Aditya Chadha

Yep, that’s right. I quit my job, and lived to talk about it.

A couple of months ago, I was just like a large majority of people on the planet. Working at a very large company. Thinking that I was making a difference helping other large companies cut costs, or increase efficiency or something equally responsible. Being underrated because I wasn’t kissing ass. Living from paycheck to paycheck, working hard at something that I didn’t quite enjoy but did anyway, because it paid the bills and let me enjoy a certain lifestyle. Falling asleep in the toliet at work, you know.

And then, it hit me.

No, not the life is short cliche (although, that is a great speech and I am an apple fanboy!) - no, it hit me that happiness is not hard to achieve. Everyone tells you to do what you love, so when you’re doing something you don’t quite love, you quit. So, that’s what I did. I quit.

But, it’s not quite that easy. How do you find out what you love doing? Well, to be honest, you don’t. (ding! ding! ding!). Like most people I had no idea what I should do with my life (Po Bronson - 2002) - but I had been reading a lot of smart entrepreneurs and their views on interactive marketing and the new collaborative web (note: yes, the so called web2.0 but that’s another cliche I’m hoping to avoid) and then I read iWoz and that was really it.

I realized that I had been most satisfied when I was building things (software), the creative thrill of starting from scratch and ending with a finished piece of code that did what it was expected to do in a fast and efficient way had been sheer joy. And, in working for a big faceless corporation, I’d lost all of that, and I realized that I missed it. I wanted to be an engineer all over again. Badly.

Leaving isn’t that easy though. You need to have some sort of a plan.

subLucid, was my plan.

[To be continued...]

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