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Corporate Life — An Honest Opinion
It’s been almost 4 years since I stepped away from freelancing full-time…
My Medium page has had some posts about me stepping away from pursuing music and performance full-time after finding a full-time job at an investment firm. Now that it’s been almost 4 years, I feel like I’ve learned quite a bit about myself and the kind of life and career I want to have.
Am I still performing? Absolutely.
Do I still earn money from it? Every gig I’ve done since switching careers has been a paid one.
Do I think I’ll ever go back to pursuing it full-time? Never say never, but at the moment it’s highly unlikely.
These past 4 years of receiving a steady paycheck have been the mental and financial stability I was missing for the majority of my twenties (I’m 32 now and married, with thoughts of possibly having kids in the few years to come).
Full-time performance — whether it was opera, musical theatre, acting gigs, voice-over — never allowed me to have that kind of stability. And I didn’t realize I craved that stability so badly.
Reflecting on this new corporate life of mine has made me realize how trapped I was in my thinking before this job. Here are some of the takeaways.
- Corporate life isn’t soul-sucking — it actually…
