6 Months Ago I Left My Job at Google / My Honest Thoughts on Self Employment
I built Postwrite to help myself post on all my socials easily and quickly without getting sucked into consuming content. It’s helped me create content and continue to grow my audiences without the stress and I think it can do the same for you.
6 Months ago I left my software engineering job at Google to pursue my dream of working for myself. Recently, I posted this on X as a joke that many people obviously believed. Since leaving Google, here’s a few things I’ve learned about self-employment.
The first thing working for myself has solidified is that the scariest part is taking the leap. The most difficult part about self-employment so far has been making the decision to quit. Oftentimes, things are “scarier” in your imagination than in reality. Since quitting, trying ventures and taking action is what has helped give me clarify in what I should be pursuing, not sitting and thinking about what could happen.
Working for myself has also forced me to continuously reevaluate priorities and always start my day thinking about the highest leverage activities that I can do. What I love about this is that no day looks exactly the same. Compared to working in big tech each day tended to simply pick up where the last day left off. Being self-employed also lets me immediately see the effects of my actions and be rewarded for them. In corporate jobs, doing something well might get you promoted in a year whereas doing something positive for me and my businesses in the morning can land money in my bank account the same afternoon.
Going out on my own has also taught me that I’m only competing against myself. The only reason why this won’t work out long term is if I am not able to do enough of the things that I know are helpful for business. This helps give me an abundance mindset and reminds me that accomplishing the goals I’ve set is solely up to me. I’m only competing against myself. Working in 9-5 jobs showed me more of a scarcity mindset. There’s only so many slots to get promoted, not everyone at the company can reach specific levels, and co-workers inherently feel compared to one another.
I can’t be happier that I finally decided to leave my job and I don’t plan on going back to one any time soon if I can help it.
Where you can find me online:
Drop a like ❤️ and comment below if you made it to the end of the article.