How to Quit a High-Paying Toxic Career for Meaningful Work w/ Ben Fox | Ep. 102
About this episode
Ben Fox discusses how to transition from a high-paying toxic career to meaningful work.
One of the ways you can enjoy your path to FI is by finding work you enjoy. That might involve quitting a career thats not serving you, or making some changes in your current work place. Today, we’ve got Ben Fox on the show to talk to us about career transitions. Ben is a career coach - based in New York - and his coaching niche is primarily helping senior software engineers break free from the golden handcuffs and into careers they love Things you’ll learn: Quitting his job and going full time as a solopreneur First year as a solopreneur and struggles experienced The power of joining online community / group programs The power of having the right people around you when starting businesses How he niched down to coaching tech professionals Reasons why people go to him for coaching (their initial career struggles) Coaching clients: example case studies Case study 1: Garth: accountant of 23 years in toxic environment Case study 2: Mel: mid 30s, 2 kids, 15 years in sales, but does not like it Why we find it hard to quit jobs we hate Advice for people struggling to leave the golden handcuffs The risks of staying in a bad job His coaching process outline Creating healthy boundaries in…
People in this episode
Host: Greg
Guest: Ben Fox
Topics covered
- career transitions
- solopreneurship
- coaching
- toxic work environments
- work-life balance
- personal development
Keywords
- career coaching
- golden handcuffs
- solopreneur
- toxic jobs
- work enjoyment
- coaching process
- healthy boundaries
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Places: New York
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