Quitting your job is the easy part. Legitimately replacing it is the hard part.
There are some nice thoughts here but I'd like to know what the plan is to survive. Its certainly possible to make it but I feel like this is glorifying a situation that most people once on the other side of the fence are going to be under stress and realize things are not necessarily so rosy. You have savings - great step. You have some things your working on - great step. Now how do you start making just enough money before your runway ends and you have to either go back to a job or start eating into your own time to do consulting (which is basically employment from my perspective).
Ill admit Im a relatively risk averse person but Id say the best plan is the 1 step plan where the time you are spending on your own business becomes more profitable than going to work - easier said than done but thats my 2 cents.
I'm on the other side of the fence now. Yes, it's much harder, and much more stressful, but it's on my terms.
There's a lot more to this story, but I've decided to draw this out over a couple posts.
Funny you mention being risk averse. I've talked about this with my cofounder, and we don't see doing this as being risky. We see taking jobs as being risky, because we feel like we are losing out on doing something we like more and wasting our lives.
There are some nice thoughts here but I'd like to know what the plan is to survive. Its certainly possible to make it but I feel like this is glorifying a situation that most people once on the other side of the fence are going to be under stress and realize things are not necessarily so rosy. You have savings - great step. You have some things your working on - great step. Now how do you start making just enough money before your runway ends and you have to either go back to a job or start eating into your own time to do consulting (which is basically employment from my perspective).
Ill admit Im a relatively risk averse person but Id say the best plan is the 1 step plan where the time you are spending on your own business becomes more profitable than going to work - easier said than done but thats my 2 cents.