I quit my 9 to 5 job and first month is great.

The White Wolf · 24-12-2020 01:30PM

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Sounds like you have a house and mortgage paid off and savings on top of that. Count yourself lucky. Very few could do what you are doing.

That must be why I work with people who do nothing but complain yet won't do anything about it.

JimmyVik · 24-12-2020 01:31PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Anyone else do similar, with the company 8 years. I'm done with the rat race and never going back.

No more performance reviews, No more deadlines, No more pretending to like work colleagues, no more setting the alarm for 8am, no more been constantly tired, no more stuck in traffic(well I was working from home during covid), go to bed when I want, no more putting up with bull **** that I have zeroe interest in, no more pressure.

First month has been great and have enough savings to do me for five years but probably longer.

Now I have time to do what I like. I'm giving myself six months to see what the next step holds for me and decide what I want to do.

Might move to a cheap country for a while. Who knows.

Sold my car for 8k and bought a 1ltr for 800 euro. Will do me the finest.

Fyck you rat race office work never again.

We will see what happens.

Fair play.
Im doing it the minute covid is over.
How old are you?

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 01:32PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I too can post sh*te to the internet pcgamer :pac:

All you people believe this? Lol.

Whats hard to believe? No skin off my nose if you don't.

Inherited a house, no wife or kids.

I don't need a full time salary or a new car driveway. Have no loans either.

ElJeffe · 24-12-2020 01:32PM

Went part time in my mid 40's now two years later its the best decision I've ever made. I now have the time to run a small business from home and my weekly income is more or less the same.

I'll never go back to working 40hrs a week life is too short for that nonsense

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 01:34PM

Fighting Tao wrote: »

He must live in his mammy’s and daddy’s. Working 8 years and has enough savings for 5 years!

No working since 22 and 37 now. I've been with my current company 8 years.

And no, inherited a house.

Just not working bull **** jobs anymore where the best part of the day is taking a dump in a cubicle and looking at your phone.

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 01:39PM

youtu.be/SZEo1KFjTn4

Have a listen of this. Might encourage some people.

B.A._Baracus · 24-12-2020 01:46PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Whats hard to believe? No skin off my nose if you don't.

Inherited a house, no wife or kids.

I don't need a full time salary or a new car driveway. Have no loans either.

Yes but see I wasn't born yesterday.
And you only joined today.... Posting all this.

24-12-2020 01:57PM

Bang of crustie of thread TBF

Church on Tuesday · 24-12-2020 02:13PM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Set up a cult you could, call it the master race you should.

A cult figure he would be, powerful so he is.

Mister Vain · 24-12-2020 02:41PM

I did the same in early March but then covid fooked up my plans, so I'm kind of ambivalent about it. Glad to get away from all the stress and bulsh1t but my entrepreneurial endeavors had to be put on hold.

The Tetrarch · 24-12-2020 02:45PM

Stihl waters wrote: »

"Setting the alarm for 8" lol, you must have been wrecked you poor puddin

That's what I thought.
Fifteen years with the alarm going off at 06:00, and I was probably getting it easy compared to some.

24-12-2020 03:00PM

I'm sure, as other posters said, the whole thing is bit of a wind-up but I have to say I did do this myself and never looked back. Almost 15 years ago now, summer 2006.

Just to clarify though, my situation was a lot better than most people at the outset. I already owned an inherited property from my parents at that point, so all I had to clear was the regular household bills but no rent and no mortgage. That's an OK luxury to fall back on if things don't pan out for you, but good God I wouldn't be advising anyone else to do it.

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 03:01PM

paleoperson wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Typical response of people who are an employee of a company and too afraid or don't know how to make money on their own.

I would bet my house you are an employee?

Summer2020 · 24-12-2020 03:11PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Typical response of people who are an employee of a company and too afraid or don't know how to make money on their own.

I would bet my house you are an employee?

You inherited a house as you say. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be in this fortunate position. So stop making out like you’re some kind of financial genius who’s cleverer than the rest of us who are paying mortgages.

Wibbs · 24-12-2020 03:12PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Haha ,any grown up that has to set the alarm for 8 will be no loss to the workforce !

Or they just don't want to be part of the usual workforce? The majority of people go the safe route and go along with each other and that's good. That is a good thing. If that safe 9-5 route is offset by a life you find fulfilling inside and outside that environment and fair play if you find that. But it's not for everyone and many doing that 9-5 cubicle life fly through their lives interrupted by weekends and holidays and then wonder why time flies. It does if you only live maybe 100 days a year and the rest is on a treadmill making way more money for someone else.

Personally my idea of hell, or at least purgatory, is a 9-5 office job and thankfully I avoided it entirely. That's not for everyone either though.

Kraftwerk · 24-12-2020 03:12PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Typical response of people who are an employee of a company and too afraid or don't know how to make money on their own.

I would bet my house you are an employee?

Typical response of someone who doesn't know how to make money on their own?

Says the lad who inherited a house, just quit his 9-5 job, living off savings and needs 6 months to figure out what to do.

Squandering inheritance doesn't make you an entrepreneur.

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 03:19PM

Kraftwerk wrote: »

Typical response of someone who doesn't know how to make money on their own?

Says the lad who inherited a house, just quit his 9-5 job, living off savings and needs 6 months to figure out what to do.

Squandering inheritance doesn't make you an entrepreneur.

I'm intelligent enough to make it work. I will succeed where other people are too afraid to do it and not put the effort in. Some people live for approval from their managers and companies making money off them.

Not for me anymore, I've seen the light.

Squandering inheritance? The money i have saved is from the last 15 years of working.

Ubbquittious · 24-12-2020 03:23PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Or they just don't want to be part of the usual workforce? The majority of people go the safe route and go along with each other and that's good. That is a good thing. If that safe 9-5 route is offset by a life you find fulfilling inside and outside that environment and fair play if you find that. But it's not for everyone and many doing that 9-5 cubicle life fly through their lives interrupted by weekends and holidays and then wonder why time flies. It does if you only live maybe 100 days a year and the rest is on a treadmill making way more money for someone else.

Personally my idea of hell, or at least purgatory, is a 9-5 office job and thankfully I avoided it entirely. That's not for everyone either though.

I was doing 8 to 6 before I packed it in a few weeks ago. Not office though, that would be even more soul destroying. It was depressing during the summer to watch the best time of the year fly by stuck inside while all the tourists were out enjoying themselves. Couldnt even go for a pint in the evening

Kraftwerk · 24-12-2020 03:24PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

I'm intelligent enough to make it work. I will succeed where other people are too afraid to do it and not put the effort in..

What effort have you put in ? So far you said you've quit your job and are living off savings so you don't have to get up at 8am.

Maybe wait until you actually achieve something before telling all us worker drones on how dumb and lazy we are...

Viscount Aggro · 24-12-2020 03:26PM

To quit work for good, you need 25 times your annual living expenses.
The 4% rule.

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 03:30PM

Kraftwerk wrote: »

What effort have you put in ? So far you said you've quit your job and are living off inheritance so you don't have to get up at 8am.

Maybe wait until you actually achieve something before lecturing all us worker drones on how dumb and lazy we are...

I'm living off my savings, house was inheritance.

I will come back to this thread soon enough when I'm up and running with something.

I'm researching clothes warehouses at the moment and markup on clothes is 40% to 60%.

If I decide to go down this route, ill setup my own site, pay for marketing etc through facebook and adworda and get the site moved up through Google search etc.

I will succeed.

JimmyVik · 24-12-2020 03:31PM

Viscount Aggro wrote: »

To quit work for good, you need 25 times your annual living expenses.
The 4% rule.

Jesus 25 times my living expenses at the moment wouldnt amount to much

Antares35 · 24-12-2020 03:39PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Typical response of people who are an employee of a company and too afraid or don't know how to make money on their own.

I would bet my house you are an employee?

Would you be so quick to stake your own house if you'd actually had to work for it instead if having it handed to you? There's a lot to be said for the security of a salaried job. It doesn't make people cowards, it makes them smart. When you've kids to think about too, you can't just give the two fingers to convention and live off a finite savings.

I increased my gross salary by almost fifty percent when I left my last job and started my current one. I get a pension, health insurance, free education and paid time off at 90percent salary for almost the first year of my baby's life.

Yeah, real scared I am, that's why I stay.

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 03:40PM

Antares35 wrote: »

Would you be so quick to stake your own house if you'd actually had to work for it instead if having it handed to you? There's a lot to be said for the security of a salaried job. It doesn't make people cowards, it makes them smart. When you've kids to think about too, you can't just give the two fingers to convention and live off a finite savings.

I increased my gross salary by almost fifty percent when I left my last job and started my current one. I get a pension, health insurance, free education and paid time off at 90percent salary for almost the first year of my baby's life.

Yeah, real scared I am, that's why I stay.

Thats great for you been someone else's slacky.

I left a job with flexi time and 35 days paid holidays with health insurance, pension and annual bonus.

JimmyVik · 24-12-2020 03:42PM

Antares35 wrote: »

Would you be so quick to stake your own house if you'd actually had to work for it instead if having it handed to you? There's a lot to be said for the security of a salaried job. It doesn't make people cowards, it makes them smart. When you've kids to think about too, you can't just give the two fingers to convention and live off a finite savings.

I increased my gross salary by almost fifty percent when I left my last job and started my current one. I get a pension, health insurance, free education and paid time off at 90percent salary for almost the first year of my baby's life.

Yeah, real scared I am, that's why I stay.

Depends what you want to do really.

I increased mine by about 50% each time i moved job too. That allowed me to put a lot away. I do have responsibilities, but what ive put away hopefully will allow me to take a couple of years at least off.
If it goes well i might never return to work.
God I hate work. Actually its the 9-5 and working for someone else I hate. Dont mind a bit of work on the farm at all.

Antares35 · 24-12-2020 03:42PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Thats great for you been someone else's slacks.

I left a job with flexi time and 35 days paid holidays with health insurance and annual bonus.

Someone else's slacks? I don't even know what that means. Sounds like you just have a chip on your shoulder about any kind of employment tbh. Are you sure you aren't a disgruntled fired employee?

Antares35 · 24-12-2020 03:44PM

JimmyVik wrote: »

Depends what you want to do really.

I increased mine by about 50% each time i moved job too. That allowed me to put a lot away. I do have responsibilities, but what ive put away hopefully will allow me to take a couple of years at least off.
If it goes well i might never return to work.
God I hate work. Actually its the 9-5 and working for someone else I hate. Dont mind a bit of work on the farm at all.

Suppose it depends on your employer too. I hated my last one.. current one couldn't be more different.. perfect work life balance too. And, my dad was self employed all his life and I've seen how difficult it can be. There was very little help for SE in those days. Different strokes I guess, just hate this shítting on everyone else who is employed that OP seems to think is acceptable.

Pcgamer · 24-12-2020 03:44PM

Antares35 wrote: »

Someone else's slacks? I don't even know what that means. Sounds like you just have a chip on your shoulder about any kind of employment tbh. Are you sure you aren't a disgruntled fired employee?

Nope, left on my accord for freedom and not waste my life with bull****.

Antares35 · 24-12-2020 03:45PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

Nope, left on my accord for freedom and not waste my life with bull****.

Ok, I believe you

Kraftwerk · 24-12-2020 03:51PM

Pcgamer wrote: »

and not waste my life with bull****.

So you chose to waste all our lives with bull**** instead.

I quit my 9 to 5 job and first month is great.

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