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I've been doing that, to some degree, for the last six months. When I decided I needed to get out, I started diverting as much money as possible to savings (~3

I've been doing that, to some degree, for the last six months. When I decided I needed to get out, I started diverting as much money as possible to savings (~30% of my monthly, basically everything that isn't food/rent/utilities). The real problem with my current job is that it's both time intensive (50-60 hours/week) and pays next to nothing ($32k pre-tax, living in Boston). I should probably be working in the evenings to save more money, but I'm trying to work on my coding skills so I can actually make the transition. The job originally made perfect sense if I wanted to stay in academic biology, since I would now have a killer recommendation from MIT. Hell, the salary is better than grad students! But since I want to change careers, it is a complete dead end that I need to get out of.

keeptrying 15y ago
Your doing the right thing. LEarning to code. But I would try to get two or three projects and at least 1 paid project under your belt before you quit. Once you dont have money coming in on a regular basis you have to deal with all the psychology that goes with it. Its hard - really hard. Also cut back to 40 hours a week in your day job ... I mean you dont care right? Use that time to start doing coding work. But get to paid work first and get bunch of clients. If you cant then I would say at the very least go stay with your parents or anyone who would have you. $7K is really not enough. I stuck it out 1 year extra when I hated my position. And I'm very very happy I did that.