 All right, all right guys another complicated topic. Should you quit your job? I made a video about this a long time ago so I want to do a kind of like a refresher over here because it's a very difficult question to answer and it all determines on a big what if you know what if this what if that could have would have should have any who let's dive in all right so should you quit your job there's a couple things to take into consideration and the first thing is this when you're looking at a job for the most part in North America and I only speak about North America because I only have experience in North America with companies in the job markets yeah I've had businesses in China but that's a whole different story I'm talking about what I know okay other places are probably fucking different maybe they're not so take this with a grain of salt depending on where you are I'm speaking for North America for the most part a job in North America stands for just over broke most people are working in jobs they hate and that's a reality now the reason why they're in the job they hate is because of a paycheck now seem to leave has a saying there's the two of the most addictive substances on the planet is a heroin number two be a salary right obviously obviously so things to things to take into consideration if you are thinking of quitting your job the first thing to take into consideration is where the fuck are you going so seriously I made a video about this I'll put a link in the show notes and the video talks about making OKRs and KPIs for your life we have this in companies we plan out every quarter we know the quotas we want to hit we know the metrics we want to hit we know who's responsible for it we know how we're going to get there and then we monitor it from a week to a monthly and a quarterly basis there's a plan and if we fail on this plan then we ask ourselves why who went who who did what why didn't do this there has to be reasons for us not hitting the metrics that we wanted to hit most people don't do this for their own life so no wonder most people aren't getting what they want to get in life because they're not making fucking plans on where they want to go like you and I want to build a house we're not just gonna start building a house we need a fucking blueprint I need to have instructions on how to design what materials the cost etc etc and your life is no different your life is a startup I always say it's your name Inc you are a corporation and it's up to you to design and map out the future of your corporation so the first thing what you got to do is you got to map out where you want to go in your life everybody's different right if you have if you're a single person living in a bachelor pad with no kids that's completely different than your individual taking a salary that has two kids in a mortgage so the choices are different but both need to audit where they are both need to figure out so the first thing you need to do before you quit your job is audit where you want to go once you audit where you want to go then the second thing you're gonna ask yourself is the job that you're at usually jobs to me are means to an end and there's never an end the end is always a moving target however the job is a means to acquire something it can be money it can be skills I prefer skills money is renewable they fucking print money look at the Fed quantitative easing print print print print print print print non-stop skills and skills are difficult to attain especially with wisdom experience money cannot buy experience and wisdom nope nope nope it cannot and so you got to ask yourself does this job right now currently give me the opportunity to expand my skills and to and to elevate myself from a commodity I keep on mentioning the word commodity because when you are commodity a commodity worker you are easily replaceable because you offer nothing unique so what you need to do is evolve from a commodity worker to a linchpin worker somebody that is so important for the organization the only thing they can do for you is to give you a raise and to promote you but to get there you have to work hard you have to have skills and you have to be quite productive whatever career you have whatever skill set you're trying to go for so going back looking at the company they're in right now does this give you an opportunity to expand your skills write this list down can you do what you like to do and I'm not talking about running around naked I'm literally talking about does at least give you some options of taking extra courses or putting your or or they can put you in a position to grow a little bit more you know we talk about terms of like ceilings right does it give you a higher ceiling or lower ceiling that's the first thing second thing you gotta ask yourself is what type of company are you working for is it a company that has good morals good ethics do you love working with your coworkers like what is the environment because even if your first company even if it even if it checks your first check mark of skill acquisition and becoming a linchpin if you're going to your work every day miserable as fuck depressed as fuck and pulling your hair out of your head you're not going to gain skills you're not going to gain skills and it's no benefit both part it's no benefit for you being there it's not a benefit for the company so really be honest with yourself what type of company are you working for then number three which ties into my original point was what my original point that I was talking about is where are you going I'll give you the example let's say you're making 50k a year doing whatever and you want to then make 100k double jump okay how do you get there you know how do you actually jump from 50k to 100k there's a couple things to do number one you're getting paid 50k because that's what the market dynamics are calling for right now there's a reason why you can only charge 50k or yield 50k for your salary because you don't have the necessary skills or the political clout or the necessary the necessary projection within your organization that people view you as somebody that people view you as somebody to get things done and so if I was this individual in the 50k position I would do everything I can to increase my skillset I mean go above and beyond if I'm like let's say I don't know digital market or whatever maybe I want to just sit there for a paycheck I would go into everything Facebook Google SEO banner ads pay traffic you name and conversion rate optimization split testing yadda yadda I would become the I'll become so great that they can't ignore you and then I would they'd be proactive I would take responsibilities within a company I'll do things that was not asked of me and then I would be quite demanding I'd be like listen this is what I've done this is what I want to do this is what I'm capable of and then if they don't want to give you a raise fine fine there's other places out there and to even up the ante what you can do is like listen do side hustles right if you gain all this knowledge start doing stuff on the side but consulting building a portfolio creating small websites I'm just giving example digital marketing because that's kind of my background it could be anything it can be you know if you want to be a good accountant it can be if you want to be a designer it can be if you want to be a good salesperson you name it like you can build portfolios on the side there's nothing stopping you from doing that working with other companies even for free to build up your testimonials a Rolodex etc that builds up your intellectual capital in the workforce man you know you could go to listen there's a reason why fucking headhunters exist there's a reason why headhunters exist headhunters hunt the best talent like when companies and we do it all the time when we when we want to find a plus talent we don't go on job forms great people aren't sitting on their couch twiddling their fucking thumbs and looking for a job they're getting paid a shit ton of money because they're high producers one person can produce as much as four people and so headhunters go head hunting and to squeeze them out of the companies that aren't paying their dues or if they don't like their companies there's a whole reason for headhunters and so if you become so good in your company trust me headhunters will come for you so where do you go from here right you know I've talked about a couple of things I talked about does this job give you the option of improving your skills do you like working for your company have you created a plan have you audited your corridor and then so for any of your KPIs and OCRs the next thing you ask yourself is you have a couple of options right option a yeah you can quit your job but everyone's in a different position what's your overhead rent kids mortgage car cell phone well if you quit your job what are you gonna do then and yeah I can sit here and tell you oh go start a fucking startup I'm gonna be I'm gonna tell you firsthand you know how to fucking start up is how many times I failed how much money I burnt a lot a lot and so yeah you could have maybe six to eight months of runway however however I love this law this is Hofstetter's law it states if you think it's going to take three months times it by two and if you haven't read his book Girdel Escher Bach read that book it's a mind fuck I love it goes in the fractals science like geometry everything I try to touch it at least once a year it's not even a book man it's like it's hard to explain what it is in fact they have lectures online if you YouTube it's fantastic and so Hofstetter states if you think it's going to take three months it's going to take six months so let's say you do want to quit your job right now and you have a runway for six months of cash and you do have overhead how sure are you you're going to get back to neutral like really especially if you have all these other obligations and responsibilities that's that are for other human beings not your own and so what I like to do is like do things in parallel man like hustle at your job build up the skills that's nine to five five to 12 you got time or even like 9 p.m. till 11 p.m. do that you know two three hours after you if you are with your family you got time start building your side hustle then and only when your side hustle is at that level or close enough at that level then you say screw this but I've seen way too many people quit have a runway six months go to do a startup and they think their startup and fucking six months is gonna bring them back to the same salary they had before no fucking way man like that doesn't work that way money has to go back in the startup man I've rarely seen that rarely rarely when you want one time in my life I've seen that within six months or back at neutral as one once in my life I've seen that it's an oddity they're outliers and so that's it man like it's a complicated answer should you quit your job ideally you want to be working for yourself I believe the future is all going to be about piecework I think it's going to be gig work I think it's going to be contractors on contractor peer to peer slowly we're going that way but you got to build up your skill set you got to understand where you're going get understand the lifestyle that you want you got to understand your overhead and above all man above all my whole message ties into the message I've been telling you throughout my whole videos you have to be a linchpin you cannot be a commodity man you can't be a fucking joe blow schmuck you can't be a schmuck schmucks get fired schmucks are replaceable and there's a saying if you don't know the schmuck is in the room you are the schmuck that's it man become so good that they cannot ignore you all right guys if you have questions for me leave a comment below this video share this video let's get youtube algorithm going and also I wanted to give you a heads up I've challenged myself this is my personal challenge for my next quarter within my okr planning my objective my objective is to do one video every single day and I want you guys to keep me up to that so push me tell me what kind of videos you want to see and I'll talk to you guys soon peace