It's been a year and two months since I was fired from my job for being incompetent (August 2023). At first I denied that it would be true, especially after working there for a year and a half. Also, they happened to have fired about 40% of the company the month before. Either way, I decided firstly, to never completely be dependent on job to pay my rent. Secondly, I decided after a couple of months to assume I was truly incompetent and as much as possible to have a plan to never ever be called incompetent again.
What followed was a roller coaster ride of a lifetime. Around May of this year, it got to a point where I completely lost my sanity. To the point I had to get clinical help. Best thing that happened to me this year. I do think there is value in our shortcomings but when it gets to a point where you stand in your own way constantly, it's time to do something about it. It doesn't take too much. I was at a point, where I was completely broken and decided to be a 100% honest about everything to the therapist. It saved us months if not years. I was able to look at my situation very differently instantly.
It was not over yet, but it was a start. A much needed step one. Since, then I was able to pay my rent with my SAAS that I was building(around September). The advance would only last me till end of January 2025. But today, I might have found a solution that would ensure I can continue improving my product as the user count grows. It's a contract with a company which has only one person in the tech team. He also happened to be my friend. It's quite the exciting job too. I'll get to build the back end and the admin side of things as I want. Couldn't have asked for anything better.
Things are looking really good, I took the day off today to soak it in. A lot of things are happening, I feel hopeful about my life and where it's going.
The order of things as they happened was vital. It's easy to get comfortable at a job. But now that I have a product that has a need and a vision to grow it way beyond it's initial plan is quite exciting. I don't want to jinx myself. The best news of all is still in the works. It'll change my life in a way nothing yet has.
I'd like to thank my intuition. It's my language of spirituality. As soon as I was fired, I had a loud and clear voice in my head that made me reject the initial job offers that I got soon after. It was the scariest thing to decide, as I had never ever even considered the idea of SAAS, if it wasn't for a friend of mine. But I was all in, even though I was terrified. I knew that if I had to, I will find a way. It's what got me into programming, quitting my job as a dive instructor and diving completely into programming. If I've learned anything, it's that jumping in with both feet will always work for you, maybe not in the way you imagined but in ways that you could have never imagined.
Now that I have been presented with this remote possibility of having the life that I couldn't have dreamed of, I'm all in.
Take the leap.