How to Escape Your 9–5 Job By Saving Time, Money & Energy

Whether you’re trying to start freelancing or level up an existing business, there are three resources you need to make the leap. Here’s how to save them.

This story is Week 3 of 15 in the Framework Journey series on how to create a freedom business and live the life you want.

Last week in the Framework Journey series, you created a blueprint to help you figure out who you are and what kind of life/business you need to build if you’re going to be truly free. This week is all about SAVING. Why? Well, let me illustrate by jumping back in time a few years to when I was still slaving away in the corporate world…

November, 2015

I’ve been working as a copywriter at an agency in NJ for more than a year. I hate it; it’s absolutely soul-crushing. The clients are evil and/or boring, the meetings never end, the culture is toxic, and, worst of all, the job is a dead-end with no potential for growth. I need to get out, but I’m expending so much energy just trying to SURVIVE on a day-to-day basis that I have absolutely nothing left in the tank. I’m stuck in a vicious cycle.