Dotty Scott offers practical steps for leaving corporate work: clarify what you want to do next, get advice from coaches and peers, network and join relevant groups, learn as you go, and share ideas with others. The core message is to bet on yourself.
What other tips or suggestions do you have for someone who's deciding to leave their corporate job?
I would say make, make sure you really know what you want to do. Make sure that this is the right, the right path for you. If— talk to people, get advice, seek advice, talk to a coach, talk to somebody else, a friend of yours who might have ventured into entrepreneurship, because there's so much that I didn't know before I went out on my own, but I just knew that I needed to. And there's a lot of, what's the expression? You don't know what you don't know and learn it along the way and join networking groups, meet people. People love to give advice. People love to share the tips that they've, that, that they've experienced. Nobody needs to recreate the wheel. Network and share and brainstorm and mastermind. And if it's really something that you want to do, then go for it. And like I said before, you're bet on yourself. You're your own best bet.
