Should You Quit Your Job to Start a Business?

About this video

Sean Dollwet argues against quitting a job prematurely to go full-time in a business, despite claiming he made $166,000 the previous year from self-publishing and affiliate marketing — a figure he presents as his own earnings claim — while still working a part-time job three days a week. He says you need a job for living expenses, insurance, and money to build the business, and warns never to move into a parents’ basement or borrow from friends and family to fund a startup. The real test, he says, is productivity, not hours: if you cannot build a business in spare time, more time will not fix poor time management, and he says he built his Kindle business in one to two hours a day. Before quitting, outsource and systematize everything possible — he gives formatting on Fiverr for $5-10 and hiring a VA for ordering, uploading, and marketing as examples of low-value tasks you should not quit a $10-30/hour job to do yourself. Only quit when, after outsourcing everything outsourceable, lack of time is still what blocks scaling. He also notes a part-time job provides social contact and recommends building passive-income businesses like Kindle publishing so income is not purely active.

Key takeaways

• Do not quit a job on guru hype before the business is proven; keep income for expenses, insurance, and reinvestment
• Creator claims $166,000 in the prior year from his business yet kept a part-time job 3 days a week
• Productivity and time management matter more than hours; he says he built Kindle publishing in 1-2 hours a day
• Outsource low-value tasks first — e.g. formatting and VA work — instead of quitting to do $3-5/hour tasks yourself
• Quit only when lack of time still blocks scaling after everything outsourceable is outsourced and systematized

Episode details: published February 21, 2019 · 9:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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