Joel Kim Booster

And some people had been doing it for two and broke really strong, you know, really quickly.

And so I, I knew there was no set model or template for myself.

And so I, I just, I needed to get to a

than I was in the job.

And once that was happening, you know, pretty consistently, I felt comfortable enough to leave.

Other people are in different financial situations than I was.

You know, some people were being supported by their families in part, some people were being supported by their families in full.

And so could make, you know, different judgments, had a very different calculus towards how they approached their day jobs and supporting themselves financially than I did because

I was living in New York.

I was paying, you know, twelve hundred dollars, fifteen hundred dollars at some point.

I had seven roommates.

It was not like a great situation for me.

Yeah, that's when I moved to New York.

I had seven roommates for the first year and a half.

Yeah.

I mean, it was a duplex.

So it was two stories.

But everybody I mean, it was still pretty not ideal for sure.

I mean –

There wasn't a lot of access to different avenues in the suburbs of Chicago where I grew up.