Six Weeks Ago I Handed in My Notice to Go Freelance.
In the midst of a pandemic, I wonder if I made the right choice.
I had been waiting for this day for months. I had made the decision to leave my stable 9-to-5 job and venture out on my own. I’d built up the courage to hand in my notice to my unsuspecting boss. I showed up for work every day for weeks in that awkward halfway-out-the-door transition period.
The hard part was over. So why was I second-guessing my decision to leave now?
When the long-awaited time came to log off my work laptop (and, underwhelmingly, put it in the corner of my bedroom until it was safe to drop it back to the office) I had all these questions milling around my head:
Is it a bad time to leave?
Is my business doomed to fail before I even get started?
Am I going to get any clients now that the economy is down?
Is leaving my job a selfish move when millions are losing their jobs?
Could I have predicted this?
While I don’t know the answers to most of these questions, I do know the answer to the last one: no. I don’t think any of us could have predicted the state of the world right now.
