I Quit My $300,000 Banking Job After Learning 3 Things

I'm about to give up. I'm also leaving out a six-figure bonus. A six-figure sign that they'll pay me to Beau in March. I just sent you to my manager. I'm shaking. I just sent a message to my manager. to chat this morning, so let's see how it goes. I've spent the last nine years moving up the corporate ladder, getting a promotion, taking on more responsibilities, asking for a salary. Promotions, negotiating bigger bonuses and then at the beginning of this year I decided to leave. I decided to leave the investment. Banking forever and to date was the hardest decision I've ever had to make and making it just two months before receiving what would have been the biggest bonus of my career probably makes it look like I'd lost my mind to anyone on the outside.

The truth is that not even I knew if I was making the right decision or if everything I thought would turn out well, but what I didn't know was that if I didn't take the opportunity I would live to regret it. Obama famously said: You don't have to be 100% sure to make a decision, gather all the ideas, gather all the information, gather all the perspectives to get 21%, and once you get to that point, make the decision and find peace in the fact that your choice. was based on the information you had at the time, I hope that by sharing with you what got me to 51% it gives you the courage to do the same during the 9 years I spent in

banking

, there were a handful of people who I really I enjoyed working with them and one of those people was a woman who worked on the same team as me.

She had been doing the job for almost 20 years. She loved what she did and she took on this mental role with me. She told me how. When

things

were over, he sat down with me after work to answer my questions, told me all the information about office politics, and then about 7 months after I joined the bank, one night at the office, his phone picked up. He picked up, hung up the phone and walked away from his desk and as soon as he left, my manager called me into another room, told me they had just been promoted and then I explained the details of my new position.

I told him that it sounded very similar to his role and that "We're covering the exact same clients now, so what's the difference?" He clarified that she was in HR and had been laid off at a time when she should have been celebrating. I just got promoted. I found myself in a situation that was completely opposite. And it changed my entire perspective on professional life. in this particular case yeah great I was on the lucky side but next year the tables could turn and who will be they say I won't be on the other side they say you're only as good as the hours you can put in when you work for someone else. and the amount you earn is directly tied to your time, but the problem is that even your time is not under your control and I realize that I will never be able to truly be independent and financially free as long as I let someone else have more control over my life financial than I did during the first years of working in a company.

They were fun, they were intellectually stimulating, I was

learning

a lot, I felt like I was in this real growth phase and after that, it seemed to Plateau that

things

were no longer exciting, I didn't feel challenged and misaligned and that feeling of misalignment continued. growing up and it really started to take a toll on my mental health so I decided to sign up for therapy sessions and on my second session my therapist told me I needed a life coach and I remember thinking what the hell how can I do? Even doing this, what is the life coach going to do?

Let me try to figure this out on my own, so I went home and spent the next few days alone. I didn't do anything else, but I really understood why I felt so bad. in a way why I felt misaligned with what I wanted to get out of life and why I felt at that time really caged and during those days I realized that I had absolutely no interest in helping CEOs of large companies or working on billion-dollar transactions and the only reason I did it was, firstly, salary and secondly, social status. I hate to admit it, but I'd be lying if I said that didn't play a big role.

I was living life solely based on society's expectations. I thought I should be grateful for having a somewhat prestigious job and earning a good salary because that's what most people want, but it's not what I wanted. My reason is to inspire and motivate people to take control of their finances and ultimately their lives by sharing my knowledge of money and my perspective on money that's what success meant and means to me that's what I do through my YouTube channel through my courses through my free workshops and what I can tell you now is when you are clear about what you want and what you want to do and you live and breathe there and you become so obsessed with doing that that nothing else matters, while that six-figure bonus that I'll talk more about in a second was incredibly difficult to give up.

It had reached a point. where no amount of extra money could stop me from living my why from the outside, every person I spoke to told me I should reconsider what I'm about to do and every person told me to stay a while. more time so they can at least pay me that bonus, but at this point my broader meaning took over. Yes, I could go back and compromise and get that bonus, but that would be an excuse to stay another year and another year and keep going. getting paid to live someone else's Vision instead of working on my own when it comes to major life decisions, everyone will offer their opinions usually with the best of intentions and based on their own experience, but if you can find time for loneliness and introspection, you can stop allowing other people's opinions to dictate your decisions, that's when things really start to click, maybe your meaning and purpose are within your daily work and you don't believe in the common notion of that everyone should

quit

or you may feel the exact opposite, regardless, just do it.

I'm sure that decision is yours and not driven by society as many people on social media follow your why it's enough to

quit

your job, but if you've seen my other videos you know very well that I have never endorsed that idea right now. platform I have expressed frustration toward anything or anyone that promotes the notion of quitting your job to simply follow your why, implying that hard work alone will fix everything and solve everything else. It takes a specific type of person to take on that level of risk and stuff. person is not me and that is precisely why the two main factors that I mentioned above were not enough to tip the scale because let's be honest there are bills there are mortgage or rent payments there are responsibilities that's just a part of life and that's why I couldn't leave before I did.

I stayed at the bank longer than I wanted to because my salary was paying me to build an emergency fund. I was paying off all my investments. My actions and participations. Property. I was paying for everything. the experiments I was doing behind the scenes on my side and yes, I took a big pay cut at the time I resigned, it was an 84% pay cut, but I was also in a very fortunate position that I had enough emergency fund. to last me 9 months in case something didn't work out and it was only when my side hustles equaled my fixed costs plus an extra 200 or 300 a month that I felt comfortable taking that risk.

I'm 30, we don't have any. My kids and I knew that A: I will be much happier doing something I really love and at the same time give back in some way and B I will still be able to make money from it in a way that is not tied to changing my time like having an impact on others. people and getting paid while doing it, it doesn't get any better than that, the reason this video makes me smile is because it was as happy as I had been in a long time, I finally felt aligned and like myself.

I was getting paid to do something I loved, which I didn't know while filming that I will be in the position I am in now and what I earn is astronomically higher than what I used to earn in

banking

. I just did what I loved, I pushed myself out of my comfort zone, I became so obsessed with my broader meaning that I didn't have time to think about what anyone else thought, I took the risk and hoped the other 49% would play out somehow. . At the end of the day, this is my journey, this is the path I have decided to take and the things I did to get there, it may not be the right path for everyone, but I hope that sharing some of this gives you the inspiration and courage to do what you've been doing for so long