6 steps on how to quit your sucky day job & become a full time [insert your dream job here]

It’s been over a decade since I traded my boring sucky, yet stable and well-paying, government job for my wildly fabulous and at most times unpredictable life in New York. From my mother’s unexpected death, to bouncing from Manhattan couch to Brooklyn couch for 8 months, I’ve got a ton of not-so glamorous stories to tell you. But… I have no regrets and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Me bored at my old 9-5

As spontaneous as my move may have seemed, when I think of it, I did a lot of things to prepare myself before uprooting my entire life (I brought my boyfriend, now husband, with me to New York). When I finally made the decision to quit my comfortable 9-5, I was pretty much over life. Like OVAH!

I had been at my job for over six years and had never been promoted yet I was the girl who trained all the newly hired managers to do jobs I was more than qualified for. I had just traveled from Baltimore to New York for yet another amazing opportunity but I felt like I was moving in circles. That was January 2012. By August 2012, I was officially moving to New York. How, you ask?

Well. There’s a certain set of behaviors it takes to do anything against the norm. Society will have you believing that in order to live a comfortable life you have to give up your soul, your sanity, and forfeit 65 years of your own life for someone else’s dream. I’m telling y’all, they are lying to us!

me after I interview Ciara

After blogging for five years (a decade ago, you do the math), I became a full-time content creator. But if you want this life, you’re going to have to work for it.

So. How did I get here?