Liberating, if a little scary

[richard]

Very best of luck to you. I've been on the verge of telling my employers (the government) where they can shove their job but at my age and with my lack of experience I'd probably never work again. It's driving me insane working for a government that despises the people who elected it.

[Brow]

I did the same thing myself just before Christmas last year.

My badly paid, lowly Admin job was 1 step away from putting me in the nuthouse and nearly cost me my 10yr relationship and my house with my girlfriend so I took a pitiful redundancy payout and left on Christmas eve.

I managed to find a job and started again by the 23rd of January so luckilly I wasn't out of work too long.

All the best for the future mate.

[Andrew W]

Best of luck and I salute you for taking that decision. I've only ever walked away from a job with nothing planned once and it was the best decision I made that year. I found until I was free I couldn't think clearly about what I wanted to do next and once I was away from work things became clearer much more quickly. All the best!

[frankus]

I got out of IT four years ago for the sake of my sanity. Didn't want to end up back here.

Reckon I was on my way there. A couple of 1-1's ago with my manager, when discussing courses he suggested I might want to go on an anger management course...

I've been on anger management training - I volunteered ... what became very apparent very quickly was that getting me angry is the easiest way to get me to do stuff - so I'd waste time suppressing anger or I'd over-react and feel guilt - pretty much anyone I'd ever spent time with had learnt to exploit that. I'd really recommend exploring it - see where that rabbit hole goes ;)

I also work in IT and frankly it's naff, I've got a family to support so I keep at the treadmill.

[PhilKing]

Hi John,  I hope it all works out for you.  I know you've been thinking about this for a bit.

[BlankPlank]

Also been thinking about this. Isn't it funny how everyone wants out of IT? Good luck mate.

[MDV]

Been there done that. In all seriousness, if you have to, you have to. Just make sure your arse is covered in terms of fallback plan/s

[JJretroTONEGOD]

 You have made a wise choice from leaving, I used to work in office work also and found it soul destroying.

[jpfamps]

Good luck.

[Modular1]

Good luck mate. I'm thinking of doing the same.

[juansolo]

The good news is that I'm getting loads of pedals done at the moment.

Bad news is that at some point I will have to get another job and it's likely going to be in IT again.

[Twinfan]

Darn it  :(

[juansolo]

To be honest, everything I enjoy about building pedals would vanish if I tried to make it a cost effective living. Shame really.

Essentially to make money out of it you need to take a popular circuit, say a Klone and modify it ever so slightly so you're not treading on copyright. Then get the boards made by the Chinese, your boxes screen printed somewhere and assemble big batches of the buggers here (assembled by hand in England...). Then you can slap your own bootweak name of choice on the front, wrap it in flowery BS regarding all the R&D you've done to come up with this new revolutionary stomp that'll make people jizz their pants when they hear it, slap a huge price tag on it and away you go. It would mean ignoring all your morals, but there are plenty of examples of this going on right now.

Likewise doing anything related to motorsport. Even if you own and run a top finishing team, you ain't going to make much out of it. Even then, you'll probably ruin it for yourself also.

The sad reality is that I can make a lot more money sat on my arse wasting my life away in front of a VDU. It could be much worse I suppose. But when I've eaten through a reasonable amount of my savings, I suspect that's the conclusion I'll inevitably come to.

Still, ain't going to let that spoil my time off.