Leaving Bolt

Leaving the office for the last time.

Bolt is a great company full of amazing people, but after one year and nine months, my time at Bolt has come to an end.

I didn't get fired.

I didn't quit.

I didn't “leave my manager”.

In fact, my manager is great and I got extremely lucky joining Bolt in the Groceries domain.

I left Bolt because I found my 10/10.

Work that makes me so happy that I'll gladly do it for 8 hours on a Sunday and leave energized.

Teaching Estonian allows me to see people get smarter and better in the span of hours.

Years-long struggles are resolved in minutes.

I get to see happy faces and talk to my customers.

Now is the moment where I'm supposed to tell you that,

• I'm going all in on my Estonian-teaching business,

• work 80 hours a week,

• and burn myself out for a lofty goal.

That's not my plan.

I'm taking the next three weeks to build things for Decode Estonian - ideas that

have been floating around in my head and that need to get out.

After that I'll start contracting as a developer, because this year tech and

programming started to be fun again, and this is a good way to generate business income that I can feed back into Decode Estonian.

It's the first time in my life that I'm excited to be between engagements, because I actually have things to do.

Today's the first day when I'm starting my morning at my favorite café and don't have to go anywhere or do anything, for anyone else.

I can't wait to see where this road leads!