What jobs did you leave or are planning to leave in order to become a maker?

I leave my job software engineering. Start a fund and also build some projects

I lost my full stack developer job due to pandemic. It's been 5 months since I decided to work on self projects only and I have no plan to go back to the job anytime soon.

I was working for +2 decades as a service provider for marketing & advertising with my own company, but there's no difference to an employee when you deliver nothing else than human brainpower to others. I prefer building something that generates an added value based on automated processes and algorithms. But it took me many years to come up with the right idea, now it's there.

I was working as a Business Analyst and then Product Manager for past 4 years. I enjoyed it and fell in love with how tech products are created, the fun of working with a team and then seeing something getting developed and then getting used by users is just thrilling for me. I left my job last year and started working on my own product. I would in fact say it was the love for new products created from this job that made me quit it.

I'm curious what it takes to quit being an archaeologist.

I used work in mid-management in a retail bank. Left it after a few months of working. Unlike most other people I enjoyed banking and accounting. I just wanted to a bit more free time to pursue a good passive income project and learn from people who are doing business and startups on a day to day basis.

I left a senior management position in a well established marketing company in order to pursue my startup 8 years ago. The startup I was running made enough revenue to support my salary and my wife's salary at the time.

I left my job as a financial analyst working for a post-series C startup. They had raised $80M in their Series C from large venture capitalists and I was their primary analyst. I made board decks, pitch decks for banks, built budgets and forecasts, and did month end and quarter end reporting. I briefly had a manager that told me "Some day you will get really sick of making other people millions of dollars" and from that day forward, I couldn't get it out of my mind. I always had the entrepreneurship bug but I didn't think I would pursue it so early in my career. Now I am 24 years old founding a company culture application called Shaka (https://joinshaka.com) focused on fostering communities and connections for employees within great organizations which is something my former company struggled with. We launched officially in mid-July and have about 6 months runway saved up. I am working on my product hunt launch now!

I left my career being a Pipeline Inspector to become a Maker. It was a tough decision, and it's tough starting from scratch, but I needed to leave because the work environment became Toxic for myself and my family.

Before this adventure I was a freelance illustrator.

Great question Alex! I am planning to take the leap on the 15.03.21 leaving my corporate job as the Head of Growth Marketing for a Chinese Tech Giant and probably the most hated company in the USA (LOL) to embark on a journey to create The Udemy Of Personalized Learning and World's First Tailored e-learning platform of its kind -> The Mastery hub www.themasteryhub.com

I used to be head of digital at an agency, but then came across that quote about making other peoples dreams come true. Decided to start the my own consultancy that became my personal Angel fund - As I was paid for the consultant you, the money went back into the various builds and experiments. I’m now slowly transitioning my company to the tools I’m building rather than charging time. Reckon one more year. Past two years have been about balancing the client work with the side gig. Getting there!

6 years of consulting and co-founding startups. Failed at 8 out of 10. Decided to convert our failures into learnings and finally into a product. Launching in November. Took us almost an year to diverge and converge with the ideas. Imagine an app that helps you become a founder through a read, play, learn approach - that's what we're building. We call it 8infinity.

Digital Media analyst and Ad tech consultant. I was working with ad tech platforms and media publishers and moved in a totally different direction. Probably not as big a change as coming from Archeology :)

HR by profession from past 10 yrs. Aspiring entrepreneur. Still afraid to take a leap, but took a small jump and started making No-Code products. Created one. Not launched here yet (probably hesitant). But I'm sure soon I'll feel confident to do so.

I just left my sweet job at Shopify to take a crack at making my own thing. I wrote an article about my decision making process https://www.adamwaselnuk.com/202...

I have passed up-on many opportunities as a software engineer in order to pursue my vision, self-funded. I am sure a lot of people can relate to the struggle of trying to stay motivated when potential rewards are far in the future.

Hey I was an ex-Wall Street Trader, currently doing data science research work at the intersection of medicine and AI. Working on a project to educate people about the quantitative finance industry and figuring out how to create content blog or product regarding my learning. Love being a maker ever since trading has gotten me cognisant that I could build things that generate value. Definitely the dream is to work hard right now so that I have greater optionality to pursue other passions I have in life.

I am a product manager for now. And frankly speaking I am going to combine it with software engineering for now

Here looking for inspiration. My Job sucks(micromanagement, overtime, shitty shifts,.. endless list), and almost every alternative day I'm on the verge of planning to fill exit form and devote more time to the idea that I'm working on. But I don't have money to live more than a few months without salary. Talk about switch? My damn portfolio/Resume (ohyash.github.io) never makes it out of level 0 filtration (ATS/Recruiter eyes). Thanks for listening to my rant. I'll get back to reading responses here.