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Thinking About Quitting my Job

Good advice at1010. Opening gyms would be the ultimate goal. I've developed my own program and its working really well. I want to use it to help other people reach their goals. I'm using this program to help a friend and he's been doing it for a month and he is hitting PR's. Its very satisfying.

I recently started a new job. During the interview process they asked me " are you passionate about product X" My response to them was I am passionate about selling and managing a team. I don't care what the product is, things parallel from one industry to the next.

If you have the passion you say you do, you can go far with whatever it is you want to do. However, it will not be easy to achieve that, you might wish you were back in the cubical, you might have times when bills are tight, but in the end you might end up on top very successful.

I am not trying to sell you the magic bean plant here, but I am simply telling you that it could happen if you have the worth ethic, think outside the box, do you market research, and in the end you need to jump if all the other arrows are still pointing you that direction.

Somethings I would look into
1. How much is 1 session for an customer?
2. How many customers could you possibly max out with in a day, without loosing effectiveness.
3. What is a feasible amount of customers you are going to be able to target ?
4. What do you think the turnover rate with be with customers, and how do you plan to generate new ones?
5. What is cost of acquiring new customers ? (Facebook promoted posts, time, effort, mail, ads, etc)
6. What can you offer that other trainers aren't offering? Discounts? Family deals? At home training sessions? Diet help? Etc. (something that you stand out about)
7. Based of number 6, why would someone pick you over the others? Lots of time guys want to just do a lower price, that will work for some but don't short sell yourself to get business. Find your core competencies and sell on that.

I hope this short list will give you some basic ideas, and help you to come to a decision as to how/what you will need to know to move forward. This is a very basic list, so if I can give you anymore advice it is simply: research, research, research.

Good luck!
 
One thing to consider: The hours. As mundane as the cubicle may be, I promise you will be putting in more hours on your own. Most of the people I know who are in similar fields have acquired multiple avenues to bring in money. They might coach, manage the gym, train individuals, etc. They tend to have multiple ways to make a little here and there.

The other thought (not to be a downer) is what happens to your passion when it becomes your profession? Are you still going to be passionate about it? Will it take time away from your training? Will this take the fun out of it? I say this only because it has happened to others. It is fun at first, but then comes the paperwork, marketing, odd hours, time away from family or personal workouts. . . Suddenly it isn't fun anymore and you just want some time for yourself to workout but you have to keep the lights on.

Whatever you end up doing, I wish you the best. It can be very rewarding. There can be many freedoms which come with self employment. There are many satisfying aspects to doing what you are passionate about. In the end, you are the only one who can decide if it is right for you or not.
 
Great advice guys. Thank you for taking the time to write it. I am just not happy with the 9-5 mundane crap. I want to do my own thing and follow something I care about. Its not about the money it's about doing something I love and helping others. If I can do that the money will come.
 
Great advice guys. Thank you for taking the time to write it. I am just not happy with the 9-5 mundane crap. I want to do my own thing and follow something I care about. Its not about the money it's about doing something I love and helping others. If I can do that the money will come.
Doing something you love for a living far outweighs the money being made. Good luck man.
 
I am a piping designer at an engineering company and I've been doing it for the last 5 years. Over the last year or so I've been trying to think of ways to get out of it. The longer I sit in that stupid cubicle the more I hate it. I talked to the wife about possibly getting into personal training and she was fine with it. It will be a slow process as I wouldn't just up and quit with no real plan but I have to do something I'm passionate about or I think I will regret it. Any of you guys ever give up a good paying job to pursue a dream?

Cool, I'm a piping designer at an engineering/consulting company also...What part of the state are you in?

Our biggest client is bphusky in oregon...I hated the office environment at my company, been here 11 years...I've been onsite at the refinery for the last 9 years...in front of the client and in the field everyday is the only way I have survived this long.

good luck what ever you choose to do, it's never an easy spot to be in.
 
I'm no help here. I like making good money working 40 hours a week and living my life the rest of the time to actually chase my dream. However I have a pretty sweet job (minus all the bullshit within the company) so that skews my opinion as well.
 
The last year I owned my company I cleared well into the 6 figures...sold it and took 3 years off work. I now make $15 an hour. I love my job but hate my schedule. Do what makes you sleep at night. Who knows, one or two clients might be enough joy that your job doesn't seem so bad.
 
Cool, I'm a piping designer at an engineering/consulting company also...What part of the state are you in?

Our biggest client is bphusky in oregon...I hated the office environment at my company, been here 11 years...I've been onsite at the refinery for the last 9 years...in front of the client and in the field everyday is the only way I have survived this long.

good luck what ever you choose to do, it's never an easy spot to be in.

I built a lot of scaffold in that place back in the day... Thats a busy operation during shut downs.
 
Keep in mind your age. If you're young and I think you said you were, then now is the time. Don't wait 20 years like I did to bust a move.
 
Making a living doing what you love is pretty amazing. Trust me... I know. But, you also have to be sure that whatever it is you choose is going to be a career path that is sustainable for the long term. Yes, you're young and you have more time available to recover if there are mistakes... but being young is also a great time to capitalize on consistent income and make investments. They say money can't buy happiness, but tell that to a homeless person. Bottom line is there has to be some compromise there. Just simply doing what you love to do isn't going to work if you're living in poverty. My suggestion is to keep your current job as long as possible and start the personal training as a side business. If or when you find yourself so busy with training that you can't keep up, THEN quit your current job.
 
Making a living doing what you love is pretty amazing. Trust me... I know. But, you also have to be sure that whatever it is you choose is going to be a career path that is sustainable for the long term. Yes, you're young and you have more time available to recover if there are mistakes... but being young is also a great time to capitalize on consistent income and make investments. They say money can't buy happiness, but tell that to a homeless person. Bottom line is there has to be some compromise there. Just simply doing what you love to do isn't going to work if you're living in poverty. My suggestion is to keep your current job as long as possible and start the personal training as a side business. If or when you find yourself so busy with training that you can't keep up, THEN quit your current job.

That is my plan.