Patrick Havens on January 26th, 2007

What happened?” My accountant asked last April. He’d been doing my taxes for more than a decade and had seen my annual income rise well into the six figures.

“It looks like you took a . . . “–he worked over his calculator–”98 percent pay cut.”

“Yep, that sounds about right.”

“How did this happen?”

It was quite simple, actually. I went into my boss’s office one day and quit. No severance. No other job. No interest in a counteroffer. I simply walked away.

At age 38, I’d decided to become an actor.

[Why I Quit My 6-Figure Job]

Good story about why following a dream is better then making tons of money. I don’t have his gumption to actually do it. But it is a nice feel good story.

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