good luck!

 

[Joshyybaxx]

Start the idea out small, scale it up to the point where it replaces your income (at least to the point where it covers your expenses then make the leap, no one is suggesting quitting income with nothing to replace it, you could also take part time/casual work whilst building it if you absolutely must leave the current position, but I wouldn't suggest it until you've had the biz idea tested and it's viable.

 

[Joshyybaxx]

Stop looking at it so negatively, someone is going to pay you $$ which is going to be used to grow you business, find time, kick it off the ground and build up momentum then take it on full time where you can pull $$ out of the biz itself to cover your expenses.

It's not the easy thing you want to hear but it's the thing you need to do.

 

[1step]

https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...in-a-month-with-craigslist.49605/#post-321921
and
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...s-guide-to-buying-and-selling-anything.35889/

You can easily make $500 a month.

You currently work 50 hours a week, using craigslist you could easily make $500 in 10-20 hours and thats starting with nothing.

 

[twdavis]

I dont think you guys understood me, I wasn't whining or asking for any handouts, I just wanted some tips on how to replace that income so that I could spend all of my time committing to a bigger venture. I'm aware that my costs are not that significant, I just wanted some ideas, is all.



I think now I'm gonna go hard as F*ck this year and really sit down and focus all my time and energy, because first of all, I need to discipline myself.

Second of all, I refuse to F*cking have anyone think I'm a weak whinebaby or whatever the impression is that you've gained about me from this thread.




Just wait.


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[Trivium iz rC]

There's no such thing as "Quitting your job the next day & magically earning income"

It's a process not a event. Keep your job to pay your bills and work on your business every other waking hour. Find a need in the market, make sure it has value and test it. There's 24 hours in a day. Let's say you work 7 days a week for 8 hours a day for your job. 24-8=16 hours, minus 4 hours a day to sleep still leaves you with 12 hours in that day. Which equates to 84 hours a week that you have to "start" or "pursue" your fast lane business. Time def isn't an issue.

When my expenses were too much I asked myself. What were my "Needs" & what were the luxuries:

Get Rid Of The Car & Insurance
Cancel Your Data Plan & Buy A Tracphone For $20 w/ pre-paid mins
Move back with my Parents
If you have a gf tell her your not going out anymore.

 

[brob742]

I don't think anyone is saying quit the job with no plan. You need to give yourself some runway and have a solid gameplan in place.
Giving yourself some runway means having enough money saved to live on until generating income to cover your expenses.

Sell the car (you won't have car insurance anymore), lose the cell phone contract and head to SE Asia. This is just one of many options, but I know money goes much further there and can extend your runway. There is also a great entrepreneur scene there that you could plug into.

I believe @Jake has insight into this world.

 

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[StayPositive]

Create your business while you are still keeping your 9-5 job. Take a first small step. Set a commitment that you will earn $100 in three months from now. Then scale it until you cover your MUST-HAVE expenses.

Step by step, but set up the deadline. D-day will motivate you.

 

[DrkSide]

It seems as though you don't have that much for monthly payments. Have you looked at taking a skill that you have and consulting?

Also, learn a skill that will relate to your fastlane idea such as website, SEO, facebook marketing and sell that service to local businesses.

Another idea is to flip things on craigslist to ebay or amazon.

There are so many ways that you can do this.

 

[Kak]

I work around 50 hours, I understand what you guys are trying to say, I really do, it's not that I can't handle the job or the hours required of an entrepreneur but I guess I would much rather work my a$$ off for myself than someone else.

As for the other 118 hours in the week, I spend roughly 5 a night sleeping, so that's 35 hours a week, and the other time I spend doing research/learning to copywrite/code etc.


My main problem is I jump around too much in terms of what I'm trying to learn or do research on because I'm usually afraid one idea wont work or whatever, I need to be more myopically focused for sure.


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Wait you work around 50 hours per week, your expenses are less than 500 bucks a month and you don't have any money put away? My brother caddies at a golf course and makes your nut in a weekend.

I'm pretty sure panhandlers make more than 50 bucks a day. Lol