Leaving A 9-5 Job & Going Full-Time In Business at the “Wrong Time” with Dovile Sinke
Dovile Sinke’s bio
Dovile Sinke is an online business coach who helps ambitious women start and scale their online businesses to create their freedom lifestyles. Dovile Sinke is also the founder of the GoMama Mompreneurs community in Lithuania and a cofounder of Sinkusstudio, an SEO agency.
Dovile Sinke’s experience in corporate banking
Dovile worked in the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) for four years. She then moved into consulting in Zurich, Switzerland, where she worked for four years.
However, she wasn’t satisfied working in a corporate job, but she didn’t have the courage to quit her 9-5 job & go full-time in her business. To listen more, go to [02:01]
What made her leave her 9-5 job and go full-time in business
At [04:29], Dovile shares the things that prompted her to quit her 9-5 job. While in her corporate job, she had a bad accident as a result of being overworked and overstressed.
“The grass is greener on the other side.”
Moreover, her close colleague, whom she shared a desk with, died after a short illness. This made her realize that life is too short. In addition to that, she attended a breathwork session in Bali, where she discovered she was not living her own life.
Her pregnancy journey and how it affected her decision to quit her 9-5 job
Dovile shares how her strategy of quitting her 9-5 job while on maternity leave was holding her back. However, after staying for two years without getting pregnant, she decided to quit. To listen more, tune in at [06:43].
How Dovile’s journey to entrepreneurship started
Dovile started her entrepreneurship journey while still in her 9-5 job. Together with her husband, they started an affiliate marketing business while she was in her corporate job. She worked on her online business every night after her corporate job and over the weekends for about half a year. Later she decided to quit and go full-time in her business. To hear more about her business journey, go to [09:33].
Her fertility journey
For two years, Dovile experienced a difficult moment in her life, seeing her friends getting pregnant while she was not getting pregnant. It took her two treatment cycles with hormone injections to get pregnant.
She got pregnant after the treatment cycles, and her daughter was born. To hear more about her fertility journey, tune in at [12:09].
How Dovile battles mom-guilt
Since Dovile had the desire to launch her new business (a community for moms), she decided to get support from a nanny support for her daughter. However, the societal norm that a mother should take care of her child without support made her feel guilty. To hear about her mom-guilt experience, go to [17:13].
“Life is too short.”
The benefits she experiences after leaving a 9-5 job & going full-time in business [22:16]
At [22:16], Dovile shares some of the benefits she experiences after leaving a 9-5 job & going full-time in her business. Unlike her 9-5 job, Dovile now has the ability to check on her daughter while she is still working.
Additionally, she is now able to pick up her daughter from kindergarten. Moreover, she can now have time for herself which her corporate job wouldn’t allow.
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