Flying out of a golden cage

An osho discourse remarked " Albeit that your cage maybe made of gold but once you have seen the open sky , its difficult to return to it" .
So quitting my job was easy. I hated it for the most part and was working only for the payslip. According to company policy, one had to take a 2 weeks mandatory off once a year. I used to travel out of country once a year and had been doing so for the past 5 years. This was my sixt year and this time I couldn't due to various reasons. But I had to exhaust the leaves. I took them. I came back and reached my saturation point. I quit. My manager tried retaining me telling good things about my performance at work so far and his personal bitter story of being unemployed for a while. He told me to think over my decision. I did , next day I submitted my resignation. This time no retention attempt.
I was already doing good on trading with a little help from particular sauce and had a vision of how I would scrape through the problem is I don't want to just scrape through I wanted
to live extravagant . Many would call this act of mine brother ballsy when I quit my stable income job for an unstable one which of the more freedom and to be one's own boss, many people I know would think how dare you when we slog from 9 to 6 he works a  few hours from home and earns more than us. 

There are many who are contempt with their jobs and hence their lives. Cos most part of your adult life, you will be spending at work .Well a few years into working as the cog in the wheel, I knew I wasn't satisfied at all .The only thing I enjoyed was the take home salary every month.But sacrificing most part of your life for that one day in a month of happiness wasn't really worth it if you think. When I was young , I knew this wasn't my space and had to get out.But how ?

I used to work in the Customer support of an MNC bank. There were many who would not share the same views as mine but a few , very few individuals would. Some would say I'm crazy to share view points like calling  ourselves " corporate slaves "when deep down they knew that this was true. If you are working for someone else, you are essentially working your ass of to make that person richer. The trade off is that you are offered a steady income at any market condition. There is a Damocles sword that looms above everyone's head of getting the pink slip. But for the most part at least in a country like India, its not very common. 

Well at 29 , I quit my job without actually getting a new one. All my well wishers and family were skeptical cos most people quit when they have another one waiting. If you think like most people, then you end up like most people with dead end shitty jobs for most of their lives. Maybe the illusion of power and control in the form of promotion might keep you happy. But understand that when you work for someone else, the harder you work, the more you are trying hard to make that person richer. So how do I get out of the cycle ? you may ask . Well I cant really tell you what you have to do with your life. But what I can tell you is how I got out and maybe if you trying replicating and improvising on what I have done then maybe one day you also will be able to get out of the 9 to 6 jive.

Keep an eye out for this blog and I ll tell you some of the things that enabled me to get out of the system. But maybe after showing you what I did its so simple that you will feel like a spectator who just got to know the magicians tricks. Watch out