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The Inforium

Quitting Your Job to Work for Yourself (Ep. 95)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

So you want to quit your job: maybe you've got a business idea, maybe you want to freelance, or maybe you just hate it and don't really have a plan. How do you go about it? How much do you need in savings? Today's episode is all about that. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: DIY Video Guy Caleb Wojcik Films Caleb's YouTube channel Connect with Caleb on Twitter My interview on the DIY Video Guy podcast - earning 150,000 YouTube subscribers in a year The Fizzle Show Smart Passive Income Startup Podcast (listen from the beginning - I loved Season 1. Season 2 is unrelated and of lower quality IMO) The Personal MBA - one of my essential books for students The Dip What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up? Virtual Freedom Chris Guillebeau Gear Doesn't Matter Casey Neistat - Maxing out credit card Stop Trying to Find Your Passion Jetpack Joyride Helicopter game (procrastination warning) Health Insurance fee Dustin Hoffman - Acting Masterclass Social Network soundtrack Can Music Help You Study More Effectively? Team Crispy MKBHD Unbox Therapy Amy Schmittauer Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the college info geek

0:41.0

podcast.

0:42.0

My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps

0:44.0

you become a more effective student. And in this episode I'm going to be a little honest this

0:48.7

topic might be a bit advanced for some of you but it is a question that I do get often and the question is this

0:54.1

I want to quit my job and start working for myself pretty simple no of course it's not

1:00.9

simple and it's really scary and I keep getting this question from either from people who are you know just out of college and they started their first job or maybe they've been in a job for a while and either they hate their job completely. It's absolutely not what they expected it to be or they're okay with their job they like it but they have an idea that they really want to pursue and there's something they really want to do on their own so now they're facing this, do I quit my job to start my own business or to start

1:25.8

working for myself in like a freelance, you know, situation or something like that? Well, that's

1:31.4

a tough question to answer, but luckily I have a good number of friends who have done it, including my friend Caleb Wajik, who has been in the show before, if you've listened to episode 9, I talk with him about building a diverse skill set and back then Caleb was actually

1:44.0

working for our mutual friend Corbett Barr who had a site at the time called Think Traffic.

1:48.4

Now Think Traffic eventually evolved into something called Fizzle and built a bigger team and

1:52.2

Caleb was one of those original team

1:53.8

members but he was still kind of an employee of Fizzle and today that is no longer the case because

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