Chris Duffy

And then as soon as I did, I remember so clearly, like truly the week after I left the job where I was like, I'm no longer employed by the school anymore.

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I no longer felt in any way like I had jumped off a cliff.

And instead, I had this clear, like alternate metaphor that I had turned a corner where it was like, oh, I could go back.

And we are back.

For me personally, when I left my job as a teacher and when I was leaving the fifth grade classroom and I was going to start trying to make a living in comedy and radio and podcasting and all of that, it felt so much before I did it like I was about to jump off a cliff.

It's like I turned and I could go back.

I just couldn't see where I was going.

And so because of that, it felt like this dramatic leap.

And I think sometimes we make a career decision that is a true like you've jumped off a cliff.

But a lot of times it's not so true.

Like, I'm going to make this giant leap.

The story we tell ourselves that like.

I'm going to leave college.

You could never go back to the job that you left or the field that you left.

A really stable, predictable, reliable job.

You know, like if you are a lawyer and you've gone to law school and you have your credentials and then you quit to become a novelist, it's not like you can't get another job as a lawyer later on.

And I'm going to do something that is very uncertain where I have no idea if I'll be able to make enough money.

I have certainly no idea if I'll be able to continue this career for five or 10 years.