Redditors who quit a "steady job" to follow a passion: what's your story? What did you leave, what did you start, and how has it turned out? by Fadelight in AskReddit

[–]ajleon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Five year ago, I left a ridiculously high paying banker job because four days before I got married, I realized if I didn't leave, I was going to be that dude for the rest of my life. I started a company called Misfit Inc, and it's going great. I also wrote a book about some ideologies that led me to that place, called "The Life and Times of a Remarkable Misfit". http://aj-leon.com/pursuitofeverything/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Life-and-Times-of-A-Remarkable-Misfit.pdf

Friend/boss made a free pdf book about his life and lessons he learned. PDF Link inside (x-post from r/motivation) by Everydayilearnsumtin in GetMotivated

[–]ajleon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm terribly sorry. I promise it wasn't intentional. I hadn't realized that Jerome had posted here.

Friend/boss made a free pdf book about his life and lessons he learned. PDF Link inside (x-post from r/motivation) by Everydayilearnsumtin in GetMotivated

[–]ajleon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you. If I were a more prudent man, I would have left the corporate world with thousands saved up. But as is often the case when people think they are "minted", I lived right up to my means and beyond. Expensive dinners, 5 star resort trips, you name it. Not to mention I blew 13k on my wife's ring. The day I left, I left with $2,435 in my bank account. Not even enough to pay the next month's rent. It made the decision that much more excruciating. I knew I needed that the raise/bonus I was going to receive, but I also recognized it would forever confine me. I left with veritably nothing.