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I took a 90% pay cut, here’s why you should too
- plemaster 5y agoI wrote an article on the misconception that corporate jobs are the best decision for most people. Let me know what you think! :)
- theandrewbailey 5y agoThe article's title seems clickbaity and out of touch.
- plemaster 5y agoThanks for the feedback :) Do you have recommendations on how you would change it?
- jaclaz 5y agoSeen from a distance, it looks like a non-sequitur of sorts. I mean: >Once I had enough money for around 6 months, I finally quit my job. How much time has passed since? (like three days, three weeks, three months) What is the plan when the 6 months elapse? Or, if you prefer, is the whole idea a radical change of the way of living or some sort of sabbatical?
- plemaster 5y agoOkay I see. I didn't want to spend too much time on the "how I quit my job" because my main objective here was why I think people should take a shot on their dreams at least once. The idea around my 6 months of runway was to give myself a deadline such that once the time is complete, I could say "okay this isn't working, I need to find a job" or "this is going great, let's keep at it." Thanks for the feedback!
- jaclaz 5y agoYep, but, you see, it is not like a "success story" (so that you can actually say "you should do it", or - possibly better - "it worked for me") nor a "defeat story" (so that you actually can say "you shouldn't do it" or - again possibly better - "it didn't work for me"), right now it is just "I did something, I have no idea what will happen next, you should do the same" which - put in these terms - doesn't sound like "good" advice.