10 Things That Changed My Life, After I Quit My Fulltime Job To Make iPhone Apps One year ago I quit my job and walked out of the sleek modern office block in Dublin city center. I’d decided to take a chance, enjoy the summer and see if I could make money developing mobile apps. People thought I was crazy. But I needed some time off after a busy year. I didn’t want to stay in work, being moderately happy. I didn’t want to look back in a years time and say ‘I wish I had done that’. The worst part was saying goodbye to my colleagues. One year later, here is an overview of what has happened. For more info visit: www.thechocolatelabapps.com Learn how to start your mobile app business at www.mobileappcourses.com Mobile app university http://www.mobileappcourses.com/ How to make your first iPhone app http://www.mobileappcourses.com/how-to-make-your-first-iphone-app-bootcamp/ App Producer Secrets http://www.mobileappcourses.com/learn-how-to-make-publish-reskin-iphone-apps/ iOS App Development http://www.mobileappcourses.com/ios7-xcode-app-development-tutorials/ Chartboost Mobile Ads http://www.mobileappcourses.com/get-more-chartboost-ecpm-and-ad-revenue-in-your-mobile-apps/ IPhone App Development Virtual Assistants http://www.mobileappcourses.com/get-a-virtual-assistant-outsource-your-app-business/ App Game Blog http://thechocolatelabapps.com/ Learn how to make mobile apps http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/courses/ Buy iPhone app source code http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/buy-app-source-code/ Iphone app Development mobile consultant http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/courses/mobile-app-consulting-marketing/ Get a free app audio book https://choclab.leadpages.net/escape/ How to make Flappy Bird http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/how-to-make-flappy-bird/ iPhone App Development, buy app course code, iphone app source code, mobile app source code, iphone, ios, mobile application development, how to make apps, how to make games, how to make mobile apps, mobile app consultant, iphone apps, android apps, flipping apps, reskinning apps, how to reskin apps, make mobile games, mobile app, android, app developer, start app business
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10 Things That Changed My Life, After I Quit My Fulltime Job To
Make iPhone Apps
A Word From Elaine One year ago I quit my job and walked out of
the sleek modern office block in Dublin city center. Id decided to
take a chance, enjoy the summer and see if I could make money
developing mobile apps. People thought I was crazy. But I needed
some time off after a busy year. I didnt want to stay in work,
being moderately happy. I didnt want to look back in a years time
and say I wish I had done that. The worst part was saying goodbye
to my colleagues. One year later, here is an overview of what has
happened.
1. How Hard I Work Is Directly Related To How Much I Earn In
the past, hard work was directly related to how successful I was.
Products were shipped on time, targets were met, everyone was
happy. The difference now is that while I am still shipping on
time, meeting my own targets and being happy in the process, I dont
have to wait for a yearly performance review. My salary is not
dependent on other peoples decisions.
2. I Can Take Holidays Whenever I Like I can take holidays,
travel, meet friends or go to the Dreaded Dentist whenever I like.
I dont need permission, I dont need advance warning and I dont feel
guilty about temporarily abandoning my projects.
3. I Can Work In Any Country. I can work in any country. There
are no work borders and no restrictions. All I need is a laptop and
wi-fi. As simple as that.
4. I Can Pay Others To Do My Work For Me I can pay others to do
my work for me. And then I can do what I love which is not working!
This is the next stage for me. If youve read the 4 hour work week
you can see where this is going. Ideally I want to be able to know
whats going on, steer the ship in the right direction, but have a
great team working for me so I dont need to be online every
day.
5. I Have An Opportunity To Help People When you get a chance
to help someone, and they put in the effort and execute, and you
see their success its amazing.
6. I Can Go On Any Business Trip I Choose A poll in the office
one day agreed that the ultimate business trip was a conference in
California. But there was zero chance or getting something like
this approved with budget cuts, fiscal curtailments, etc. (I did
try!) I have flown out to California on business once since then,
and it wont be the last time.
7. Constant Learning Whenever I started a new job there was
always pressure because you were playing catch up, but it was
always really exciting as you were learning a ton of new stuff. I
really enjoyed this stage. Then after a while in your job, you
tended to have it all under control and it could be more mundane,
with not much to learn any more in that role. Sometimes you could
be pushed to learn things you had no interest in, which can be
exasperating. I learn so much every day in this job and that shows
no signs of changing any time soon. Instead of learning what a
million other people learn in standard professional courses taught
the world over, I am learning from people who have already achieved
tons, from amazing online blogs, books and international
seminars.
8. You Can Never Have Too Many Friends I was worried a year ago
that I would end up as some kind of weird hermit, banging on the
keyword and only seen out once a week while I grew my business.
Thered be no office chat, no water cooler moments and things were
going to get quite lonely. What actually happened is that because I
was really motivated and enraptured by the app business, I didnt
notice the hours flying past during the day. I made more of an
effort to catch up with friends outside of work. And this year I
have met TONS of new friends that I would never have met otherwise,
from all around the world. This is crazy stuff.
9. My Commute Is About 10 Seconds From My Kitchen To Desk I
dont waste time and life commuting anymore. Kitchen to desk - 10
seconds. Now thats what I call a fast commute!
10. I Dont Get Paid Any More, I Make Money The satisfaction
that I actually have the ability to turn $100 into $200 using my
own knowledge and skills is mind blowing to me. I dont think that
will ever change. This was all possible because I choose freedom,
not security. Life is too short to waste your time doing something
you dont love. Its been a crazy year but its also been a huge
amount of fun. Woooohoooo were one year old!