My New Home – Newport Beach
The past month has been a busy one for me. I’ve dropped a few hints here and there but I just quit my job and I’m moving with my fiancée to Orange County so that she can pursue her medical degree. She’ll start school at the beginning of August and I’m going to take a couple months off to focus on my online entrepreneurial activities before going back to work.
I gave my employer notice that I’ll be leaving about a month ago and so far it seems like there are some great opportunities in the Orange County area. It should be a big change for both of us but we’re very excited for it. As you know, my job was getting a little stagnant and this move comes at the perfect time.
My Plan
Since I started working right out of college, I haven’t taken more than a week off in four years. I’m pretty excited to have a couple months off but don’t think I’m going to be just sitting there watching TV all day. I’ve already lined up two freelancing gigs and I’ll be doing a ton of work on this site to improve the content and quality. I’ve even got an outline for an e-book that I plan on writing so stay tuned. Here’s what you can expect from me in the upcoming months:
- Obviously this blog will be a top priority so you can continue to expect 2-3 high quality articles per week.
- If you’d like to read more of my writing, I’m now writing for RentPrep and The College Investor.
- I also started collaborating with a friend on a personal finance site and so far we’re off to a good start.
So there you have it. Ultimately, I plan on returning back to my day job, but I want to give my online endeavors full priority for a couple months and see how it goes. I still feel that I’m highly overpaid at my day job so I don’t want to give that up until my online income is a little bit more diversified and consistent. I get paid a lot at my day job to sit at my desk and work on a computer for 8 hours a day. I do the same type of work for my blog, but for much less, so until the numbers even out I’ll continue to do both.
Readers, ever thought about taking the plunge and quitting your day job? I don’t recommend it for everyone but sometimes the lack of security will force you to work harder in order to survive.
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Good luck with the big move Harry. I am sure that the new things will be very welcome. I think running in the online space will be a nice change from the day job.
Definitely, I hope I don’t get tired of the online thing if I’m doing it more hours of the day, only time will tell.
Congrats on the move and the new site! Enjoy your big holiday, so much time off is awesome.
Yea I haven’t had that much time off in forever. Even in college, I worked during the summers.
I hope the move goes great. Enjoy your time off 🙂
Thanks Michelle, still packing haha.
Exciting stuff! You won’t regret the two months of trying.
Good luck!
Sam
Thanks Sam, wasn’t able to get laid off but I also only had 4 years at the company haha and I was young and cheap.
Good luck Harry! I’m curious to see how your transition pans out!
Me too, we’ll see how long before I start missing work.
Sheesh, you are well overdue for a break! Enjoy this time and good luck with the move.
Thanks, I like to think I’m due for a break too. I’ve worked hard the past four years!
Best wishes on the move and hope you enjoy the break, Harry! Newport Beach is a beautiful place. 🙂
Thanks Anna, yea I’m going from one beautiful place to another 🙂
So jealous of an opportunity to try something new! My goal is to get to a good place financially so I can do the same thing.
Yea I don’t think I’d be quite so excited if I was just switching to a different company, but since I’m going from one field to a whole different one, I’m pretty excited.
I’m very excited for you Harry. When your fiance starts med school, it will definitely be amazing but also intense. I remember having to put in huge amounts of effort during that first semester with all household duties just so that my husband could get started on the right foot. It sounds like you two will make a great team! I’m excited to see how you like working from home. 🙂
Thanks Cat, you’ll be like my shrink if I need any help or comfort 🙂 I’m definitely gonna be stay at home dad’ing it for her for the first couple months so should be fun.
Good luck with the move and career moves, Harry!
Thank you, definitely ready to get started!
Congrats on the move! You’ll never regret trying something new. Hope it goes well for you.
Yea I’m glad I get at least a couple months to give the online thing a full time go and see what I can do. I might suck at it, I might be great, hopefully the latter. 🙂
Congratulations! Moving isn’t fun but everything else sounds really exciting!
Yea it’s definitely not the funnest thing, but it’s exciting moving out of one place and into a new one. The grass is always greener on the other side 🙂
Good luck man! Moving cities sure is quite an adventure.
Thanks, definitely excited and we’re all moved in now. So far so good.