Corporate job or self employment?? Comparing my 9-5 to being an influencer | Ep. 48
Fun on Weekdays
Jenna Palek
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Can you believe it’s almost been an entire year since I quit my corporate job for Fun on Weekdays full-time?!? In Episode 48, let’s reflect on the advantages & disadvantages of working my 9-5 to being a full time influencer. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side and there are many days that I miss aspects of my corporate job. From schedules, to accountability, mental health, relatability, and how I have fun on weekdays, I share the biggest differences in transitioning to a self-employed girly.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone! It's another week, another Tuesday, another episode of Fun on Weekdays podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | My name is Jenna. I'm the host, and I'm super excited for today's episode, but before we get into it, |
| 0:14.6 | I wanted to give you all an update on my life what's going on. |
| 0:18.4 | So, a couple weeks ago, gosh, I'm looking at my calendar that's sitting right across me right now, |
| 0:24.4 | and I think it was three weeks ago. |
| 0:28.0 | I was in Cleveland, so I went to a friend's wedding in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:32.0 | It was actually in Wheeling, West Virginia, but Pittsburgh is like the closest major city to it, |
| 0:36.8 | so I was there, and then I went home to Cleveland for a week. |
| 0:40.8 | I had an event in Cleveland. It was amazing. |
| 0:44.4 | Amazing is like not even the best way to describe it. |
| 0:47.6 | It was really, really surreal to be with everybody from the town that I grew up in, Painsville, |
| 0:52.8 | and also so cool to meet so many people that I've never met in my 21 years of living in Cleveland. |
| 1:00.0 | So, thank you to everyone who came out to that event. There were 350 people. |
| 1:03.6 | We had some drag queens absolutely killing it. |
| 1:06.8 | We had bracelets being zapped onto everyone's wrists. |
| 1:10.6 | Mine is actually stuck in my arm here right now as I'm looking at it. |
| 1:15.0 | We had cotton candy. We had it all. It was such a good time. |
| 1:19.0 | Really, really happy with how that went. |
| 1:20.6 | Then I came back to Austin for just honestly, I think it was like five days before I left again, |
| 1:27.2 | and I went to Michigan. |
| 1:28.6 | I was just a Michigan for the past week, celebrating 4th of July, |
| 1:32.6 | and honestly, the fact that there was really horrible cell phone reception was such a blessing in disguise. |
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