Scary, but Not Impossible… Leaving the Job You Hate for the One You'd Love

He saw his dream in front of him. And now, he needed to figure out how to escape… October 31, 2019 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [Altucher Confidential] “He saw his dream in front of him. And now, he needed to figure out how to escape…” [Wooden Steps] [NAME Podcast Banner]( Editor's Note: See James Altucher’s workshop “Recession or Boom: Five Trading Strategies That Will Work in Good Times or Bad” at TradersExpo in Las Vegas, November 8 at 5:45 p.m. [Click here to sign up!]( The BEST Investment You Can Ever Make [James point at you](STOP. Don’t buy a house. Don’t buy a stock. Don’t buy gold. Don’t buy Bitcoin… Until you see the #1 best investment you can make… [BEST SECRET: You already have it.] [Read more here.]( Wait! Before I say “comedian,” Let me tell you who Paul Mecurio really is. He’s a transformer. A true reinventor. He started out at as a lawyer on Wall Street. Because it was logical. And he got used to making $2... $3… $4 million a year (after bonuses vested). It was hard to give it up... at first. “I was a grown man who still wanted someone to tell me what to do,” he said. But he still made little efforts. And those efforts add up. Overtime Paul stopped taking notes in meetings. “I had a passworded folder on my computer,” he said. “I was making observations and writing jokes.” And then one day he got a chance to meet Jay Leno. “How did you distinguish yourself?” I said. “Because everyone says, ‘I’m a big fan.’ So how did you stand out?” “There was a private function. They had this big, fancy openhouse and Jay Leno was the private entertainment. I couldn’t go. I had hours of work.” He wasn’t going to go! He had to be convinced. He goes. “I’m putting my coat on. I’m standing over my keyboard... and I say, ‘F--- it.’ And hit print.” 15 pages of jokes stream out of his computer. And he goes to see Jay Leno. This is where the naivety comes in. Paul went from being near the top of one hierarchy to the bottom on another. He doesn’t know the right move. And he’s not thinking about it, either. He hands Leno the pack of jokes. “I don’t know if you need jokes,” he said, “but I’m never going to use these. So you can have them.” “Aren’t you going to put your name and number on this so I can reach you?” Jay Leno said. Two days later, he gets a call… and one week later, his joke gets aired on “The Tonight Show.” Before this, no one knew about his dream. Not even his girlfriend of 8 or 9 years (now wife). He was living a double life. If the senior partners knew what he was doing, they wouldn’t tolerate it. He’d be out. Immediately. This was a gamble. THIS Marijuana Super-Greenhouse Is About To Change the Weed Market [Green house](Located just 25 miles from Cleveland… is a super-greenhouse unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Listed at over 1.4 million square feet (equivalent to 9 full-sized Costco warehouses), this marijuana grow house is capable of producing over 341,000 pounds of weed a year! 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So I talked myself into believing that ‘God’ made the decision for me and that I HAD to do this… Which I didn’t. But I was looking for a life raft and I grabbed onto that.” It takes years and sometimes lifetimes to choose yourself. Because no one could really say, “Okay, good I’m gonna drown.” It’s scary to jump out of the safety net. He would’ve had to go from the investment banking world to dirty dive bars and open mics is hard. So he took just the first step. And that’s the best anyone can do. He left the “approved” path of being a lawyer for another “approved” path (running his dad’s business). And eventually, it drove him crazy. “I was more scared, more confused. I didn’t know where I belonged. But I couldn’t stay. So I moved.” Back to New York. (And part time in Boston, too. Because Boston’s good for comedy. Gary Gulman was there, Steve Sweeney, Don Gavin. A lot of the greats.) The story of how he picks himself up is really remarkable. I’ll tell you more in a second. But it’s all in this podcast. And I think you’ll see yourself in this story, too. I did. I read Paul his credits. He’s been on Jay Leno, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show. He has his own podcast. He’s interviewed Paul McCartney, Bryan Cranston, Sugar Ray Leonard, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Colbert and me! I really wanted to know what led him to DO all this. (The podcasting, the comedy, the acting, the filmmaking.) And not just think about this… He said he didn’t know. But I don’t think that’s true. It was just something that lived inside of him. And he acted on it little by little. That’s the magic of doing. 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