I QUIT My 6-Figure Corporate Career After Learning 3 Money Lessons

Is quitting always a sign of failure? I've quit so many jobs in my career but this last one is the biggest yet. Find out why I quit and what I've learned from years of quitting my job!

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I QUIT My 6-Figure Corporate Career After Learning 3 Money Lessons

[tirabassi_]

Great video, I'm from Brazil and all the lessons you brought to us are so real, especially the part you talk about, your career is not a sprint

[zachcodes]

Glad to see some new content! Great vid very relatable. I think the best move of my dev career so far was leaving my first job after 6 months. About to hit my 1 year mark at my current job next month.

[mszuriki]

I loved this video! I just quit my new job after a few weeks and wanted to do a YT video on it. I was looking for examples and came across yours. I appreciated your reminder to take things slow. I'm constantly thinking about how to get promoted. But my current job reminded me of how I need to take my time and there's no reason to rush. Thanks for the video!

[kayo]

Thank you for this. This has soothed my anxiety

[santo]

Loved this cause’ it so relatable and real 📚💯🔥

[josephnour]

Thank you so much I'm 19 years old. Start searching for a career and you gave me a lot of priorities to put in front of me to make a decision.

[genochurch]

Tony—I discovered you from a search about Frenchies. I really enjoyed your honesty in this video. Your story speaks to me and stings me at the same time. I'm a classic case of what you mentioned can happen. Worked for over twenty years at the same agency. I had several promotions rising to the top level outside of share ownership. I started feeling less secure (last five years of my employment) and similar to you these feelings started affecting my personal relationships. I then just started dancing trying to survive—it wasn't until an ownership change I had a much-needed kick in the ass to leave. I hope people take your wise words to heart.

[GeneralNva]

Thanks for sharing this. I've been a Software developer for a year now since I've graduated from college. This only further validates my option for me to quit my current job because of the bad working conditions that only hinder my growth and happiness.

[iolss]

I can relate to a lot of things you said, I've been too much time in my current company from a developer's perspective (3.5 years), in the beginning I learned a lot, but I have been stagnated for some time, I was also "pushed" a team leader position but I'm not adapted and I think still isn't the time, I both don't enjoy and I want to be a mid/senior for more time and keep my skills sharp as a software engineer. I'm studying web development now (a lot of years as a database developer), I'm enjoying and I hope to get a new job in this area in the next couple of months. Hope the recruiters simple don't discard my experience as a developer as a whole (some do, unfortunately).
But I'm looking forward :)

[PrincessSakuno]

Seriously meaningful video, and seriously appreciate it Tony!
i'm in my quarterlife crisis due to a job loss and i'm looking down avenues which I want to take for a career transition.
I've worked out that I'm interested in working in tech, so this is how i've stumbled upon your video.
Your thoughts on taking time to 'smell the roses' and how your career is a marathon and not a sprint, and how continuously just striving to get to the top of the ladder won't fulfill you really hit something in me.
It reflected my experience at my last job where the environment was really toxic but everyone who started there was just staying due to the fact it was at a major bank where I live and it would help them get further job opportunities down the road.
I didn't like being there either but I thought too that if I stick with it maybe it could help me end up somewhere good.

Not worth it, they treated us like pigs and even though I was paid a good starting salary, it was not worth the stress and toxicity. I met a friend yesterday who works as a 3D artist and although he gets paid less than me, there's actual work life balance at this job! He can work from home and actually go to the toilet when he needs to, and he gets some satisfaction doing something he is passionate about.

Sometimes, it really makes me wonder, what made us so capitalistic and so reliant on money. Rhetorical question of course, but these perspectives really help reframe things.

[tommyabernathy]

I was in IT for roughly 24 years (both as a developer and in IT management). It will absolutely eat you alive.

[gabrielfono]

I remember two years ago
When I first watched your video and I didn’t even know I will be a software engineer one day.
I started teaching myself frontend while working as cabin cleaner supervisor.
I recently got my first job as backend developer focused on Java, sprint boot and aws s3 and been working for 5 months now .
I feel like I am on the last on team.
Everyone solved on easily but me I have to take few hours after work and weekend to accomplish things.
I feel like competing my people.
I am really tired and my back hurts.
Thanks for making this video
I gotta thing about how to reorganize things

[ranadip]

Sometimes you quit and sometimes you get laid off 😂

[DreamCatcher]

Working 2 years in this job and saving up most of the money would be enough to live worry free for the rest of your life!

[weho_brian]

if you think about it, if you work 80 hours a week and make 200K a year, your real salary is 100K. Just something all new tech engineers should consider

[JimmyJaxJellyStax]

7 days a week is the same reason I'm also moving on - life doesn't take a break 7 days a week, but what we can choose to do in life really should enrich our true self, meaning, purpose - no matter how extreme. In the most extreme survival scenarios with zero comfort, the primary goals are perhaps immediately obvious - yet ironically in a comfortable scenario, we run the unhealthy risk of losing focus of life goals and thus an inevitable depression or burnout if this goes on too long (e.g. at-least a year or so, quite fast!!). I think of stress as a spectrum of positive and negative - the alignment needs positive stress like learning something we believe in, exercising sustainably very often, eating at-least the nutrients we really need, usually sleeping properly, a selective social circle that's usually supportive by compatibility. These basics are fundamental and a job that threats many of them in complacency or worse toxicity is interfering with our life legacy. Being dramatic is more of an acute response to a temporary situation, blowing it out of proportion - but there are inevitably long-term responses to what we do, think, feel, consume - a subconscious gut feeling that will be brutally honest about how compatible our current situation is with our deeper aspirations for life - the performance inevitably requires some adjustments for a masterful outcome. I think this is where people can end up feeling hopeless or lost - that fire is dim and requires simply many changes and new explorations to reignite, yet also deeper sense of learning thy self in journaling, exercise, meditating - "back to basics" is a good rule of thumb if things have gotten really blurry. Few steps of proper habits each morning - every morning.

[AsianVideoGamer]

I've hopped jobs 7 times so far in 15yrs, some companies easier to quit than others, but I gave them all the same 2 weeks notice regardless of that company's policy. That start up going public would've killed you with the crazy amount of work required

[listenu]

why would a company want employees to leave after 6 months or 1 year? I dont know why they let this happen.

[titojuice]

Is it possible to become a staff engineer or engineering manager without a degree but only bootcamp?

[steezli]

The whole down-leveling practice in interviews really doesn't feel good at all. Companies can just throw the book at you technically and stump you. I can confidently say that I can probably stump most people with an interview question