I Quit My Job After 20+ Years. My Income Dropped 50%. Here’s the Truth.

My transition from full time job to self employment =================================== (1) Corporate job(s) - Year 2001 to 2025 (Software engineer to Delivery Manager) (2) Writing on the Internet - 2012 to present day Blogspot, Quora, LinkedIn. (3) First earning from the Internet - Year 2013-14 Few cents from Google Adsense (4) First major earning from the Internet - 2017-19 Quora monetized for asking questions :) (5) Major failures on Social Media Blogs 2012 to 2019 - No one read my stuff :) First YouTube channel 2017-18 - Disaster. Quora answers 2014 - 2019 - Moderate success. (6) Big decision - Career YouTube Channel in 2019-20 Started to write actively on LinkedIn - 2020 (7) Started one on one and group coaching program From the year 2020 onwards (Never looked back) (8) Real big decision - Career Break without pay 2 short breaks and 1 full year break - 2022 to 2024 (9) Quit full time job - 2025 When I quit I knew the financial implication. (10) What do I do today? - 2026 - One on one Career Coaching - Over 500+ - Group Coaching - 230+ folks in the gold program - LinkedIn Growth Training - 200+ folks - LinkedIn Ghost Writing - 15+ accounts managed - YouTube Videos - 890 done :) - LinkedIn posts - lost the count. ============== Our Stay Ahead with AI – Weekly Newsletter has now more than 700 Subscribers! We deliver... → 52 powerful issues. One every week. → Focused on helping you stay relevant, future-ready, and competitive. → So you don’t get replaced by AI… or by someone who knows how to use it better than you. 💡 Real-world use-cases | 🔧 Time-saving prompt templates | 🛠 Tools to keep you relevant 👉 All this for the price of a coffee and a pizza. Join here now → https://careertalk.mojo.page/ai-newsletter-by-anand-vaishampayan =================== Connect with me on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-vaishampayan-57b9aa3/ ============== Tools that I use: My Phone : https://amzn.to/3yRWzjG My Tripod : https://amzn.to/3r6d74W My mic