An anti-workaholic has revealed how you can ditch life in the office and do ‘very little work’ while still bringing home a ‘seven-figure’ salary.
Laura Anderson is a digital marketing consultant from Florida who has amassed more than 463,000 TikTok followers by sharing tips on how to earn money while barely working, advising people to take advantage of the ‘Chat GPT gold rush.’
While speaking recently to DailyMail.com, the 34-year-old detailed the skills that would help you leave behind your desk job for good.
Laura revealed how changing your mindset could help you become financially free without being tied down to an office job.
An anti-workaholic has revealed how you can ditch life in the office and do ‘very little work’ while still bringing home a ‘seven-figure’ salary
Laura Anderson is a digital marketing consultant from Florida who has amassed more than 463,000 TikTok followers by sharing tips on how to earn money while barely working
Laura explained that the new digital age could help many people ditch the corporate life and pick up a new skill that would earn them more money.
The consultant told DailyMail.com: ‘Fortunately, we live in the digital age where you can pretty much learn anything online, which to me, personally, has eliminated the barrier to entry when it comes to learning something. You don’t need a degree when the internet is free education literally right at your fingertips.
‘A degree at this point almost seems criminal when you have to go into mountains of debt to learn something that is already online to learn, and then doesn’t even guarantee you a job, especially when companies are now valuing experience over a degree.
‘The digital age has also eliminated the need for a nine-to-five structure – the majority of jobs can be done simply from a computer, and that became extremely apparent during the pandemic – people were able to continue working from home without skipping a beat.’
Laura has been attempting to shift everyone from the ‘soul-sucking’ nine-to-five lifestyle so that they too can do ‘very little’ work while bringing in the cash.
She explained that she wanted to leave her desk job because she found she had very little free time.
‘For me there is nothing more soul-sucking than the 9 to 5 lifestyle. Having to be somewhere five days a week, knowing that if it’s a nice day out I can’t go out and enjoy it, I have to go into office is gut-wrenching,’ Laura said.
‘To have to use lunch breaks to go to doctor visits, or run an errand because I don’t have any other time to do it, simply isn’t a fulfilling life in my opinion. And I believe we’re sold a lie that you have to get a degree and work a nine to five in order to be successful. You can learn a digital trade/skill, market yourself, book clients, and work for yourself.’
While speaking to DailyMail.com, the 34-year-old detailed the three skills that would help you leave behind your desk job for good
Laura revealed that opting for a life in digital trades and changing your mindset could help you become financially free without being tied down to an office job
Speaking to DailyMail.com, she revealed the skills you could learn online to escape your desk job.
‘The internet has unlimited information and you can learn any digital trade. There are so many digital trades that people already have and already do for their current jobs that they don’t even realize they could go out and do on their own,’ Laura said.
‘Some great digital trades to learn are media buying, SEO, copywriting, graphic design, coding, social media management, and UX design.’
Laura recommended completely immersing yourself in learning a new skill by taking a course, reading up on the topic, and watching YouTube videos.
The expert also advised positioning yourself as an expert, because ‘now that you’ve learned the skill you can become the go-to person in that skill by marketing yourself and establishing a foundation.’
Her third tip is booking clients, which she called ‘the hardest part.’
Luckily, Laura said ‘there are so many contract opportunities for these skills on places like Upwork, LinkedIn, and Indeed.’
She explained that the biggest con of corporate lifestyle was the lack of a ‘work-life balance.’
She noted that once you ditched the desk job, you could use AI to your advantage and would soon find yourself living the life you had always dreamed of.
She explained that the new digital age could help many people ditch the corporate life and pick up a new skill that would earn them more money
Laura, who calls herself ‘the queen of outsourcing,’ now manages to earn more than six figures every month
‘Leaving that environment allows you to only have to work the actual amount of time it takes to get the job done,’ Laura told DailyMail.com.
‘Also, with the technology of AI it’s never been easier to work smarter not harder, and do twice the amount of work in half the time.
‘Getting out of a nine-to-five also solves the pay limit. When you work for yourself you can take on as much work or as little work as you want, meaning the sky’s the limit with earning potential.’
While Laura noted that there was no way to make work ‘100 per cent passive,’ there were things you could do that require little effort and still gain wealth.
Laura, who calls herself ‘the queen of outsourcing,’ now manages to earn more than six figures every month by doing media buying, which was running ads for clients on social media platforms.
However, she hires people to help do these tasks, which allows her to take on more clients.
‘So, take any digital skill, book clients, and pay someone else to do the work. And put AI automation systems in place to streamline the entire thing,’ she said.
Finally, Laura said that you must change your mindset to help free yourself from the binds of a nine-to-five job.
‘Mindset plays a big big role. Knowing that it’s obtainable and that an office job isn’t your only option will really allow you to make big changes and make things happen. But some real actionable changes would be spending one to two hours every single day learning something that will get you out of your nine to five,’ she told DailyMail.com.
The anti-workaholic also says that if you stay consistent, within ‘six months, your life will be forever transformed.
