Corporate Quitter #12

Hey y’all,

It’s Gabby from Corporate Quitter 👋

It's my 3-year Quitterversary... and I truly have no idea how I've managed to survive this whole time.

I’ve 'moved' 6 times across 4 different states, often overstaying my welcome with family, boyfriends, and loved ones to keep my overhead down.

I’ve bled every resource I started with, and continue to get my hands on, to keep the lights on.

I’ve tested dozens of ideas, dumping thousands in the exploration phase, only to hit a dead end and turn back around for the zillionth time.

I can proudly say that I’ve replaced my corporate income AND hit a major milestone with my first $10k/month in December (though making that AND it be recurring is another conversation…)

BUT THE RIDE AIN’T OVER

I’m still testing out ideas.

I still don’t 100% know what my vision is.

And I’m still deciding who I want to become (which I know is a huge privilege considering our jobs and society shove down our throats every damn day who we SHOULD and NEED to be in order to survive).

I think teenage Gabby would be disappointed in me.

For not being serious enough.

For giving up my great career on Wall Street (especially considering I was a teacher).

For choosing to be on a path that only has prestige once you’ve really, really made it.

But my 10-year-old self would be in awe.

She’d love that I no longer use an alarm clock or spend half my day commuting in a tin box (the subway).

She’d love that I wear tons of colorful clothing and fun makeup, and that my self-expression is growing instead of contracting (typical in adulthood).

But more than anything, she’d love that somehow, someway, I’ve built a life where the exact things she did for fun have now become my job (writing, speaking, painting, organizing, performing, and being a little sassy lol)

If I’ve made it to year 3 as a quitter, something most don’t as 1 in 5 businesses fail within the first year, I know it can only get better from here.

I have plenty of ideas of what I might create or become this year, but truthfully I don't know.

And that's okay (for me at least).

Cheers to another being a crazy creative!

Questions I’ve been asking lately that might help:

1️⃣ If you removed the pressure of time, would you still be able to experience and create everything you wanted for yourself in this lifetime?

2️⃣ If you let yourself do things more slowly and prioritized rest when your body asked for it, do you really think you would miss opportunities that were meant for you?

3️⃣ Are you actually doing things that lead to progress and fulfillment, or are you creating busyness to feel productive enough to validate your existence?

4️⃣ If you reframed your losses and pain into a plot point that makes your life, which is a movie, more exciting and triumphant, would you forgive yourself for it happening in the first place?

5️⃣ Are you actually ‘unfocused’ or ‘unproductive’ because you’re '“doing a million things,” or are you just making art and living inside your work?

Thanks for reading!

Gabby 🤘

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