7 Things I Gave Up For The Full-Time Blogging Life - Cubicle Chic

7 Things I Gave Up For The Full-Time Blogging Life - Cubicle Chic 7 Things I Gave Up For The Full-Time Blogging Life Obligation free Life, Life as a blogger, Personal Finance May 4, 2018 12 CommentsSince leaving my corporate activity in February to concentrate on my blog, I've been saluted commonly and informed that I am valiant. A lot more occasions, individuals are just interested about how I did it. The short answer is that I arranged, arranged, and relinquished so as to get it going. I assume to the individuals who ask how could you do it in anticipation of picking up knowledge into how they can do it, as well, this isn't the most engaging answer. Since it is anything but a shortcut.Not Everything In Life Is HackableWe live in a general public that is fixated on hacks, designed proficiency, concealed insider facts and plans to progress. Be that as it may, life isn't generally hackable. I could've given this post a tick baity title, for example, 10 Things to Do In Order to Quit Your Job Be a Full-Time Blogger and I wager that would get the post in any event 10x more perspectives. However, that w ould delude. I can't in any way, shape or form guarantee you that you can do a similar that I did, following the means I took. Since I don't have a clue whether you're willing to surrender the things I surrendered. What I can do, however, is to share the things that I needed to forfeit and provide up so as to carry on with the existence I do well at this point. It's hard to believe, but it's true â€" not what I did, yet what I was unable to do any longer, so as to live this blogging full-time life.So, the rundown underneath is to strip away the breathtaking surface of full-time blogger and uncover the battles one needs to deal with to live this #lifegoal. Here are 7 things that I needed to provide up so as to turn into a full-time blogger.*Disclaimer*: 1) This rundown is intensely close to home account related. On the off chance that you are not keen on finding out about my own fund propensities, you'd likely need to avoid this post. 2) I would prefer not to make light of the way th at my better half despite everything works and acquires a not too bad salary and how that is the principle money related power that supports our coexistence at the present time. Yet, I additionally don't need individuals to expect that I keep on shopping, eat, live only a similar route as I did before when I made some full memories salaried employment. I don't. These progressions are what this post is about. 3)I have a juvenile blogging business. There are much increasingly settled bloggers out there that don't need to live the manner in which I live. In any case, with the end goal for me to arrive, this is the means by which my life should be currently regarding my own expenses.7 Things I Gave Up For The Full-Time Blogging Life1. My Shopping BudgetEver since our wedding in March 2017, the acquisition of our first home in May that year, and moving in, outfitting the house… and so on., I've been working with a $200 every month shopping spending plan. At the point when I was plannin g for my inevitable exit from the corporate world to chip away at my blog full time, I realized it needed to change. I was unable to legitimize spending anything at all on garments, frill, shoes when I despite everything don't make enough to cover the rudiments. Thus, my present shopping spending plan is an incredible ZERO dollars per month. Presently, one special case I offer myself to this standard is that on the off chance that I make anything from my Poshmark account, at that point I get the chance to spend that cash on whatever I want.2. A New CarNot a fresh out of the box new vehicle, no. Only an extra vehicle to the family unit. Since my auto accident in March 2017 (only 2 brief a long time after our wedding), we've buried the protection cash for when we'd need to purchase another vehicle. For the time being, I've been driving my school vehicle: a confided in 2004 Honda Accord with 180K miles on. My better half telecommutes, so he needn't bother with a vehicle for every day d rive. In this way, when I was driving down to Del Mar each day for work (a 25 miles trip), I drove his vehicle. We utilize the Honda Accord for nearby excursions to the markets and eateries. Do I need an increasingly dependable and more up to date vehicle? Without a doubt, I do. Do I totally require one? Not really. What's more, presently with me concentrating on becoming my blogging business and my salary still in its outset, I unquestionably don't should purchase any vehicle whenever soon.3. Rec center/Yoga Studio MembershipI cherished doing hot yoga, or simply standard yoga. I additionally love evaluating new classes like barre, turn (which I still can't seem to attempt) or aeronautical yoga. Be that as it may, they're unreasonably expensive for somebody who's not bringing in enough cash. What's more, whenever asked myself, do I have different choices with regards to working out? Hell yea â€" there are a lot of choices out there like YouTube recordings (I used to work out to Cass y Ho's recordings constantly) or doing squats, lurches, boards in my front room. Without a doubt, it's less inspiring and way less energizing. Yet, is that motivation to go overboard on costly yoga or even exercise center participation now? I've settled on a cognizant decision to state no.4. The Ability to Randomly Drop $50 On A DinnerOf all the things I've illustrated in this post, this is by a long shot the most agonizing. This is the most open, uncovered, and open sort of progress that I've needed to make. It includes having discussions with companions that I can no longer partake in our excursions where we haphazardly pick an eatery that happens to be $$$ and shell out $50 on supper. It's simply not feasible. Presently, on the off chance that we prepare and pick a sensibly costly eatery early, at that point I can attempt to get it going by changing different parts of my everyday costs. In any case, it doesn't generally work. It sucks.5. Day by day Work Routines And StructureNow we are racing into the more immaterial zone of the things I've needed to surrender. This was one of the most amazing components that found me totally napping. My days never again are characterized by an unmistakable start and a reasonable end. I can no longer depend on gatherings to design my time and they used to administer my working days. I am the main individual liable for gaining ground, for characterizing progress and for defining objectives… it was overpowering first and foremost. It additionally made me miss the corporate world unfathomably much.6. My Prized Identity as a Working WomanWhether you are a mother, a competitor, a planting aficionado, or a feline darling… there are things in life that we do, and love doing, that is a piece of what our identity is. It's a unique little something that you list on your Instagram profile that you need everybody to think about you. For me, having a well-paying employment in the corporate world and carrying on with that 9-5 life wa s one of these things. It's who I am. Or then again who I used to be for quite a while. This is the way I realize this exit isn't changeless â€" it's just a brief break. It's intended to permit myself the chance to attack into business enterprise and give this seemingly insignificant detail I've worked more than 3 years the opportunity to thrive. Be that as it may, I miss saying that I'm in biotech/showcasing and state that with complete certainty. It's presumably simply the absence of training, yet when individuals ask me what I do (particularly at 10:30 Am in the supermarket on a Monday) and whether I am an understudy, I falter a smidgen when I state I'm a blogger. I'm despite everything working on claiming this reality. #thestruggleisreal7. The Peace Of Mind That Even If I Stop Working For A Few Days Or Even A Few Weeks, I'd Still Have IncomeThe excellence of paid get-aways… and as buzzwords would have it, I never acknowledged it until I lost it. Walk and April were troublesome months for me for additional reasons than one. I was unable to compose. Occasionally I could scarcely get up. My working efficiency dropped to absolute bottom. Subsequently, my salary was influenced. Had I been working at a corporate activity, I would've presumably had the option to simply take vacation days to a great extent and still have an entire day's compensation while I rested at home. Whoever concocted the paid get-away approach in the advanced workforce is a virtuoso and we should all thank that person. ConclusionWith the entirety of that stated, I trust I had the option to paint a more clear picture for you about what it's taken me to start this blogging life. I didn't simply bumble onto this #lifegoal, and it positively doesn't come without a cost. While this isn't the conditions that I'd normally like to live with, it has managed me the chance to live my fantasies. Along these lines, most importantly, I am grateful.All photography by Natalia Alvarado @ Stylenfuse