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Six Ways I Transformed My Career in a Year — And How You Can Too

God, I was so full of crap

Tim Denning
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6 min readMar 8, 2022

Me before I burned the suit. (Image supplied by author)

I wanted to quit my job the first day I got one.

Kissing the ass of leaders to get a job and keep it has never been something I’ve loved. It’s always felt so fake.

My career felt more like a Hollywood movie than reality. I could act better than Leo in Catch Me If You Can featuring Tom Hanks.

“Oh yes boss I can certainly do that for you by 5 PM. This customer is going to absolutely love us. You wait until you see the revenue in your monthly report. It’s going to be huge, I tell ya.”

God, I was so full of crap.

In the last 12 months my career has taken a 360. It’ll inspire yours. Here’s what I did to create the change.

Get comfortable not knowing

I quit my job in the middle of last year.

I know you don’t care or think that’s cool. Me neither. The point is when you quit and decide not to work a job again it scares the pants off you.

I was sweating bullets for days beforehand. What I learned to do is get comfortable not knowing the future. A job gives you a fairly predictable future. Working for yourself has a lot more risk.

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Tim Denning
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Love your point- you can always get another job.
It's okay to take some risks and work on your side hustles. Build things that matter. You can always go back to working for "the man" if you need to.

Grammar police here, think it’s “can too” but may be wrong 😅

Voices that said “why not you?”

This is so true!!!!! When I transitioned from hairstylist to a freelance writer (one who wanted to travel and leave Canada for good) I had to ask myself this over and over again. "Yes Iva you can do it. Why not you?"