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Since I didn't know how to manage my money, though, I didn't know how to get there.Īs the years went on, I became more familiar with burnout than I did what I actually wanted to do with my career and where I wanted it to go. I didn't have many goals besides that I wanted enough money to support my life. In much of the beginning of my career in tech, I was going with the flow. In total, I made over $200,000, a long way from that first $30,000 a year job in 2012. Through freelance writing work, design projects, my blog, brand deals, and the digital products I sell on Etsy and my blog, I brought in an additional $60,000 in 2021. I was only making about $40,000, but I bumped it up through job hopping to $60,000 within two years.Īfter experiencing back-to-back layoffs, I pivoted into government contracting and then fintech, while increasing it to $141,500 in another four years and being able to work from wherever I am. I was fortunate to find freelance coding work after that and went on to work in retail I.T. Not enough people talk about work trauma and how that affects your ability to negotiate for higher pay throughout the rest of your career, advocate for yourself, build income outside your job, and build up your financial life around you. Thinking back to how exhausted I was when I left that job, I'm a little resentful. On top of that, I fell into the trap of working 80 hour weeks for a start-up, which wrecked my mental health and burned me out to the point that I didn't want to come into work.
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