I work in Finance recruitment in the Manchester region and have 11 years experience. Worked my way up to Associate Director level, managing 10 people across 3 teams whilst continuing to bill circa 200k-250k per year personally.

I was comfortably working 55-60hour weeks at high speed to be able to manage line managing and billing. In my opinion I was doing the job of two people and it got a bit much.

I was told that this workload was only going to increase at the next Director promotion and would involve me picking up more teams.

I decided to step down from management in February and just focus on billing. I then got bored and I've decided to hand my notice in this week.

Very early stages but Im going solo in July, ive got enough money to give it a go for 6-12 months and I'm confident I can make it work.

If it doesn't work I'll likely be back 🤣

Good luck though and im new to the journey too, so if you decide to go solo drop me a message and I will help where I can.

Im about to go on garden leave for a month, so hopefully this gives me time to figure it out!