As an anti-thesis for my last post about not quitting your day job, this one’s about the process of quitting your job the moment you think you earn enough from blogging. Thing is, while there are people who are too anxious into earning enough from blogging to be able to quit their job, there are those who DO earn enough but don’t quit from their jobs anyway due to fear of failure. In fact, even those who’ve been wanting to quit their jobs from the start might not quit when the chance comes due to the same fear.

It’s true the net world is quite volatile. What’s in today may not be “in” tomorrow. Your blog goes down for a few hours, next time you look, you’re way, way down in the SERPs. A bit of technical difficulty could mean a percentage of your revenue per month. It’s hard quitting your job knowing about all these. And yet, working full time and blogging starts getting to you. You feel exhausted at the end of the day. Not only do you work a full eight hours on your day job, by the time you get home, you work eight more hours on your blog. After a while, you realize you don’t spend time with your family anymore. You miss ball games and piano recitals, anniversaries and birthday parties.

If your blog starts becoming successful, you might be faced with a decision to be made: quit your job or quit blogging. If you choose not to quit your job, you could still blog if you want to. However, to be able to allot time for the other things in your life, you got to create balance. I’ll be the first to tell you, it is possible to have a full-time day job and a full-time blogging career at the same time. But unless you’re a fabulous time organizer who never comes across real life problems and emergencies, you’d have a tough time squeezing in some quality family time in there too.

When you find yourself pressured enough that you start to think maybe you’ve been earning enough to quit your day job, you know you have something to think about. While during the past, you’re only thinking of earning enough in the future, the future might be now, at this very moment. Quitting your job would be a tough decision. It took me 3 full months to think about it. A full-time job is something solid. Something you’d know would earn you a fixed amount per month. Relying on blog income is a big risk since you’ll never know when revenues plummet.

Think about it a million times before deciding to quit. And when you’ve decided, think about it again. If possible, wait until you’ve been earning a consistent revenue amount per month for a few months or even for a year before completely quitting. When you do decide to quit, however, stick to your decision. If you’ve thought about it carefully and you’ve studied your blog’s revenue schedule intensively, quitting your job means you fully understand how it is to earn from blogging and how to make the most of it. And doing so, it is possible that you’ll actually do great problogging full-time.

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