Your Day Job Is an Asset, Not a Burden

You don’t need to quit, you just need to learn how to leverage

Jason Gutierrez
The Water Cooler

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Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

In January 2016, at 26 and making $130,000 per year, I quit my job.

You might think, “Ok, surely this dumbass at least had something lined up.”

But nope, I didn’t.

I bet my future solely on my ambitions to become a blogger and hit it big. I had zero experience running a business and working for myself. Unsurprisingly, I failed miserably.

Where I went wrong

I used to look at my 9 to 5 as a burden — an impedance to accomplishing my goal of making money online.

“Imagine what I could do with an extra 40 hours a week.”

But that was just a lie that I told myself. I didn’t need to unburden my life from my day job, I just needed to learn how to leverage it.

I learned that lesson the hard way (by losing tens of thousands of $$ in lost income and savings). You can learn the easy way by not quitting your job and instead understanding why it’s such a huge asset:

It grants life’s most precious commodity — time.

You aren’t constantly pressured to make money. You have time to think clearly and…

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Jason Gutierrez
The Water Cooler

Engineer. Papa. I share short essays and stories on careers, life, and the creative process 🖊: https://parttimewriting.beehiiv.com/subscribe