Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Point of No Return”.
Have you ever had any experiences where you thought to yourselves? If I do this or across this line, there is no going back, I think when we bought the studio, I was gon na say yeah I mean that was huge. What a like enormous, life-changing moment right like it, was up man how much of it was debt at the time by the time we did all the tenant improvements and everything like like built out the space and stuff like we’re. Probably a million dollars in debt which, but at that point in time, was enormous, yeah, like I I hoped I would get out of it eventually. You know like it was not um. It was not trivial right um I mean.
Obviously when we started the whole thing. Um yeah I mean walking into my boss’s office at NCIX, was pretty terrifying. When I, when I laid out that I am leaving, because that was the only way that I had any kind of negotiating position, I basically had to say: look I’m leaving regardless. So you have two paths you can follow. You can follow the path where I help keep NCIX Tech tips running and help you transition this or you have to figure out how to replace me and, like you know, two weeks notice or whatever um wait. Sorry right either I walk away and you try to figure out how to transition this thing in like two weeks notice, and I go work for a competitor, and I will I will build this again for them or you work with me.
I take Linus Tech tips. I help you keep NCIX Tech tips running. I help you transition it and I will give you uh. He asked for like four months notice or something like that, which in retrospect is way too long. You should never be working at a job that you know you’re, leaving for like a quarter um by the end of it. Like I mean the good news is there was a lot of time to transition things off me. The bad news is by the last month. No one was assigning me anything.
I didn’t have anything to do because I think there’s some scenarios where it might make sense extremely senior people in certain positions like you wan na. If you want to leave super amicably, I I’ve seen situations where, like you want to give a really serious amount of time, so they can recruit and like fully train up the replacement stuff like that. Um four months is a long time, but I’ve heard of I’ve heard of some some very long, long EST periods, man, it’s late, yeah .