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I used to work as a tech support rep for a huge cable company and hated it. I had to do a 2 hour commute to work and deal with angry customers all day over the
by clark-kent 12y ago
I used to work as a tech support rep for a huge cable company and hated it. I had to do a 2 hour commute to work and deal with angry customers all day over the phone, my company often released products that don't work, like we rolled out a disastrous digital phone service, a video-on-demand service that should still be in pre-beta and it was my job to support all these bad products.
As I worked for the cable company, I also had a side project app I was working on. Soon my app started making money, in 6 months it made its first $1000. Then sales started doubling every week, in the next 2 months my app was making more than double my fulltime job's salary at the cable company.
I hated my fulltime job but i didn't want to quit a stable job. Unable to make the decision to quit, I called in sick one day, and then stayed home for 2 weeks, I was secretly hoping to be fired. I showed up at work 2 weeks later and no one seemed to notice I was gone. Some people thought I was just working a different shift. My supervisor didn't really notice. So I finally decided it was time to quit. Told my supervisor I was quitting because I started a new business I wanted to focus on instead. She was very cool about it, told me they like me and would hire me again if I every wanted to come back and that was it.