Natasha Left Her Tech Salary In San Francisco And Took Her Body To New York

Natasha, 30, had a product manager role at a mid-size SaaS company in San Francisco — stock options, kombucha on tap, the whole thing. She was also doing test shoots on weekends for a photographer friend, which she told nobody at work about until a fashion week street-style shot of her went mildly viral in October and her entire Slack workspace sent her the link simultaneously. (The kombucha incident, as it is now known.) She negotiated a remote arrangement, used it to relocate to New York, then quit the remote arrangement four months later when a cosmetics giant offered her a year-long ambassador deal. The stock options have not vested. She does not seem concerned.

Anna Walked Out Of Her Real Estate Office Mid-Showing And Called Her Agent From The Driveway

Anna, 32, from Miami, was showing a $1.2 million waterfront property to a couple when her phone buzzed with a callback from a modelling agency she’d interviewed with six weeks earlier and completely given up on. She excused herself to ‘check the Wi-Fi router’, stood in the driveway, and accepted a three-month contract on the spot. (The couple bought the house. Her colleague got the commission. Anna bought a better handbag.) She’d been doing real estate for four years — good money, unpredictable hours, and clients who treated her like a GPS with a real estate license. The agency treated her considerably better.

Destiny Quit Her Corporate Gig On Her Lunch Break And Announced It Before She Got Back To The Office

Destiny, 25, from Houston, was six months into her first ‘real job’ — a junior analyst position at an energy consultancy — when she realised she was using her lunch breaks to answer modelling inquiries she didn’t think were going anywhere. They were going somewhere. A sportswear label out of Los Angeles had been following her for three months and made a formal offer on a Wednesday at 12:47pm. She accepted at 12:49pm, posted about it at 12:51pm, and was back at her desk at 1:02pm. (She tendered her resignation at 1:04pm.) Her manager said she was ‘making a mistake’. That was fourteen months ago. Her manager’s opinion has not improved her bank balance the way the sportswear deal did.