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Sean:
A lot of people ask me this question, actually. Sean, when’s the time to jump ship? Sean, when’s the time for me to quit my day job and just do my passion full time? So I want to know the story behind it for you.
Brenden:
For sure. The short answer to that is if you’re asking the question, don’t jump ship. That’s easy. If you’re wondering whether I should jump ship, should I, should I not? The answer is always no. You’ll know when it’s time to jump ship. So there’s two parts, then, and I’ll explain my own story. Some people say burn all the bridges. Some people say do it on the side. My advice is simple, people who are already burning bridges and going all in don’t need this conversation and don’t need my advice. Let’s focus on the people who are too scared to take action. I’m a huge believer in side hustles because the difference between entrepreneurship and having a job is, a job brings you security. A job gives you a set number of hours. A job gives you a set income stream, but entrepreneurs there’s no set income stream, but in the same caveat, there’s a lot more upside than being an employee.
My advice is always simple. Work your side hustle until it becomes a full-time hustle. I always say it like this. If you can’t work on your business part time, you can’t work on it full time, unless you’re a burned the ships kind of person, which is not a very huge percentage of the population I would say. For me, it was very simple. I wanted to be an employee my whole life. I had no intention of being an entrepreneur. I wasn’t one of those kids who started in a lemonade stands that wasn’t me. I was 12.
I wanted to be a corporate accountant, got an internship at Price Waterhouse Coopers. I worked really hard, even if I thought it was a water bottling company. For those who don’t know, it’s a big accounting firm in the world. Then after I went on to be a technology consultant, so I got a great job at IBM and all I wanted to do was be a senior level executive. Those executives in Canada, in the U S make $500,000 a year. That’s more than most entrepreneurs in the world cause most entrepreneurs aren’t really successful and I didn’t want to do any of this master talk stuff. But the difference was after I graduated.
After I got the job, I started working. I just asked myself the simple question, Sean, that many of us will ask ourselves when we start to make money for our families, which is, “is this all I’m going to do with my life?” And for me, the answer was no. Was I just going to work as a partner and then die? Yeah, I’ll make a lot of money, but not too much else.
That’s when the idea for the YouTube channel came to be, because I realized a lot of the communication information was pretty bad on YouTube. No one was sharing free videos with people to learn and grow with their communication skills.
I started making videos in my basement. No intention of quitting my job. But then it started picking up. People started watching the videos and here we are today.