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My advice. Take the other job. Continue photography as a side hustle on the weekends, and quit when you have a enough business and savings to feel comfortable for 6-12 months.
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I would never encourage someone suffering from anxiety to start a business. It’s unbelievably stressful, lonely and life is unfair as an entrepreneur. People can sue you, make up false narratives, publicly review their opinions of you (anonymously).
Take another job and do you passion as a side job for now. If the anxiety goes away and can be set to one particular situation, then maybe go for it later. But it’s a head space that’s dangerous for those with mental health or dependency issues.
Ha, I'm quite anxious and couldn't stand cubicle life. I have to be out there in the world, driving around, and seeing the results of my work!
I agree with you but I am not a person who suffers from anxiety. The job I was at had a toxic work culture, poor leadership, public humiliation, unattainable goals, and extreme micro-management which I was able to handle fairly better than most people at the company. Before then i've never experienced anxiety and as soon as i left that work environment it all went away.
I also think it's different when you're working for yourself than working for someone else and a lot of the frustration I felt was that I was sitting at a desk 12 hours a day 7 days a week in a company that sees me at a number and I'm wasting my life away where as i can spend that time energy and effort on my own projects.
Fair answer, then in that case go for it. Nothing worse than a bad situation.
Realise that the entrepreneurial journey in itself has a lot of anxiety, and then decide to embrace it by choice anyway!