'Stress was not sustainable': 33-year-old former Deloitte consultant explains why she left the technical work for jewelry companies

Jessica Yen, 33, was once a consultant at Deloitte and also served in many other similar roles, but has now transferred to entrepreneurship and driving surfers, an e-commerce platform built for surfers. Yen set out her transition from her corporate work to entrepreneurship in an essay for Business Insider. Straight from UCLA In 2014, Jessica began her career as a technology analyst at Deloitte. However, the work at Deloitte was not as glamorous as she hoped, and it involved a two -hour drive in the traffic of San Francisco to Walnut Creek every day. “In consultation, you do not have much control over what projects you are working, and I realized that I was saying more in my career,” Yen wrote. Yen then started an interview with an interview with technical roles in San Francisco and awarded her first data roll as a marketing analyst at Salesforce in 2016. Salesforce characterized her introduction to data analysis, and she quickly realized that marketing was not her long-term focus and moved in business operations. After Salesforce, Yen joined Yelp in a role in business and strategy analysis. She later joined the self-managed carstart cruise in 2019 that she said she was more closely similar to her interest in people and decision-making. However, after seven years in the high-voltage field of data analysis, Yen was exhausted and realized that that level of tension was not sustainable for her. “Everyone wants your time and expects you to build dashboards, often with quick turnaround. You are not only responsible for the work, but also for its absolute accuracy. I will have dashboards tested and arrived early to host the executives and walk them through what the information means and how to act on it. The game felt high, ‘she wrote. Transition to Entrepreneurship: While he was still working at Cruise, Yen enrolled for a coaching program in the Bay area and certified and started customers on the side. In August 2020 she left cruise and wanted a break from corporate life while coaching full -time. She launched her first product business in December 2020 named ‘Daily Work Journal’, which also acted as her first trip to e-commerce. She run the company until January 2024 before selling it. She then started surfers and is now completely focused on her e-commerce business. I had confidence in my ability to manage it because it is based on e-commerce, like my journal brand. ‘I always advise prospective entrepreneurs to have a corporate career before they hit their own. Whatever you specialize, your lead becomes an entrepreneur, ‘she wrote.