So, you're thinking of quitting your job. And I'm going to show you in this video a
step-by-step way that you can go from just being dissatisfied to actually
quitting your job. And I'll tell you kind of my story of how I went about quitting
my job number of years ago. So, quitting my job was one of the best decisions I
ever made. I quit my job in 2012. I worked for a marketing agency and I was making
about $6,000 a month at the time which was... It's not a lot
of money in LA. I was living paycheck to paycheck and I was just completely
dissatisfied with my work. There was no way I could move up the ladder and you
know, my boss was you know never present. And when he was, he yelled at me. And none
of my co-workers were people I would even hang out with in real life and I
felt trapped. You know, I had an hour drive each way to work. And it's just...
There's no way to describe it other than feeling trapped and quitting my job. I
ended up actually working for myself and being an entrepreneur was one of the
best decisions of my life. And in this video, I'm going to go over the 5 steps
that I took and that I would encourage you to take when quitting your job,
whether you're going on to another job that pays you better or whether you're
going on to you know be self-employed. I'm going to address both of those
scenarios in number four here. At the end I'll tell you a little bit about what I
did after my job and you know what I do currently to make my full time income
working from home. So, just a little warning here is the first step is
something you probably won't want to do but this is actually I would say the
most important. And that step is working really hard. Be the best freaking darn
employee you can possibly be. Don't let your bosses have any reason to
fire you. In fact, if you're doing sales or marketing, hit all your goals. Hit all
your quotas. If you're doing support or whatever, hit all your numbers and
surpass them. Be early to work, be late to leave. Do everything that would make you
an all-star standout employee. Now, you might be thinking I'm crazy but there's
a reason for this and it's because it gives you big L-word. --Leverage.
Okay? You want to quit on your terms and you don't want to burn bridges because
you may need those bridges in the future. But quit on your terms and you will not
only make more money but you'll have more options available to you. Now, the
second step is do research. Now, when I say research, I mean you know,
research of other jobs you can get in your area or research into side hustles
that you can do to add to your income or even replace it. Now, the best way of
doing research is talking to all of the customers. And again, if you are working
really hard, you should be forming relationships with
the customers. You should be or your clients or whoever you're interacting
with in your business. You should be amiable, you should build rapport. Don't
just go to work and just try to pass the day. Really work hard but building those
relationships with those clients, really focus on the ones who are making the
most money. If you work at a bank, start talking to the biggest clients. The ones
that have the biggest bank accounts and say, "Oh, sir. You know, if you don't mind me
asking, what do you do for a living?" Or if you work at a car wash, ask somebody who
comes in with a nice car. Say, "Oh, sir. You know, if you don't mind me asking,
you know, what do you do for a living? You have a Mercedes Benz. That's pretty nice."
Or whatever that is. If you're in a poor area, maybe the people in your area you
don't have Ferraris or Lamborghinis but whatever is relatively nice. Start asking
questions. Figure out what people are doing turn good money in your area. What
the biggest business owners are doing? What the biggest people with the most
amount of money are doing if you work in customer service, for AT&T or if you
repair houses or do electrical work. Talk with your clients. Be friendly and do
research because the more questions you ask or remember, ask a lot of questions.
"How do you do it? How do would one get into your industry?" Those are good
questions. I would write those down. I'm just going to repeat them again. "If you
don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living? How does one get into your
industry? You know, how how did you get into that business?" Ask
those questions and you'll start getting people to open up about what they do
because the natural next thing is if they have job positions available and if
they like you, if you're doing your job again. Working really hard and being
amiable, they may even offer you a position and you can get job offers from
that. Simply by being friendly and asking questions and showing you are a
motivated person. Now, this next step is going to require you cutting back some
stuff. And again, I never said quitting your job is easy but it is important. And
if you hate your boss, if you hate your work, you're going tO do this really hard
and the cutbacks are going to be really severe. Save every single penny
you can. Save that money, okay? Cut back. Live with your parents. Live with your
girlfriend. Live with your boyfriend. Get a cheaper car. Do whatever you can to
save money. Don't eat out. Prepare your meals that you bring to work each day.
Whatever you need to do, save as much money as you can because quitting your
job can be a very scary thing and you probably need... You need at least I'd say
a month or 2 or preferably 3 months of whatever your basic needs are
to quit your job, okay? My barometer for quitting your job would be 3 months
savings. Now, just a quick note. I didn't quit when I had 3 months of savings
left. You know, I was living paycheck to paycheck at my job but I was earning an
income on the side. So, I didn't necessarily do follow that advice. But do
whatever you feel best with. Again, this is your life and the time to quit your
job generally you only get a narrow window when you hit all of these
requirements. I'm going to go over the next one which is really important just right
now. So, if you're like me, I was quitting my job to work for myself. I never wanted
to work for a boss again and I started doing
side hustles, okay? So, number 4 is side hustles. And if you're looking to work
for another company, that's fine. You know, you're going to need a job offer before you
quit your current company. But either way, if you're doing side hustles... Side
hustles are a great way to save money whether that means driving for Lyft or
driving for Uber or doing TaskRabbit or many of the other ways you can earn
money online. Side hustles are great which brings me to this. Is this is a
great time to just... If you're looking for extra ways to earn money, slam that
subscribe button. Hit that notification bell and give this video a big thumbs up
if you're learning something here because it's a scary process. But I
actually go over on the rest of my channel a lot of ways that you can earn
money online from doing side hustles working from your home in your spare
time. So, if you want to check out more ways to earn money online, check out my
channel and subscribe and I'll be showing you many different methods that
you can earn a side income. If you actually want to work for yourself and
have your side hustle be your main source of income, what I would recommend
is that you actually wait until your side hustle replaces your income from
your job, okay? In my case, I was making $6,000 a month from my job
working for an ad agency in LA. Now, I waited until I was earning my monthly
income on the side before I quit my job. So, I was making 6,000 from my job
and I was making a little over $6,000 from my side hustle
before I quit. Now, if you want to be really conservative, you can actually do
the same number where you can say you can wait until you've replaced your
income for 3 months, okay? If you've been able to replace your income for
3 months and you have 3 months of savings, that would be what I consider
the most conservative approach to quitting your job. Now, in my case, I
didn't care. I just wanted out. So, I waited the second I was able to replace
my income with my side hustle, I quit. And the way I replaced my income was I got
some of my own clients to do advertising for on the
side. I was out at hotels and I was out at conferences pitching my own clients
to work directly for me. So, congratulations. This last step is the
best and it was my favorite one. And that's quitting. So, quitting is the best
and especially if you've taken these steps to quitting your job where you
you've saved up 3 months of your expenses and you've been able to replace...
Either replace your income or get a job offer because you were doing the
research and you're making friends with wealthier people that you interact with.
Then you'll be in a good position to quit your job. Now, I don't recommend just
going in and saying, "I quit!" You know, something like that what you see in the
movies. I actually recommend you never burn those bridges. I recommend you give
30 days notice, okay? And if you're really taking notes or something. Write this
down. 30 days notice. Give him a month notice and work hard every single day.
Again, never let yourself be known as a lazy worker. Never let yourself be known
as somebody with attitude. Never let yourself be known in the workplace as
somebody who shows up late or doesn't put their full step forward because that
doesn't serve you and that doesn't help you in your career
or in anything in any area of life. Work really hard and give a month's notice.
Because remember, your employer. Probably has to do a lot of work to replace you.
And even if they don't it just shows courtesy. Give them 30 days until you
move on to your next job. And if you have another job offer, let them know that
you're giving your boss 30 days notice because you want to be courteous and
help them transition you out because you are an important employee. And if you do
that, your next boss will probably be amazed at the fact that you are such a
upright loyal employee and they will have a great deal of respect for you
the fact that you're doing that. And that's what I did. I gave 30 days notice.
You know, there's more you can do. You can just... Don't... Don't tell your boss. Don't
give him all the details. Don't tell them why you're quitting. You know, say you're
moving on. You don't need to tell them where you're moving on to. Whether you
are moving on to a side hustle or whether you're moving on to... You know,
work for another company. They don't need to know. They don't need to know, okay?
Don't give him all the information. Don't give him attitude. Don't let them know.
All those things that you want to tell your boss. "You're an a-hole or you
suck or you're a hypocrite." They don't need to know any of that. All they need
to know is you're giving them 30 days notice. You're going to be at work on time
every single day and do your job for the rest of the month and be the best
possible employee but you don't need to tell them where you're going.
That'll freak them out. But the balls in your court. And frankly, you're moving on
to bigger and better things. So congratulations. If this helps you, if
this gives you confidence in any way... Or if you're going to quit your job, just write
down in the comments below. Say, "I quit." Okay? I quit. And I'd love to see who here
is... This is helping because if this helps you just type in, "I quit." Because I really
hope to help as many people quit their jobs as possible and work for themselves
as I have. Now, a little bit about what I do for a living is I advertise products
online. I advertise other people's products online and I earn a commission.
For instance, this book I'm reading by Neal Stephenson. I can... You know, Amazon
will pay me to advertise this book online and they will give me up to 10
percent Commission's. So, every time I recommend this book to someone and they
click my link and buy it, I'll earn $2. 10% of $20. But I do this on a massive
scale for a number of companies that I have what are called affiliate
agreements with. And basically, I sit back and you know collect commissions and I
put up posts or ads on Google, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Now, if you want to
learn more about what I do for a living, you can subscribe to my channel and
check out some of my other videos that I've uploaded where I discuss
I've been able build my business to you know, we're on track for 7
million dollars this year and I have zero employees. There's a lot of
opportunity in my space and I encourage you to just watch other videos on my
channel or subscribe for one of my training courses to learn how to do what
I do. I hope I helped you out though and I encourage you to take these steps and
quit your job. Congratulations.