Roger Nusbaum

I sold 10 one-to-one video calls last week. Around 30% of the calls I've done since starting a few years ago are nothing to do with health & fitness, but about 'escaping entrapment' - i.e. deleting things in life which create misery, most usually full-time employment. There is no virtue in living a miserable life, none. It harms you and harms your relationships. It makes you cynical and less happy for the success of others. If employment is making you miserable, you have to find another way to live. The idea you can start a 'side-hustle' and leave employment once enough money comes in, isn't realistic or achieveable for most people, despite what accounts on X assert. If you can, great - but most don't. Neither can a normal person necessarily start and succeed in business. Here's the thing - you CAN leave employment as long as you are prepared for your life to implode and get difficult. That won't necessarily happen, but it can. Once you understand that **living** through hardship and later on succeeding is nothing like as romantic as what you've read, you can deal with it. It's horrible, awful, but it's the consequence of a decision you have made, so bear it - don't cry or feel sorry for yourself. Ideally, you save enough money to keep you fed and paying the bills for a year. Ideally, you start a side-hustle which succeeds and you can leave your job. Ideally, you start a business and it succeeds. However, life isn't ideal, it CAN work, but it may not. So what you need is to face the reality of leaving employment - it can get messy, very messy. Again, your life may implode because you have no money. I don't recommend it if you are mentally weak. But eventually, if you are determined and have an ounce of wit, you'll find a way to live free from the entrapment of chronic employment - maybe getting a few scars along the way. It's your choice. You ALWAYS have the option to leave if you're prepared for the sh*t which COULD happen.