For the past three weeks I had been so skeptical whether or not to quit my day job. I had been tired of being a corporate slave for two years now. Waking up early to do this and that, having a deadline to finish a specific project, being scolded in front of your work mates because you deserved it (hehehe), cannot attend an event that you really want because you have work to do and you can’t control your time, doing some work-related stuff even if you didn’t know how to do it and the like.


I’m a total noob when I started my first job two years ago. I didn’t even know HTML. I learned all I had to learn from this company without training and I’m so happy because I learned a lot by myself. I had a decent income and was satisfied of it. I did a lot of projects off line (intranet applications, etc.) and online and my boss (and my boss’ boss) was happy of the outcome. I started blogging a few months after I was employed from the said company. After a year, I was equipped with skills to earn money from blogging. I learned SEO, SEM, PPC Systems, CPM Ads, freelance web development and design, reviewing products and services and more money making methods that was a lot easier rather than going everyday to the office (that was a few blocks away from my boarding house) and doing my day job.

I was absent without leave for 21 days already (as of writing this post) and still can’t decide whether to quit my job or not. My company wants to talk with me personally and our HR sent me an SMS and told me to inform them if I made my final decision to resign or not. I still had a lot of pending tasks to finish and I really didn’t want to leave it as pending but I was too damn tired and lazy to finish it. I’m also wasting the company’s resources because most of the time I’m doing nothing rather than finishing my chores. I have projects that was suppose to be done for a day only, but it took me a week to finish that specific project.

I’m now earning more than my average daily salary as a normal employee. If my math was right, I’m now earning online seven times the minimum salary in Metro Manila plus the COLA (cost of living allowance) multiplied by seven and added to the product of my online earnings in Google Adsense only. I’m also making money in other online advertising and money making systems such as Adbrite, Kontera, Widgetbucks, TLA, BlogBank, ReviewMe, PPP, Smorty, Sponsored Reviews, etc. and I had clients here and abroad for web development, web design, and SEO. But this was just a passive income and there’s no assurance that it can sustain my daily finances in the near future.

Those are some of the things that enticed me to quit my day job. But still, I was skeptical as in very skeptical because of the following consequences:

1. I’m not financially secured. What if suddenly my online money making methods crash into havoc?
2. Passive income is not active, because it’s passive. I know you know what I mean.
3. My SSS, HDMF, PhilHealth, and ITR stuff will be inactive or should I say stagnant? I don’t know what’s the exact terminology to use. I assume you know what I mean.
4. I will not receive a year-end bonus and a 13th-month pay.
5. My company benefits will vanish… Forever…
6. I will not be approved in such programs that requires a certificate of employment. (I hope you know what I mean.)
7. I’m officially unemployed and my resume’s employment history was.. ahmmm? I don’t know what to say.
8. __________________. Just fill in the blanks if you want to add some more.

Those are some of the factors that stops me in doing what I have to do.

But, quitting your day job had a lot of advantages. As what I had mentioned above, here are the pros of quitting your day job/night job/being a corporate slave.

1. You’ll earn more than the usual employees do, If you know what to do and you know what you are doing. Believe it or not, you can earn more than the Pinoy nurses were earning abroad. I have a freelancer friend who was earning $10,000.00 monthly and could possibly earn more by just blogging. I know there are a lot of Pinoys out there who earns more than 10k dollars per month. I still don’t know who were they.
2. You will have lots of free time. You completely have freedom to lead your way. You have overall control of your time. You can sleep whatever time you want. You can wake up whatever time you want. You can control your own schedule because you’re the boss of your own work. You are now the CEO of your own blog (Your own company).
3. You don’t have to pay taxes. *Evil Grin*. But you have to, but you can evade tax. Haha! But that is evil, so you should pay your taxes, just don’t declare what you are really earning like most of the bloggers do. (I think most of the freelancers don’t pay their taxes. I have yet to find out).
4. You will be happy.
5. You will be very happy.
6. You are the happiest of all the happy people in the world.
7. If you know more benefits of being a freelancer, feel free to leave a comment below and I’ll add it on my list with a back link to your web address! Yay!

That’s all for now. Forgive me once again for my usual grammatical errors because I didn’t proof read what I wrote and I knew I made a lot of mistakes. Hehehe.

Tags: Adbrite, BlogBank, Corporate Slavery, Employee, Employment, Google Adsense, Job, Kontera, ReviewMe, Web Developer, Wigetbucks

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