I'll be leaving Popcap in the end of December. I'm halfway through my 3 months (!!!) notice and it's now just a question of winding up my work and spending the last few weeks with my colleagues.
It's the fourth place in a row where I decide that I've had enough and it's time to move on (in fact, the only time when I didn't leave by choice is when they kicked me out for mixing alcohol and water at a bar where I worked as a student, but that's a different story).
Maybe it's just me, but jobs feel like a snake's skin - sooner or later you reach the limit and the only way to grow is to throw it and get a new one.
This time it's different though. Instead of looking for work at someone else's company, I'll focus on my own ideas and try to create products and a business around them. I won't be calling it a startup yet and don't want to hype it too much. It's just a few things I'd like to try and I'll spend the next 6-12 months looking for gold nuggets or getting my butt kicked by the universe.
Thankfully the last 12 years gave me the experience to believe I know what I'm doing and enough savings to be able to afford an experiment or two. But probably the most important, I can count on my family for all the support and all the pressure I can wish for (and maybe a little more).
Plus I've already done some crazy things that looked pretty impossible in the beginning. It can't be that much harder than loosing 40 kilograms or running a marathon.
Right?
