So I handed in my notice...

Einstein · 07-09-2005 8:58pm #1

Opened a small newsagent, and decided to hand in my notice from my IT job today to give the shop a good shot. 'Tis a bit scary actually! Been here for the last 3 years and I'm outta here in a couple weeks!!

Anyone else ever give up a job to take a risk?

Sparky · 07-09-2005 9:00pm

fair due to ya, taking that risk, id never think about doing it, but ya never know something could come up.

Mossy Monk · 07-09-2005 9:29pm

pair play and best of luck

murray sparkle · 07-09-2005 10:36pm

Hey Divers - nice move. I chucked in a somewhat safe job in January to run my own company. What spurred me on initially to set it up was the fact that I wanted some respect again and I wanted not to hate myself for doing what I was doing for a living. I worked 2 jobs ( my employer and my own company) for 5 months 5 days a week from 6.30am til 7/8pm, at one stage I took on a third job that started at 9.30pm and ran until 2.30am, but that lasted from November until the end of January. All the time I wanted to make the company work.

By the time that Christmas came last year and I was able to close the business for a week I just knew that having to give half my energy to an employer I despised was going to sink my own company. So at Xmas my wife and I decided that I would go out on a limb far earlier than planned and work for myself full time. I remember during the first week that I worked for myself it was so cold in the office that I was renting that I put my hands on the kettle and hit the switch to boil it just to warm up, but never did I feel that I had made the wrong decision. There have been countless revisions of the family budget, but we always got there in the end.

I remember when I handed in my notice I was so sure that I made the right decision that I didn't feel nervous and that freaked me more than being nervous about leaving my job with a wife and a 4 month old child.

I've been in business a year and a month and working at my own biz solely for 8 months and I have no regrets. Actually, my wife started work with me today. She will work with me about 3/4 hours a day and the business has been succesful enough to allow us to do that. As a result our child doesn't have to be with the minder as much, which is great for him.

This may all sound rosy but there were days when I felt like crying and I thought that I'd lose everything, but even on the worst day it was far more exhilirating than the best day with an employer.

Naturally there will be days when you feel like the world is falling down around you and there will be plenty of days when you feel like you need a day off and you can't have one, but the satisfaction of being able to make decisions yourself, and in an instant, is fantastic.

One final thing - one tip that someone gave me that worked was this - when it's going well work harder to capitalise on the good things and when it's going bad work harder to get the good things.

Best of luck.

Murray

crazymonkey · 07-09-2005 11:13pm

Fair play to both of you for starting out o n your own, someday i will do the same, good luck to you

Irish-trucker · 07-09-2005 11:43pm

Hey ,

Fair play Diver's ; it takes ball's to take such a risk , and people should be respected for this :cool: .
I Want to own my own Truck (s) when i'm older , and i always admire people for taking the chance (i'm 17) hoping that i'll have the ball's to do it if i'm ever given half a chance

!

shellby · 08-09-2005 8:40am

well done it's incredibly easy to get caught up in a job you don't like and get caught up in it - forgetting about your own aims because you need the money so fair play

i recently handed in my notice to a good company because i decided to go back to college the idea of being broke though doesn't bother me because i know it'll be worth it in the end

carbonkid · 08-09-2005 8:57am

shellby wrote:

i recently handed in my notice to a good company because i decided to go back to college the idea of being broke though doesn't bother me because i know it'll be worth it in the end

I decided i wanna start back to college next year but i just got a really good well paid job in the last week. The worst thing about going back to college has to be the lack of funds

But then again i dont wanna be caught up in the same old job so i think yea always worth taken that risk and doing something a little bit different!

shellby · 08-09-2005 9:09am

no point in having a "good"job if your miserable doin it

LegacyUser · 08-09-2005 10:00am

ye, but the huge salary makes it bareable

shellby wrote:

no point in having a "good"job if your miserable doin it

carbonkid · 08-09-2005 10:05am

shellby wrote:

no point in having a "good"job if your miserable doin it

Im not miserable in this job i just think i could do alot better. Man its nutz when you think about how we only have the one life and we devote some much of it to working for other ppl or companies, somebody elses dream

Firewalkwithme · 08-09-2005 10:11am

Divers wrote:

Opened a small newsagent, and decided to hand in my notice from my IT job today to give the shop a good shot. 'Tis a bit scary actually! Been here for the last 3 years and I'm outta here in a couple weeks!!

Anyone else ever give up a job to take a risk?

Fair play to you - I hope you do really well. It's something I've thought of doing and may well do in the future. Where's your shop? I might drop in for 20 B&H some day.

ciaran76 · 08-09-2005 10:27am

Fair play to you. Hope everythig goes perfect for you.

JungleBunny · 08-09-2005 10:33am

Very impressed!
Wish I had the guts to do that too sometimes.

Hope everything works out well for both you guys!
Congrats!

rabbitinlights · 08-09-2005 10:48am

Big respect man. I hope your happy and successful. Im saving to go travelling for a year or two, and when I get back Im gonna get a bussiness plan for a shop into action. I just cant work for other people, although I have learnt a huge amount about running shops and whats needed and what works and what doesnt.

Good luck.

S.

shellby · 08-09-2005 1:41pm

carbonkid wrote:

Im not miserable in this job i just think i could do alot better. Man its nutz when you think about how we only have the one life and we devote some much of it to working for other ppl or companies, somebody elses dream

i wasn't talking about you specifically i didn't mean to cause offense

Einstein · 08-09-2005 3:47pm

Hey everyone, thanks for the kind wishes...really nice to see the support

It's a small newsagent & Deli on the Swords Road in Whitehall...
Just a couple more weeks to work out in my 9-5 job, and I'll be my own boss!!

seamus · 08-09-2005 4:11pm

Divers wrote:

Hey everyone, thanks for the kind wishes...really nice to see the support
It's a small newsagent & Deli on the Swords Road in Whitehall...
Just a couple more weeks to work out in my 9-5 job, and I'll be my own boss!!

If I ever find myself in Whitehall I'll pop in and buy summat.

Best of luck!

nesf · 08-09-2005 4:18pm

Divers wrote:

Hey everyone, thanks for the kind wishes...really nice to see the support
It's a small newsagent & Deli on the Swords Road in Whitehall...
Just a couple more weeks to work out in my 9-5 job, and I'll be my own boss!!

Congrats and good luck

KTRIC · 08-09-2005 4:30pm

What's the name of your shop Divers ?, no harm in promoting it. I'm sure anyone local to you on Boards.ie will give you all their support in the coming months.

Einstein · 08-09-2005 4:38pm

K-TRIC wrote:

What's the name of your shop Divers ?, no harm in promoting it. I'm sure anyone local to you on Boards.ie will give you all their support in the coming months.

Thanks K-TRIC,
It's Matts Newsagent & Deli on the Swords Road, near whitehall church / the viscount Pub...Red sign gold letters, we even got a new Simpson's Squishee machine in yesterday

, man those things give serious Ice cream headaches!

Dave! · 08-09-2005 7:43pm

Ahh that's great, man

I'm sure it'll all go smoothly, you did the right thing, and I wish you every luck in the future! I'd like to start up my own small pub somewhere(probably not Ireland), in the future. Where'd you get the capital to start the shop? Did you have to save for a long time? Or get a loan? Or what? Thanks

TOPDAWG · 08-09-2005 10:27pm

carbonkid wrote:

Man its nutz when you think about how we only have the one life and we devote some much of it to working for other ppl or companies, somebody elses dream

thats actually SOOOOOO TRUE man!! never thought about it that way. ****.

Einstein · 09-09-2005 5:22pm

DaveMcG wrote:

Ahh that's great, man I'm sure it'll all go smoothly, you did the right thing, and I wish you every luck in the future! I'd like to start up my own small pub somewhere(probably not Ireland), in the future. Where'd you get the capital to start the shop? Did you have to save for a long time? Or get a loan? Or what? Thanks

Cheers Dave

Me and my mam actually got the capital from the bank. we didn't actually need a whole lot believe it or not...we're also set up now and have a hell of a lot of it left too...

So I handed in my notice...

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