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Why I quit my job and work as a freelancer and part-time researcher
Recently, I quit my job in a high-demanding and profitable company based in Silicon Valley and it’s always hard to step away from a group of people that gave you so many great memories, people you worked hard with day in and day out.
In medium-sized companies, you tend not to work only on the position you applied for but you give help to your colleagues, and take additional responsibility like management, talking to the client, organizing meetings, etc. Essentially, as much as you can withstand. At first, that didn’t sound that bad, but when I looked back, at how I improved over the last year if that brought me closer to my dream, or could I be more productive in a different way I figured out it’s the latter.
Through the time I spent in the company, I met extraordinary people that worked all over the world and shared their experiences with me. Once I bundled all of the facts and valuable lessons I knew I needed a change. I needed to try something new, get an experience in another company, another culture with people of different colors. Being stuck somewhere and don’t get out of your comfort zone is too unsatisfying to me.
I prefer to research and do proofs-of-concept instead of maintaining, integrating, and adapting. Not that the work was not challenging enough for me, but to…
