Quitting your job to “pursue your passion” is a really terrible advice

This is a dangerous article. The author decided to become freelance designer while having a partner working full-time, no credit card debt, and no outstanding loan. This is quite a security belt if you ask me.

I had to take a $10k loan days before quitting my job. At the same time, I had to keep repaying the mortgage of my mother, my own rent (London is very expensive), while figuring how to bootstrap my very first business. No business angel, no venture capital, no connections. Not in Silicon Valley either.

I had about 3 months runaway. The clock was ticking and failure meant personal bankrupcy at age 23. But the depth of my soul was "feeling it", I couldn't not do it, it was impossible.

What happenned ? No " I got rich in 1 week" story. I escaped financial troubles at the last minute (signed for a consulting client on a 26 of december!). But at the end of the contract, I chose to do it again : I used the 2-3 months runaway window I was seeing to sprint fulltime and try to have a breakthrough.

Yet (and this is my point) I consider that these were the best decisions of my life. I don't regret them 1 second, and I'll do it again 100 times if necessary. If I change something, it would be to take even more risks. For example buying a car so that I can sleep in it a few months to cut costs.

My take on this article is that this person is not an entrepreneur at her heart. She went there for the wrong reasons - I actually feel that she went there for no reason. Also she seems to confuse owning a job with owning a business.

There's no point in owning a job for the sake of it. You'd better off having a corporate package if you can secure one. But owning a job is worth it as part of a systematic plan to establish a business.

But this requires entrepreneurial inspiration, and vision and I don't think that this person had any of them.

There are too many red flags, for example the fact that her relatives encouraged her while she doubted. In my experience, it is usually the opposite : people tell you you'll never make it, it's not a good time, wait a few years, you're crazy, you're arrogant like your father/uncle/[put your favourite one here] and be careful you won't go far in life look at him ! ... And you have to focus hard to ignore these discouragements among hardships.