5 months ago, in July of 2025, I decided to quit my job and go full time on my Bitcoin passion projects.
This is a decision I had been spending the better part of a year contemplating, full of doubts, and questioning whether it was the right thing to do or not.
You see, it wasn’t that I was particularly in a bad job. I was working at Autodesk (a big US tech company) and was in a role that was comfortable.
I was earning a decent salary, and was able to put my savings into Bitcoin.
By all means, it wasn’t a bad place to be in.
But something felt off. I was comfortable. Too comfortable. And most importantly not growing.
A quick backstory
Before I was working at Autodesk, I was actually working at my dream company in Bitcoin at Strike from 2021 to late 2022.
I felt very aligned working at Strike because I truly believed in the mission we were trying to achieve and to this day think its an incredible company that is doing amazing things in the Bitcoin space.
However, working for a Bitcoin company during a severe bear market is never ideal.
During my tenure at Strike, we went from all time highs to go below previous bull markets highs (unprecedented) in just the span of a few months.
Needless to say, this put Strike in a difficult position and I lost my job in November 2022.
As someone who had literally been all-in on Bitcoin (over 98% allocated), this left me with very little emergency cash and a situation where I did not want to be a forced seller during all time lows.
This was definitely a low point in my life. I had lost a job for a company with which I really wanted to build a career and with less than 2 months of cash on hand before I would have to become a forced seller of my Bitcoin - something which I really wanted to avoid.
However, I have never been one to dwell on the past so after about a day or two of feeling sorry for myself, I went back into the job market looking at which opportunities were available.
Finding Autodesk
In bear markets, Bitcoin companies are just trying to survive. When the price of Bitcoin crashes, so does general interest in Bitcoin and Bitcoin products or services.
To state the rather obvious, there was very little job opportunities available in Bitcoin.
However, after about two months of intense search and interviewing, I was able to land a job at Autodesk.
It wasn’t in Bitcoin but it was for a well established and stable company (something which I craved at that point) and with amazing offices in Barcelona.
I was very grateful for the opportunity at Autodesk because it allowed me to:
Avoid becoming a forced seller of my Bitcoin and have a stable source of income
Learn new skills in an established and big US tech company
Connect with new people in my Barcelona community
I was thrown into a new environment, met a lot of great people along the way, and learned valuable skills that will serve me for the rest of my life.
Returning to Bitcoin
From the beginning of my tenure at Autodesk, I always knew it would be more of a temporary stop on my career path.
Bitcoin was and is my passion and I knew that sooner or later I would have to return.
I mostly enjoyed the role I was in and the people I was working with but the product was not something I really cared about.
During my time there, I also started my podcast - The Bitcoin Journeys Podcast - in my spare time and on the weekends as a way to still be working on something in Bitcoin and have conversations with some of the people I looked up to in the space.
I also built out a brand called Bitcoin Advisory and a social media presence mainly on Instagram and TikTok
All of this while training for an Ironman and still trying to maintain a social life and build a relationship with my girlfriend.
However, after a while of trying to balance all of this, I could feel like the candle was burning on both ends. I felt like my energy was being pulled in a million different directions and I couldn’t dedicate myself to my Bitcoin projects in the way that I wanted to.
I was also becoming increasingly frustrated at my job because I felt like the time I was spending there was not contributing to my true passions and the work was also becoming boring and monotonous.
Making the change
I have always been someone that when I don’t see the long term vision in something and I feel like I am not growing in the way that I want to, I try to make a change.
Autodesk was a place that I knew would be a temporary stop and so because I could not see the long term vision with it, it made it very difficult for me to stay motivated.
This coupled with the fact that the work was also becoming monotonous and I felt like I wasn’t growing professionally gave me the push to make a change.
Now I’ll be honest. Its not like I just woke up one day, recognized these feelings and then decided to make the change.
It took me about a year from when I knew I needed to make the change to actually building up the courage to do so.
Because when you are in a situation like this where its comfortable enough to keep doing what I was doing, its easy to postpone.
I had a solid income, little to no stress in the actual role, and a group of colleagues I enjoyed being around.
But sooner or later, I knew I needed to make the change because your comfort zone are where dreams go to die. Definitely in a professional capacity.
So, after a year of debating the decision, I finally decided to just cut the safety net and put in my resignation in July of 2025.
Whats the plan?
When I left Autodesk, I didn’t have a step-by-step plan of how I was going to make things work.
I had projects that I wanted to focus on and a vague plan of how I would monetize it at some point but not much beyond that.
I am a believer in that the way often shows itself once you start walking it.
There are things that can come up that you don’t expect for better or for worse and while its important to have a sense of direction, the more important part is forward movement and making a little progress each day.
Since leaving Autodesk in July, that has really been my focus - forward progress everyday.
Because when I try and look at the big picture, all the fears and anxieties start popping up and it inhibits action rather than encourages it.
I have tried to approach it in a way that allows me to be free in pursuing my creative interests without also immediately trying to monetize it or put a KPI behind it.
But that is also because in the past 7 years, I have saved my money in Bitcoin and this has given me the financial breathing room to focus on the process and not directly the outcomes.
My input is what I control and so trying to focus on that everyday, while maintaining a positive attitude and continuously learning is the approach that I am taking right now.
What I am working on
In the past few months when meeting new people one of the first questions I always get asked is “so what do you do?” and to be honest, in the past few months I have found it awkward to answer that question.
Because the truth is, I am still figuring out a clear definition of that myself.
That and the fact that when you tell people you are working on Bitcoin it still gets met with the “Oh so you are a crypto bro?” or “Oh so you are a trader?” by 99% of people.
So I don’t really have an answer to this question. I guess if I had to answer it I would say I am a Bitcoin educator and entrepreneur.
I am an educator because I educate people through my podcast, my social media channels, and my courses/guides. And I also advise people on a 1:1 level.
And I am an entrepreneur because I am building Zapable - a marketplace for creators looking to build the Bitcoin circular economy.
But most importantly I am an insanely curious person, that is looking to get Bitcoin into the hands of 8 billion people in the best way possible.
I believe Bitcoin is the most important invention of our time because when we fix the money, we can fix the world.
So I believe things will continue to evolve.
I am not sure what the next 6 months will bring.
But I am sure that I will continue to chop wood everyday, take one more step towards building the future I want, and surround myself with people I deeply love and care about.