The Route ← The Commons
Stage 08

The Exit

Work out the income you actually need to replace, then plan the conversation that ends the job.

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The path
  1. 01 The number
  2. 02 The bridge
  3. 03 The gate
  4. 04 The handover
  5. 05 Day one
  6. 06 Keep the resignation letter private
Read a real sample: The number

This is part of the actual course, not a sales excerpt.

An income target is useful only if it reflects your actual household and business costs. It is a planning input, not an automatic resignation instruction.

1. Build a replacement budget

Start with actual household spending and net take-home income. List housing, food, debt repayments, dependants and other obligations. Identify employment-related costs that would genuinely stop, and costs that would continue or increase. Do not assume childcare, insurance or transport disappears when employment ends.

Keep salary, bank records and itemised household details privately. You can declare a relative or rounded target publicly without uploading the underlying documents.

2. Estimate business costs separately

Include operating expenses, tax, superannuation, insurance, equipment replacement, unpaid leave and a reserve for slow periods. Gross business revenue is not spendable household income. Estimate the revenue needed to cover those costs and the replacement budget; check your assumptions with suitable independent advice.

There is no universal salary percentage or 25% premium that makes this calculation correct. Write down your estimates, their sources and the range of uncertainty, then review them as actual costs become known.

3. Examine stability and downside

Review income over time, customer concentration, late payments, renewals, reserves and seasonal variation. Six months can be a useful observation window, but it is not proof of a stable future floor. One paid job is evidence of that transaction, not of an indefinitely sustainable business.

Test a downside scenario: what changes if a customer leaves, payment is delayed or you cannot work? Record what would need to change before you would reconsider your employment decision.

Your private deliverable

  • A replacement budget based on actual costs.
  • An estimate of business revenue needed after expenses and tax.
  • A reserve and downside scenario.
  • A review date and the assumptions that remain untested.

Use the next lesson's planning checks to support a decision review. Reaching a number, completing this lesson or recording payments does not direct you to resign.

Keep invoices and identifiable payment records private. A public record may contain a non-sensitive summary. A self-reported entry is not independent payment verification; verified platform receipts also do not establish profit or future income.

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The number
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The bridge
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The gate
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The handover
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Day one
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06
Keep the resignation letter private
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