For context, I live in Asia, and worked two full-time jobs previously, both on a rather short time period, i.e. just a few months each. The idea of hunting another full-time made me super duper dreaded a lot. Fortunately, while working full-time last time, I also freelance on the side, so I did make considerable income.
When I got terminated from my second job, my income doesn’t go down to zero overnight (thank goodness). I got issues with their way of working, and no amount of effort that I put into their company would make them acknowledge or at least appreciate my efforts. Doesn’t help that they micromanage everything that I did too. And the moment they saw me underperformed, they terminated me in a swift. For my first full-time job, I voluntary resigned coz of my issues with the manager being micromanaging too often, like the second former employer. You would think the issues from the employer would only happen when working on-site, but I worked remotely for both jobs, and yet I faced myriads of issues from them.
Even so, there’s a huge gap between the amount that I earned with full-time and freelance combined, and freelance income alone. That makes me terrified a bit, on one hand.
But I value the freedom of setting my own time and the amount I earn so much, I started to not wanting to find another full-time job for the sake of getting stable paycheck. My previous trauma with having endless panic and anxiety attacks working with my previous companies made me feel this way.
Not to mention, people around me have the thinking that not working full-time is not normal, and they seem to glorify their office culture so much, from what I saw.
Am I the only one who thinks this way? Do you guys experience the same way as I do?