The reason why you are still hesitating to resign proves that the income from this sideline is far from good enough to really make you give up your original job. You just don't want to fight on two fronts and make yourself live so hard.
If you happen to have a sideline, and then it happens that the sideline is relatively smooth, but the main business is hard and has no future, you are struggling to quit. Before you decide, take some time to read what I wrote. Maybe what you will encounter in the future will be much more complicated than the freelance life you originally imagined.
First, the sideline income is more than the home page, and it will roll over after resigning.
At the beginning of 2065438+2007, Xiaobian, an official WeChat account platform, contacted me privately because she saw my continuous output on Zhihu and felt that my content was quite in line with the style of their platform. At that time, I first came into contact with the opportunity to write and contribute.
This is my fifth year in this large state-owned enterprise.
The expectation of work is clear at a glance, and I am extremely eager for better development, which makes me look forward to the opportunity to write and contribute.
Perhaps it was the official WeChat account platform that was in urgent need of writers at that time, or perhaps it was just beginning to write and felt that there was a lot to share, and the writing was very smooth. My remuneration ranges from 500,800 yuan for a single piece of 200 yuan, and even a company offered a remuneration of 1000 yuan.
For a while, my writing income soared from a few hundred yuan at the beginning to four or five thousand yuan a month.
At this time, an idea began to emerge: why not just quit and have more time to create? Part-time jobs can reach this level now, but there are still full-time jobs, and you don't have to hide it all day.
After more than half a year's struggle, I decided to resign with the help of a contradiction with my leader. The retention of many colleagues can't stop my desire to "get rich" through writing. I started writing full-time when my head was hot.
The first month of full-time writing was fine, and my income was still at the level of four or five thousand, but I was already in a hurry:
Five insurances and one gold are gone
The steady income is gone
How many articles do I need to write to barely reach the level before I quit?
I not only want to reach the level before my resignation, but also want to develop.
In the following days, there was no laughter from colleagues and no specific task arrangement. I was all alone, facing the cold laptop.
But what surprises me even more is that writing an article will overturn, and the speed of overturning is so fast.
The over-manuscript rate is getting lower and lower, and the requirements for editors are getting higher and higher. For the same content, the title should be more eye-catching, the content of the article should be more stimulating to readers' emotions, and the topic selection should be more in line with readers' positioning.
Or for nothing else, just say that your manuscript does not meet the requirements published in this issue for the time being, and I look forward to your persistent efforts.
On the platform of thousands of words behind, an article was changed for one month from the first draft to the final draft, and changed seven or eight times before and after. After settling the bumpy article, the editor simply said: we don't accept manuscripts.
The more I want to write, the more I can't write. In the latter part, the contribution rate is less than 20%, and no one wants to read what he wrote with his heart. I think everyone who writes has experienced the feeling of lovelessness.
My mind completely collapsed. My ignorance of the industry, the market environment, freelancing and myself made my creation stagnate, and I fell into extreme anxiety and anxiety.
Finally, five months later, my dream of writing full-time articles to make money went bankrupt.
Second, part-time jobs become full-time, and the mentality is immediately unbalanced.
Later, looking at my short career experience, I found that I not only changed from a part-time job to a full-time job, but also changed careers. This 180 degree bend is too good to fall off the cliff. Fortunately, it was just a rollover.
In recent years, I have seen some people who work on the internet platform. After resigning, they work full-time from the media and write, and feel that writing can earn more money than work. Or have one or two years of experience in new media operation, feel that you can stand alone and resolutely choose to resign.
Many of them can't hold on. Go back to work.
There are many reasons, and mistaking the platform for capability is one of them.
But I think the most critical and neglected point is mentality.
In the state of part-time, if you have income (whether it is going to work or doing a small business), your mind will be relaxed and everything can be carried out in an orderly way.
But once the part-time job becomes full-time, the mentality will immediately become very anxious:
Because your full-time income is worth your decision to resign, otherwise you might as well go back to work;
If there is a slight change in industry policies, income changes will change dramatically immediately;
More importantly, you have no patience. Your idea is no longer to manage your writing, polish your words with your heart and study the industry. There is only one thing on your mind: make money quickly, make money immediately, and make money immediately.
So you often brush headlines, and many people in Zhihu will ask: I have worked in the media for 10 days, and my income is less than 50%. Should I stick to it? Who can tell me that after half a year of operation, there is little reading from the media, so should I go back to work?
Much like when I first resigned.
Even if someone tells you how much money you can earn after doing what I say, you will keep asking every day: Why haven't I made any money after doing it? How come I still have so little money after half a year?
Impatience and impatience completely engulf you, which is the fundamental reason why you can't stay full time.
Third, return to the writing road for the second time and carry out the sideline business to the end.
Before I resigned from the state-owned enterprise, I made a belief that no matter how bad my life was, I would never go back to look for a job. If there is no way, I will look for it again, but I will never go back.
In the past four years, although I have been engaged in offline business, I have never given up my creation on Zhihu.
Scattered, completed more than 100 answers in two or three years, and accumulated fans reached 20,000. It brings together my observations and thoughts on business, entrepreneurship, career and contribution experience. You can browse it when you are free.
Until this year, after my offline business gradually stabilized and my career development ideas gradually matured, I was wondering if I could organize my experience in recent years, including some previous work experience in state-owned enterprises and some work experience accumulated at ordinary times into works, put them on the Internet and make a content output from media people.
I came back after a long ride, but this time, even if the income from the media is much higher than my business, I will not give up the offline business easily.
Fourth, content entrepreneurship.
This time from the media, it is different from previous submissions. It stands to reason that I stumbled on the road of writing, and my later career should be insulated from writing.
To put it bluntly, submission is to make wedding clothes for others. You get the manuscript fee, and your work is published on other people's platforms. The latter platform has nothing to do with you, because your work generates income again. The more you contribute, the more you feel that you are selling cheap labor.
Being self-media is more like running your own business. The behavior it produces is cumulative. Many platforms have integral systems, which will record your creative behavior and influence on the platform.