Joel Kim Booster

But I knew that I'd never dive headfirst, you know, if I just didn't take the plunge.

Yeah, I don't know.

I think it's a different journey for everybody.

It's not advice that I give to everybody immediately, no matter where they're at in their career, because I know that for me, security was a huge part of it.

Listen, I needed to have health insurance.

I needed to be able to pay off my student loans.

I was paying more in student loan payments than I was in rent the entirety of my post-graduation life.

I was paying thousands and thousands of dollars every month for student loans.

I didn't want to get behind.

I didn't want to fuck up my credit.

And so I needed a high paying job to do that.

And if I didn't have that, then I don't know exactly where I'd be right now.

At a certain point, like, I knew I couldn't.

And it's a different decision point for everybody.

But I just knew instinctually at a certain point that if I did not take the leap, then I would never take the risks necessary to get to where I am now.

I never gave myself a time frame like that.

I knew that everybody's trajectory is a different speed.

And so I never set a time frame for myself to make it, quote unquote.

Um, because I also just saw how circuitous everybody else's path was around me.

Like some people had been doing it for upwards of 10 years and still hadn't really broken.