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For almost 20 years, I worked inside the finance industry. This required that I stay licensed by recertifying every few years. I had conversations with people at every stage of their financial life and presented complex financial products to blue-collar workers, millionaires, and C-suite executives. Over those years, I generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for the firms I worked for, and I trained hundreds of new financial professionals to do the same. Eventually, I became a Vice President at a well-known company. By every measure that's supposed to matter, I had it figured out. The title, the income, the security. I had built the exact life I was told to want. Then one day I was sitting in an annual review, and I realized, “This company doesn’t value me as much as I have sacrificed to stay here, waking up at 3 AM almost every night in a panic, and dreading Monday mornings. I am sick of building someone else’s dream instead of my own.” So, 6 years ago, I sat down to make the biggest financial decision of my life: I decided to engineer my exit from the corporate world. And I froze. It didn’t make sense. I had the education; I had talked to hundreds of people about the same kinds of decisions, and all of a sudden, I was like a deer in headlights. I ran the numbers over and over, paid other people to validate my decision, and for the next five years, I kept talking myself out of it. It took me far too long to see what was actually happening: it was never the numbers holding me back. It was my own doubt. The moment I understood that the floodgates opened. I built a system, put my head down, and executed on it one step at a time. Things happened fast after that. Now, I am out. I work as a Ski Patroller in the winter (a lifelong dream of mine!), and I built this business, betting on a vision that was mine, and mine alone. I know how hard it is to decide to bet on yourself and quit corporate. I've been there. My goal has become to find people just like I was: people who have the income, maybe even done the math, and still can't pull the trigger.
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So why do people QUIT?
A few years ago, I sat in a meeting listening to a new leader pitch the exact same "transformation" our old leader had pitched three years before. Pretty much the same initiatives, different name on the title page. And I remember the specific feeling of it; not anger, not even boredom. Nothing. I didn't care. That's when I knew something in me had already left, even though I still had another four years in that seat. So...why do so many people want to leave their corporate jobs? They worked for years to get where they are. It is not easy to become a high earner at a large company. They got the benefits and the money. That gave them many of the things in life they had dreamed about: cars, a house, vacations. Talking about work with their friends makes them feel good. The title sounds impressive, and people say "Wow, nice!" The security that comes with a stable job is not just financial; it becomes part of your identity, even if it is a mirage in this day and age. And for many people, this is enough. Some people thrive in this environment. For others, there comes a day (not always a big one) when they start to question whether they could be doing more, whether what they're doing now fulfills them, or whether the trade-offs are worth the returns. These people begin to realize: They sacrificed personal time with family for superficial relationships with co-workers and clients. The work they are doing has become one cog in a machine that never actually makes anything, except more work for the machine sold to their clients by manufactured demand. The benefits act like handcuffs and earmuffs, expected to buy your silence too. The bulk of what happens inside a large corporation is "cover your ass," instead of supplying a need. And these things start to eat away at them. This creates doubt and insecurity. It causes once proud and confident people to start shedding what makes them great friends, wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, sons, or daughters. I'm not saying the answer is always to quit and bet everything on something new.
So why do people QUIT?
Wait or Walk?
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