I Left Corporate and Discovered I Actually Like Selling Myself

Anyway: On being different, and doing it anyway · Aug 31, 2026 · 1m

Before leaving corporate, I assumed finding clients would be one of the parts of working independently that I would hate.

Cold outreach. Following up. Talking about myself. Selling what I can do.

Except that isn't really what it has felt like.

In this short reflection, I talk about one of the most unexpected things I have discovered since leaving a 15 year corporate career: I genuinely enjoy the commercial side of working for myself.

Maybe selling feels very different when what you are really doing is meeting interesting people, asking questions and finding out whether you can help.

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