I’m Quitting my Job

And Medium is going to help me do that

I wake up at 5 am.

Get ready and head out the door.

Drive for 30 minutes to a construction site.

There I spend between 5–9 hours cutting and constructing stone walls.

I work as a Stone Mason.

After a long day in the heat, I return home and have dinner.

Then I sit at my laptop, listen to classical music and write.

And I’m planning to quit my job soon.

My job is alright.

It has many benefits:

Looking from the outside in, everything seems fine.

But there are a few important reasons why I will quit soon.

Autonomy: Do you like people telling you what to do, and when to do it? No? Welcome to the club.
Challenge: Life-long learning is essential for me. Working a job, which doesn’t offer new challenges will eventually become boring.
Income Cap: Let’s be real. There is only a certain amount of money your boss will ever pay you. To rise above this ceiling one has to start their own business. This could for example be done by writing on Medium.
Time: Life is too short to spend a third of it somewhere you don’t want to be.

These are the main reasons why I’m going to quit my job soon.

(Sorry, Boss. Nothing personal.)

Medium is going to help me do that!

You might think that the revenue earned through Medium is what is going to get me there.

Not quite.

Medium’s Partner Program is great, but it’s quite limited.

You are unlikely to earn more than $10,000/month through the Partner Program.

But Medium has other benefits:

Medium is an earning and learning platform and perfect to connect.