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!
Dario, it only took a few minutes listening to you talking about this to know you had enough passion to make things happen. Can’t wait to see how you next chapter emerges!
Onwards and upwards!