My friend in one of the big 4 made it to manager level and quit because she wants to become an influencer… I want to advise her to stay for the income but she made up her mind already what you think

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She should follow her dreams. It’s not on us to judge her decisions.

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Unless she already has enough followers to already be making decent money at it, she should not leave a steady paycheck. Try to convince her to spend time growing her base first. Once she's making enough money to replace her paycheck, then maybe make the leap.

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What's her @?

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Think of it as one less person you’ll be competing with for a job when they start making cuts …. Let her go

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How hot is she?

What/who will she be influencing? Can it grow realistically?

Influencers can make a ton of money or little to no money at all. You need lots of followers across multiple platforms and you need to be able to keep those followers engaged while you essentially act as a shill for whatever companies pay you to market their product. For those that are not truly famous, this is real hard work and definitely not secure. On top of the hard work to make it work, the platform(s) you use to make money can become less popular, you can say or do something that destroys your following, your account(s) can get suspended or banned, etc… Unless your friend has a large savings account and can live comfortably on what she makes influencing right now (not what she hopes to make in the future), I would advise against this move. Only the top 10% or so of influencers make more money than a Big 4 manager and they typically have well over 100k followers.

If she’s in a big city and gets married first she’ll be fine since she likely won’t be the breadwinner in the relationship

Interesting. I’m in nyc and it’s nearly impossible for me to meet anyone making less unless I go out of my way to. My two closest friends in my B4 group are dating guys in tech who made 250k and 500k last year. My partner works in a tech- adjacent field and made multiples of that. We are all in our mid- to late-20s

Let her FAFO

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