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This Is The Hardest Decision I’ve Ever Made

Name: This Is The Hardest Decision I’ve Ever Made
Uploaded: 2024-11-20T02:30:11+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this personal narrative, the speaker recounts the experience of leaving a consulting role in space cyber intelligence for the military—a position they…

20 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this personal narrative, the speaker recounts the experience of leaving a consulting role in space cyber intelligence for the military—a position they describe as more glamorous than it felt. The decision to quit proved to be the most difficult choice they have ever made, taking six months of deliberation. The speaker highlights several contributing factors, chiefly the internal conflict between the desire for future entrepreneurship and the immediate reality of personal hardships: no romantic relationship, no children, and living alone. They emphasize that if the decision feels overwhelmingly hard now, it will not become easier later, underscoring the emotional weight and uncertainty surrounding the career transition.

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Me quitting my job was still the hardest decision that I've made, still to this day. You quit your job? Mm-hmm. I was a consultant. I did space cyber intelligence for the military. Oh, shit. Sounds fancier than it was. Quitting that job was the hardest, single hardest decision I had to make, and it took me 6 months. There's a number of things that did it, but the biggest one was people say it, they're like, you know, I'm doing this and this, and then someday I'd like to own a business on my own. Like, that's— it's like this thing they tack on the end of whatever it is. And I was like, if it's this hard right now when I have no girlfriend no kids, I live on my own independently. I was like, it will never get easier. And I was like, and this is fucking hard right now.