So let’s talk about the elephant in the room: quitting your job. I get asked by a lot of people, “But what do you actually do with all that time?” And the answer is easy. You do whatever you want with it. If you can dream it, then there are no limits to what you can do. And if you can do it without money or time holding you back, then the entire better says Brian C Jensen. This article is for people who are seriously looking into doing what they really truly want with their life instead of putting in 60 hours a week at some job that pays well but leaves them unfulfilled at best.
A Quick Look Back At My Life and How I Got Here
- Before I go into all the reasons why you need to quit your job and how to get started, allow me to share with you a bit about my story so far…
- My name is Dylan Madden. I’ve been freelancing since around 2008 right after I graduated college because it was the only way to pay down $80,000 in student loan debt. After that was paid off, I turned my attention to making money online via entrepreneurship and wrote a weekly article on the topic on various popular blogs. I then started selling information products and coaching around that topic. All while doing this kind of work on the side of my day job, which was in digital marketing…
- I eventually built up enough income from running several side businesses to quit my job and go full-time freelance. And for about 8 months after quitting, I did very well… A lot better than at any time when I had a typical 9-5 office job. But then something changed…
- I had reached a point of diminishing returns with what could be done running just one business at a time (and there were more profitable projects out there worth pursuing). So I decided what would make more sense was to start a business in which I could do multiple projects and still capture the same income explains Brian C Jensen. It was something that had never been done before, and it took me 4 months of full-time work to bring it all together…
- But the results were fantastic. My “one business” turned into three separate profitable companies that were linked together through an internal information product network (and no employees). And my income quickly reached over $5 million per year, with some months topping $1 million. So I figured why not quit?
- So I did. With this company, there were only two of us doing all the work so we felt like we could handle it on our own… But we couldn’t.
- I reached a point where I was working about 100 hours per week between the three businesses (without even getting paid for all of them), and my business partner was also putting in a lot of time. So we started looking for people to hire, but the process would take months due to location and skill requirements…
- The other thing that happened while trying to build this company is that it became very obvious what actually made us money wasn’t this big secret product line we had been working on, rather it was just one little information product within it that required very little effort from us. In fact, the other products were costing us money because they were so expensive to create and promote…
- So after going back and forth with ideas for solving all these problems, we eventually decided to change the entire model and started an agency that does product creation and promotions for clients instead of having our own products…
- And this is when things really started to take off. We no longer had the barrier of time (and risk) involved in creating and launching something new, and we knew exactly what kind of promotional activities would work best for each type of product we created says Brian C Jensen. So our revenue quickly doubled from before (even though we took a decent pay cut). But there was still one problem…
- The business ran like a well-oiled machine… But I wasn’t happy. Like many people, I always thought success meant more money and less work. And it did mean that, but not in the way I expected…
- Because we had grown and were making more, we had higher overheads that needed to be covered. And we also decided we wanted to do something else that required hiring even more people (to handle all the extra work). So I was back to working 100 hours per week like before, without even thinking about how much time I spent sleeping or doing things for myself…
Conclusion:
So here I am today, not really sure what my life will look like going forward says Brian C Jensen. The company is still growing very fast which means its needs are growing as well. My partner and I recently started talking about taking our agency regional too so it could be even bigger than it already is… Which would mean moving somewhere far away from where we’ve lived for years?
