Comments on: Dream to Reality: How I Quit My Day Job

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:53:21 +0000

I love your answer with the question: what do you do? – I spend fulltime pursuing my passions. I want to say those words too. I recently came across a video that discusses why and how we can do what we love and be happy by earning much from it. http://marieforleo.com/2012/01/safe-job-or-do-what-i-love/

By: Mia

Mia — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:47:01 +0000

Hi Tina!

This post is very inspiring. That’s how I feel right now. I’m not happy with what I am doing here in the office but I’m scared to leave because it pays the bills. I told my husband that I will quit my job when he already got the job he wanted. I felt that he is the only way I could leave my job but what the truth is it should start from myself and not with anyone else. I hope I have the courage like you do.. I’m not rich I dont have enough savings that is why Im stock in my job. Im not saying my job is bad it’s very nice actually with lots of benefits and high salary but deep in my heart there is something I really want to do.. I love working with my hands..I hope someday I will find it. Thank you for post! Good luck and more power.

By: Sal

Sal — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:53:46 +0000

I allowed my bf to pursue his passions after leaving his part-time gig and now I’m the one paying all the bills and I don’t hate my job, it pays really well but we moved farther away and the commute is truly killing me while I’m also finding that I’d like to leave and pursue other passions of my own. But I feel stuck with mortgage/bills as he isn’t bringing in anything. Can we both realistically live our true lives and pursue passions when there are bills that need to be paid and we’re living on one salary? He’s comfy because I have it all under control but how do I get to my happy place without having him go back to a conventional job where he’ll make a decent amount of money? That would make him fall into a pit of depression and I don’t want that.

By: Katlego

Katlego — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:08:11 +0000

Hi everybody, I left my engineering job in December 2010. I am done with being an Engineer. I worked for what many may consider a great company to work for. I must say, not earning a salary every month is not easy, however, doing something that you enjoy day-in day-out is best.
I usually tell people that I was broke and miserable then, but now I’m rather broke and happier :-). I have no regrets, i knew it was never gonna be smooth sailing

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:24:35 +0000

This post is so inspiring to me, Tina. As a 23 year-old college grad and recently unemployed, I’m finding a lot of pressure to get back into the “real world.” You know – get a 9-5 (even if it means selling my soul in a sales position), work for the weekends, be realistic.

I don’t see what’s so realistic about working a job I hate. Thanks to blogs like yours, I’m able to see this time off as a major blessing. I’m following my passion, started a blog, and joined a local Toastmasters group (which I see you’ve done too!)…Thanks for the inspiration!

By: Tracy Antonioli

Tracy Antonioli — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:58:52 +0000

I love this post–and this site. I happened upon it looking for somewhere to go for what I’m calling an ‘un-working’ trip–a trip I’ll be taking during the first few weeks of my year off from work. I’m hoping it will turn into a ‘lifetime off from work’, as I’m also pursuing things I love to do and hoping something will surface. I’ll take any suggestions of un-work trip locations!

By: Shea

Shea — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:44:58 +0000

I have read and re-read this article so many times.

I have been planning and saving for a year now to quit my day job as an emergency 911 dispatcher to pursue my passion for music. I have been drumming 14 years and I am finally going to move to the big city to make this happen.

I’ve graduated college already but I am part of the younger culture that works smarter not harder. I don’t want to become old and tired and worn out long before I have had a chance to travel and do what I love.

I will not give up and nor should any of you! Good luck, although luck has nothing to do with it =)

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By: Katlego

Katlego — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:54:13 +0000

Hi everyone,

Your posts are encouraging in a world that’s full of “hecklers” as Simone puts it. I quit my job in December (and got a final pay of R0.00 after working a full month with many leave days that were not taken) and am still alive and much much much happier, I doing things that I love. I blog and joined an estate agency to do something I love i.e. see all sorts of houses. I am loving it, but as can be expected when working for someone, there comes a time when they have to spoil the fun by the things they say… such is life. Anyways, I dont get a salary, I get a commission only BUT I wake up whenever I want to, sleep whenever I want to, see all sorts of people, leave work whenever I want to, see houses, and am ok with being broke and happy.

This morning I went to view a house that this other old woman intends to sell because she has gone sick after many (15 -20) years of making millions for a company (and reaching management positions) that gave her a 15 year long-service certificate… and a few trophies. The company couldn’t give a care in the world about how she was or what she was going through. It was plain sad.

I once read somewhere (probably one of Tina’s posts) “Leap, and the net will appear”… That’s very true and works for me.

To happiness