Woman quits $125K corporate job, now writes huge cheques as transfers fail

Making $125,000 a year is quite a comfortable place to be for most people. That’s a number most people never say out loud, let alone on camera. Alex Petrakieva said it anyway. In fact, she quit the lucrative job, and now she earns twice as much. By May, she wrote herself two $100,000 cheques.She quit her $125k jobAlex Petrakieva, a Chicago-based UX designer, revealed how she left her high-paying job for an ‘experiment’. Today, that leap of faith helps her make double the money.In a video shared on Instagram, Petrakieva spoke about how she spent years in corporate UX content design before she walked away. By her own account, the role paid $125,000 a year. Good money, steady work, the kind of job most people don't quit on a whim. But she left anyway and turned to content creation.