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title: 'How to Transition Out of Your Day Job in 2 Months'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=rF-psBCg3mk'
video_id: 'rF-psBCg3mk'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 1712
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# How to Transition Out of Your Day Job in 2 Months

> Source: [How to Transition Out of Your Day Job in 2 Months](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rF-psBCg3mk)

## Summary

Gillian Perkins outlines a practical 2-month plan called the 'high-ticket sprint' for replacing your day job income by selling services to just 3–10 clients. She emphasizes that you don't need an audience, a product, or a large budget—only a clear service offer, a simple website, and direct outreach to people you know and strategic networking.

### Key Points

- **Why people stay in jobs** [00:29] — Comfort (not necessarily cushiness) and not knowing how to start a business are the two main reasons people don't work for themselves.
- **High-ticket sprint plan overview** [01:51] — Land between 3 and 10 clients selling a service, not a product, to replace and potentially overshoot your day-job salary within two months.
- **Why sell a service, not a product** [02:44] — Services require no product creation—no course, no widget—just choose a service you can provide and sell it.
- **Outcome-based pricing scales income** [04:04] — You get paid for results, not hours. Example: generating 100 leads at $200/lead = $20,000 for just a few hours of work running Google Ads.
- **Weeks 1-2: Create your offer** [08:58] — Choose a profitable market (e.g., SaaS or a local niche) and solve a real problem for them. Offer a service priced between $1,000 and $5,000 per client.
- **Set up business website and payments** [11:52] — Use Squarespace for a simple site, buy a professional domain, and integrate a scheduling tool like Acuity or Calendly to handle bookings and payments.
- **Legal and banking setup** [13:26] — Register your business name with the state (~$50), get a free EIN from the IRS, and open a business bank account.
- **Direct connect marketing** [15:03] — Talk to people you already know (first-degree connections). Divide them into those who might want your service and those who definitely do, then tell them about your new business.
- **Strategic networking with easy yes opportunities** [17:44] — Instead of random mixers, identify specific potential customers and build relationships. Offer 'easy yes' opportunities like podcast guesting, contributing to articles, or speaking at online events.
- **The 'Are you hiring?' technique** [21:36] — Asking business owners if they are hiring is flattering and less threatening than pitching a service. It opens a conversation and lets you naturally introduce your offering.
- **Goal: one new customer per week** [24:20] — Landing one new customer per week at $1k–$5k per service yields $4,000–$20,000/month, enough to quit your job.
- **Lean startup costs** [25:29] — Startup costs are about $50 for business registration, plus less than $100/month for website, domain, scheduling, and email software.

### Conclusion

The high-ticket sprint plan is a low-cost, high-speed route to self-employment that replaces the need for a large audience or product development. By focusing on selling services, doing direct outreach, and landing one customer per week, you can realistically transition out of your day job in two months.

## Transcript

pretty cool. You get to set your own hours, decide where you work, when you actually show up, whether you show up. You get to decide what you do. And, of prices. So, you can decide how much your
time is worth, and you also can work on making your products or your services more valuable so that people are willing to pay more for them so you can earn even more. So, with all those benefits, why don't more people work for
working for others? Well, I think that there are perhaps two main reasons. One there are perhaps two main reasons. One of them is because it's comfortable, and I don't mean it's cushy. I just mean it's comfortable to keep doing the thing
thing that most other people do. Basically, it feels safe. And then, the other reason is just because a lot of people don't know how to start their own business. Maybe they feel like they don't have a good enough idea, or like
they would have to invest so much time into building an audience first, or like they think it's going to be really expensive. Well, I started my first business when I was 14. Before I even knew that maybe I needed any of those
things. I didn't have an audience at all. I didn't have any money to invest in it. In fact, I just had a skill that people started asking me to teach them, and it grew into a pretty big business, actually. Well, since then, in these
last, I don't know how many years, 19 years, I think. I'm 33. I have started over a dozen different businesses. Some of them, of course, have been more successful than others. Today, I run three different brands online in three
different verticals, and it's going pretty well. So, what I want to do in today's video is just kind of give you my best plan for transitioning out of my best plan for transitioning out of your day job in the next two months, and
how you can do it without investing much money at all, and without having to grow an audience, and without having to design and build any sort of product. If name is Gillian Perkins. I make new
videos here on this channel every single week all about online business, and today, how to get your own online business started. So, we're going to call this plan the high-ticket sprint plan, okay? We are not going to be
Instead, we're going to focus on landing just a few customers so that you can fully replace your day job salary, probably even significantly overshoot it, and be able to quit your day job within the next couple months, if that's
something you want to do. So, big picture, here's what we are going for. We want to land somewhere between three and 10 clients, and you are going to be selling a service, not a physical or even a digital product. Now, the reason
why I would recommend that you use a service if you want to transition out of your day job as quickly as possible, is because you don't have to make something to sell a service. You don't have to record an online course. You don't have
to design a widget and get it patented and produced and all of that. All you need to do is choose an idea of a service that you can provide to people. you. What you are really going to be creating here is going to be fairly
creating here is going to be fairly similar to a job, okay? But, it's going to be way better than a job working for someone else for two big reasons. First someone else, you'll be working for yourself. So, you'll get to set your own
wear pajama pants if you want, you know, for yourself, including the fact that you get to decide ultimately what you're actually doing. The other big perk is that, unlike most jobs where you're
working for someone else, where there's quite a cap on how much you can earn per quite a cap on how much you can earn per hour, there is almost not a cap on your yourself, even when you're doing services. Now, I know you might be
people are only going to pay so much for a service. But, when you sell services, there are different ways that you can creatively scale them, where you can work with multiple people at once. So, the sky is the limit in terms of how
me give you just a couple examples. First of all, people are paying you based on the outcomes that you're able to create for them, not actually based on your hourly rate. So, for example, if you can generate leads for a local
business, then they might be willing to pay you 100 or $200 per lead that you send them, and you might be able to figure out a way to do that by running Google Ads for them that only takes you a few minutes per week. So, a couple
hours per month to run the Google Ads to earn $200 per lead, well, if you can generate 100 leads for them, that could potentially be $20,000
for just a few hours of work from you. Now, yes, that is a better than average scenario I'm talking about here, but it's certainly possible. And it just service, you're getting paid for the outcome that you're creating for people,
and that can result in an astronomical hourly rate. And then let me give you one other example here of how you can scale your hourly rate. What if you are
consulting, and initially you're doing it for a one individual, and maybe they're willing to pay you $1,000 a month for those weekly sessions? Well, you can potentially turn it into group coaching. They still might be willing to
pay you a similar rate, depending on how effectively you market it, but now for that same, let's say about 6 hours per month of coaching that you're doing, instead of earning just $1,000, you could be earning $6,000 pretty easily.
And then at that point, you're earning $1,000 an hour. And I know that right now, if you're earning $25 an hour, that might sound crazy. That might sound like get rich quick. That might sound way too good to be true. But, I'm here to tell
and specifically in the working for yourself with a service business model, it's totally doable and a lot of people do it. Now, before we get to the next part, I want to tell you about a tool that I've been using a lot lately called
GenSpark. So, if you are a business owner or a content creator or really just anybody, you probably are already using AI tools like ChatGPT to save time with your planning, with your content creation, with your research, and so on.
But, what if there was a tool that could not just help you with the planning parts of the process, but actually do the work for you? Well, that's exactly what caught my attention with GenSpark. It's this all-in-one workspace where you
can do things, you know, like researching and planning, et cetera, but it can actually do a lot of the work for you, which can save a lot of time. It can help you get out of the weeds and stop having to do so many basic things
yourself, but instead get to the real heart of your work. And not only that, about GenSpark is that it brings a whole bunch of different AI tools all together in one place, so that you don't have to pay for multiple subscriptions, but
instead you can just use GenSpark to get the capabilities of all these different AI platforms. They're also rolling out new updates all the time. The latest one is called AI Workspace 4.0, and it includes workflows that can automate
multi-step tasks like researching a topic, organizing the findings, turning them into content, and even formatting it into finished documents or presentations. It also includes meeting bots that can attend meetings and send
summaries, and something called Speakly, which lets you dictate ideas into polished writing. Plus, you also get tools like AI Slides, AI Docs, AI designer, and AI developer, so that everything from presentations to data,
to assets can all be handled in one place, and a lot of it can even be done for you. If you want to give GenSpark a try, then now is a great time because for all of this year, GenSpark is giving unlimited AI chat and AI image
generation to all paid users. Plus, if you sign up with my link, which you can find in the description box down below, then GenSpark is going to give you a bunch of free credits that you can use for additional projects. If right now
you're using multiple AI tools, and you can see how much easier it'd be to have them all in one place working together, then definitely give GenSpark a try for link to do so down in the description box. All right, now let's get back to
the video. Okay, but let's get into it. How can you actually do this in the next tell you. You're probably not going to get to the point where you're earning a thousand dollars per hour in the next 2 months cuz that's going to take some
figuring, okay? But, what you can certainly do is replace your day job, okay? Start earning five to ten thousand dollars per month pretty easily. So, here's the plan. First stage is weeks one and two. In
weeks one and two, what you're going to focus on is creating your offer. So, basically figuring out and deciding what you are going to sell, what service you definitely want to choose a market that has some money. So, for example, a
specific niche or industry of business owners, software as a service, that sort problem that you can solve for this niche. Now, initially, you might not know the answer to this. You might not have thought about the problem yet, but
that you know something about, that you have some sort of involvement with, that you have some sort of connection to or an interest that you have, and then start thinking about the problems that they're facing and which problems you
right there is going to be the basis of your offer. But, I want to give you some real examples and ideas to get you started. So, we're looking here for a service you can offer for between 1 and 5,000 dollars per client so that you'll
be able to hit your income goals with just, like I said before, between 3 and ideas. I set up your entire email funnel in just 2 weeks. So, this is a service you could offer to small business owners or
even potentially bigger businesses, but businesses that aren't fully online yet and they need some help making that happen. I'll generate 15 to 25 new leads per month for your local business. So, that's the one I mentioned before.
I'll help you generate 50 plus five-star Google reviews in 60 days. Again, great for the local business that needs some help getting online. There are so many businesses like that out there. You could provide a full business
rebrand if you like to do design work. You could film and deliver 20 short-form videos for your brand in 1 day. You could do a product photo shoot to create a product photo library with 50 plus images. Now, let's shift away from
business-related ideas and talk about some outcomes you could potentially provide to individual customers. Maybe, I'll help you heal your gut and reduce inflammation in just 8 weeks. I'll design and guide your full body
recomposition plan with weekly coaching. I'll declutter and organize your home so that everything has a place in 2 to 4 weeks. I'll organize your kitchen and weeks. I'll organize your kitchen and pantry into a clean, labeled system.
Or, I'll fully pressure wash and restore your exterior surfaces of your home. Or, I'll fully detail and restore your car interior and exterior. ideas than that, but those are just a few real-world examples that even could
potentially be an idea that you choose. With your idea chosen, the next thing that I would recommend you do in still these first 2 weeks is to set up a basically like your online business card. It tells what this result is that
you can get for your customers. It gives them the option to connect with you. And it can also provide additional information about how the service works, or what sort of outcome they could expect, or any qualifications that you
have relating to this. Creating a website doesn't need to be complicated. Personally, I like using Squarespace for this. That's what my website is built on. It just makes it super easy. I would recommend that you do invest in a domain
name so that your business can be, for example, gillianperkins.com instead of a weird free domain that you can't really communicate to people verbally and doesn't really look professional. Okay, and then the final business setup thing
that you'll need to do is make a way for people to be able to purchase this service from you on your website. Now, you can actually do this directly with Squarespace at this point, or you can set up a scheduling software, something
like Acuity Scheduling or Calendly, and you can integrate that with your website so that people can go on your website and schedule the services, and they can scheduling software. It used to be that you had to monkey around with like
PayPal links and payment processors and stuff like that, but these days you your website, at least if you're using something like Squarespace, or with your the first 2 weeks. You're just deciding what you're selling, setting up a simple
website, and a way for people to pay. And that is going to be your basic business setup. Now, there are a couple more things I would recommend you do. Technically, you could wait until you are making money with this business, but
if you have time, better to get them out of the way sooner than later. Register your business name with your state. This normally costs about $50, and you feel like you need to hire a lawyer or anything like that. And then you'll want
to also you sort of register your business with the IRS so that you can get what's called an EIN, which is an employer identification number. You might not be planning to be an employer yet, but every bank requires you to have
an EIN and open a business bank account, which is the third and final thing I'd business. Getting the EIN, by the way, it's totally free, and it just takes a couple of minutes on the IRS website. You just
fill out a form. With that in hand, you'll open that business bank account, account now to that way that you're going to be receiving payments, and you'll be off to the races. Okay, now we
come to the middle part of this process, which will start at week two and will kind of continue indefinitely. This is definitely the most challenging part of the process, but with the right strategy, I know you can make it happen.
And you've probably already guessed I'm talking here about marketing. Somehow we needed to get to these customers. Now, what I don't want you to do is spend a lot of time creating content or a lot of money running paid ads. Those methods
are going to be costly and time-consuming and simply are not necessary when we only need between three and 10 customers total right now. something that I call direct connect marketing and then strategic networking.
simply, it's just when you talk to people that you already know. These are called first-degree connections. Now, we want to divide all the people you know into two categories. One category is going to be people who might
want your services. The other category will be people who you're pretty sure do want your services. And of course, that second category is going to be way bigger than the first category. That's totally fine. In fact, you might not
even have anybody in the first category. Although, if that is the case, I would recommend that you consider possibly choosing a service that you do know at might be interested in that product or service because it will make your life a
lot easier. So, what you'll want to do is write down the names of everybody you know on these two lists. With those lists in hand, you're just going to start talking to these people, telling them about this new business that you
have started and the service that you are offering. And of course, for most of these people, when you talk to them, you are not going to be trying to sell that they would possibly want it. So, instead, you're just filling them in on
this kind of by accident when he started his own construction company. Basically, long story short, he had been working for a construction company as an employee, and he had a work phone through them that he'd had for a few
construction company to set out on his own, he couldn't take the work phone with him, so he had to get his own phone, his own work phone. And he went through his contacts from the old phone, and he needed to transfer them all over.
you send people a message that's like, "Hey, new phone, it's still me." You is and whatnot, so they can add you to their contact book. Well, he just did that, but he also tagged on the reason why. He said, "I'm starting my own
construction company, setting off on my own, so I had to get a new phone number." Well, that ended up turning into months of work for him without him having to do a single bit of proper marketing. And that just goes to show
the results and the customers that you can create just by getting the word out. When people know that you have a service to offer, if it's a service that there's actually demand for, you will find people asking for your help. Now, of
course, you only know so many people though, and you might not know very many people who are the right fit. But, even if you know a few people who can be your first customers, you probably don't know enough to supply
your business with customers and revenue for years on into the future. So, how are you going to get more customers? Well, eventually you might move on to things like content marketing or paid advertising. But, for now, I would
highly recommend that you just focus on strategic networking. So, here's what strategic networking is not. It's not going to mixers or networking events and just shaking hands with random people, introducing yourself
to random people. That is absolutely the slowest way to go about networking and often doesn't create any real results. So, what you need to do instead is So, what you need to do instead is identify specific potential customers.
Now, who your potential customers are is going to vary a lot depending on what your service is, and where you will find them is also going to vary a lot. You might be looking up businesses I was going to say in the phone book, not
actually the phone book. Looking up businesses on Google and maybe the owners of those businesses in specific niches, maybe those are your target customers. Or, maybe it's employees at specific types of businesses. Or, maybe
you can join some sort of membership or group that you know your target customer is likely to participate in. However you need to do it, the point here is to find
these people who might become your customers and start relationships with Now, I know that this might feel weird, you might feel like you're starting a relationship with an ulterior purpose, which to some extent you are. But, you
don't need to be creepy or weird about it, okay? You genuinely do want to get to know these potential customers, even if they never buy from you, so that you can learn from them. You can learn more about what this target market wants and
what they really want to achieve. Now, let's talk a little bit more here though about how you can become friends with them cuz that's kind of weird, right? become friends, you know, maybe you can
whatnot that they go to. You can introduce yourself, you can learn more And a lot of the time that works. But, if not, like for example, if they're more of a public figure, if they have an audience, that can sometimes be hard to
do. So, instead, what you'll want to do is come up with a creative way that you could potentially collaborate with them. For example, one of the reasons I started my podcast back now about 3 years ago was not just because I wanted
to use it to grow my audience or even to talk to my audience. Those are great benefits, but it was also because I could see that it could facilitate connecting with people. In short, I wanted to be able to invite potential
collaborators and sometimes even potential customers to be guests on my podcast. This is what I would call an easy yes opportunity. When you cold email someone and you ask them for something or even if you ask them if
most of the time your email will get ignored. But, I found that there are a handful of opportunities that you can offer to people that they will eagerly take you up on. And being a guest on a
podcast is definitely one of those. So, if you've been thinking about maybe starting a podcast, you might want to consider it for this reason if none other. On the other hand, if you don't want to start a podcast, you're not out
you can connect with potential customers. Let me tell you about just a could ask them to contribute to an article that you are writing. So, if you do have a website at all, you could write an article for it and you could
feature quotes from different experts. And those experts could be these people for one more idea, this one is a little bit bigger, but you can organize an online event such as a summit or an online conference, or of course a local
conference, although that's a lot more work. But, you can organize some sort of online event and then invite these potential customers or collaborators to be speakers at your event. What's great about all of these opportunities is that
they are very much win-win, and they are also highly sought-after opportunities that I've found from my personal experience have a very high conversion rate or high acceptance rate. Now, I do want to give you one more idea, perhaps
the easiest of all, of how you can potentially connect with customers, and that is if they are business customers, simply to ask them if they are hiring. Small business owners, especially, tend to find this flattering much more than
which is interesting because it can actually be the exact same service you're offering them, but if you ask it as, "Are you hiring someone to help you with this sort of thing?" or "Are you hiring anyone?" then they take it much
more favorably than if you offer a service. To have the most success with this strategy, I would recommend that your initial outreach email is very general. You literally just email them and ask them, "Hey, are you hiring? If
your company?" And this is going to be much more well reached out and you said, "Hey, I'm a video editor and I'm offering video editing services. Do you need any video editing services?" or something like
that. Even if ultimately you're offering them the same service. So, in this first example, where you reach out, you ask them, "Are you hiring?" If they respond that they are hiring, then they'll probably tell you what positions they're
hiring for, even if it's not the position that you were reaching out to them about. Like, even if you're offering video editing services and they say, "Oh, we're looking to hire a customer service person." You now have
established contact. Now you are not cold pitching anymore. Now you can say, "Oh, you know, thanks so much for letting me know. I'm actually a video editor. I don't know if maybe you're interested in video editing services."
door. All right. So, now you have several strategies you can use for getting the word out, starting to connect with potential customers, and connect with potential customers, and land these first few deals. The last few
weeks of the 2-month process of transitioning out of your job are going with these customers. Now, I would recommend that you really aim to have landed your first couple of customers by the end of the first month, so that in
month two, you can focus on delivering the results to those customers, and then and getting reviews and that sort of thing, because that will make it even easier for you to land subsequent customers. Also, because in order to be
able to actually quit your day job and transition to working for yourself, you will need to have money coming in the door, right? Not just be working on marketing your business, but actually be working with some customers, and then be
ready to start working with more customers in month three. Now, exactly how many customers do you need, and how hard do you need to be hustling to make this happen? Well, I think that a simple goal of trying to get one new customer
per week is going to be plenty for most people. If you can just meet that goal, most likely, you can transition out of your day job in just a couple of months, of how much that's going to earn you, remember here, we are looking to sell a
service that we can sell for between 1 and 5,000 dollars. So, if you get just one customer per week, then you are looking at at least about 4,000 dollars per month, up to about 20,000 dollars per month. Now, that's a pretty big
range, and it's going to completely depend on how big of a value you can offer to these customers, how much you can help them. Most likely, when you first start out, you will come up with something that maybe you can do that
would be worth about $1,000 to these potential customers, but over time, as you are working with them and you learn more about what they need and what would figure out services you can offer that will be even more valuable or just how
you can get bigger, better results for them that they will be willing to pay strategy overall is that we are not talking about building up your audience for years. We are not talking about developing a product that you don't even
know that there's demand for and we're definitely not talking about investing only thing that you'll probably be spending money on is your website and domain name and then possibly email marketing software and scheduling
software. But, all told, we're talking about less than $100 per month in only things you're going to need to spend money on are, first of all, registering your business with your state, probably for about $50, and then
your website, your domain name, your scheduling software, and maybe some email marketing software. So, $50 startup costs and then less than $100 per month in business expenses. That's what I call a lean startup. When you
build an audience, you attract not just followers, but really fans. People who love you and your work and they want to learn more from you. Now, I've been I've really been noticing that it is one of the biggest factors that sets
successful course creators apart from people who really struggle to sell their online course. So, I've been working on backwards engineering what has worked for me for building my audience over these past 10 years, but also what is
working for my clients today as they are building their audiences in real time in And I'm working on a few different pieces of content on how we can most successfully be building our audiences in this year that we are actually living
in right now and as we are competing with AI as well. Now, the first one of those pieces of content that's going to come out is a video all about three of the biggest mistakes that people are making as they are working to build
releasing the video on my YouTube channel in about a month. We've got content all lined up until then, but I've gone ahead and just put it on my website right now and you can get early access to it for free if you go to
access to it for free if you go to gillianperkins.com/early-access. with more videos in the future as well because a lot of the time just due to release the videos too close back-to-back, but I can go ahead and put
them on my website earlier for you guys so that you can watch them as soon as they are released. So again, you can find that video about three of the biggest audience building mistakes people are making in 2026
at gillianperkins.com/early-access. And I'll put the link to that down below as well. Now, if you have any questions comment in the comments section down below. I'm in my comments every day and
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