{"product_id":"goodbye-9-to-5-a-realistic-roadmap-out-of-your-day-job-9798197748355","title":"Goodbye 9-to-5: A Realistic Roadmap Out of Your Day Job","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jordan Cole\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Entrepreneurship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost quit-your-job books offer a leap. This one offers a bridge.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou have been thinking about leaving the day job for two or three years. You have a mortgage, maybe a spouse and children, and savings that feel both substantial and never enough. The popular literature offers two answers and both are wrong for you. One genre says quit immediately and trust the universe. The other says careers compound and autonomy is overrated. Neither matches the life of a working professional with real obligations who wants out, but wants out responsibly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodbye 9-to-5\u003c\/i\u003e is the operating manual for the twelve-to-thirty-six-month bridge between deciding to leave and actually leaving. It is built around three numbers (exit number, runway, bridge income), three paths (Bridge Income, Runway, Hybrid), and the practical logistics most career advice ignores: health insurance, self-employment taxes, retirement accounts, mortgages, business entity choice, the spouse conversation, and the first ninety days after the resignation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this book: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fifty Percent Rule: when side income is enough to justify the leap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA nine-to-eighteen-month runway target in four layers (cash, brokerage, Roth, HELOC)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 8\/16 weekly rhythm for holding a W-2 and building a business at the same time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to actually resign in a way that preserves the boomerang option\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDay 1 to Day 90 survival rules, and when going back to W-2 is the right call\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat durability looks like at year five, not just year one\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book for the mid-career knowledge worker who has read the leap-of-faith literature and found it unhelpful. It is not motivational. It is operational. It is the plan you would have if a calm friend who had crossed the bridge sat down with you and showed their math. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe exit is engineered. The life is durable. The bridge is the path.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891171016855,"sku":"9798197748355","price":944.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197748355.webp?v=1781182626","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/goodbye-9-to-5-a-realistic-roadmap-out-of-your-day-job-9798197748355","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}