Quitting my 9 to 5 job is dramatic. Converting it is strategic. You're sitting on an asset: an employer who already pays you, already values your work, and already has systems in place. Don't throw that away by quitting before exploring whether it can be restructured. Because most people don't realize: companies say no to remote work out of reflex, not policy. They haven't thought through whether it's actually necessary for you to be in the office. Your job is to make it easy for them to say yes. Remote employment: "Here's how this works legally. Here's proof it's compliant. Here are 78 countries that specifically allow this arrangement. Nothing about my work output changes." Or if that fails: contractor conversion. Not fake contractor where you're still an employee with a different label. ACTUAL contractor with a real business, multiple clients, and a service agreement. The difference matters legally. But if done correctly, you keep the income while gaining the freedom. Quitting is always an option. But converting means you're not starting at zero. Link in bio when you're ready to negotiate instead of quit. 🆘🇺🇸 #CreatorSearchInsights #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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If you're thinking about quitting your nine to five, let's talk about what that conversation with your boss could actually look like. If you have a secure job that could potentially be done remotely, you can go into a meeting with your boss with a mindset that you are trying to get them to let you become a remote employee. If you can become a remote employee that has the ability to travel the world, you can actually move to 78 different countries and there are 78 countries that allow a company outside of their borders to employ a worker who's just individually in that country. And that would allow you a ton of freedom. So going to that meeting with the mindset that you would love to have them be convinced that you can go do that. If they're not convinced, you can have a backup plan. There's actually 88 countries that you could move to as a freelancer. If you could then transition them into allowing you to move abroad as maybe a contract worker, you shift your role with the company away from being a full-time worker and instead get them on retainer. Make them one of many clients within your portfolio that makes up your total income. You have to be careful that you are not doing the same position that you were already doing for them. It has to be a totally different position and you cannot be on the company email. You cannot have a company laptop, a company cell phone. You can't be part of the company. You have to remove yourself from the company and actually transition that into you being your own business owner and they become a client of yours. That means that they are not allowed to dictate your hours, dictate how you do things. It's all about the scope of what you're going to deliver to them and if you can get them to agree to that, there's 88 countries that you can go move to. So these two options are ways that you can go into a meeting with your supervisor or with HR and try to find a way that you can kind of keep income flowing from that company while also having the ability to move abroad to dozens and dozens of countries. There are so many times that I talk to people who are employed full-time that just assume that their employer would not allow that. But they've never had the conversation because they don't know how to have the conversation. They don't know what they would say to the employer. If you don't know me yet, I'm Veronica. And five years ago, we left the United States for good and my husband had this exact conversation with his boss. He's been working from the Dominican Republic, Japan and Portugal all these years keeping his United States based job because he transitioned from a job that he always had to go into an office for to a job that was fully remote, internationally remote. So this is a conversation that you can absolutely have and have an effect on the employer's outcome by knowing what to say as you go into this meeting.
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