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She was earning ₹1 lakh/month as a tax lawyer. Then she quit for a ₹10,000 gig
Mehar Verma transitioned from a tax lawyer to a successful content creator, earning double her previous salary while enjoying her work and personal freedom.
A content creator and social media strategist has opened up about her journey from a salaried employee who lived for the weekends to a self-employed professional who has time for her hobbies besides work. Mehar Verma shared an Instagram post remembering how she quit her job as a tax lawyer to become a full-time content creator.
Verma revealed that she used to earn ₹1 lakh per month as a lawyer. Today, three years later, she is a content creator and social media strategist who earns double the amount.
The 27-year-old acknowledged that quitting her stable job was a risky decision, but it ultimately paid off.
Quitting a stable job
“In 2023, I was earning ₹1 lakh/month as a tax lawyer. For my first job, it was everything I thought I wanted,” she wrote on Instagram, saying that the job gave her financial independence and the company was good.
Despite this, she soon realised that she had begun to dread Mondays.
“A few months in, I realised I was living for Saturdays and Sundays. I dreaded Monday mornings,” she revealed. “Somewhere in between all of that, I had discovered something I genuinely enjoyed creating content.”
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Verma said that she first tried to juggle her full-time job with content creation. She did a photography course on weekends to improve her content. Eventually, she started applying for creative roles but kept getting rejected.
“Then, in January 2024, I somehow landed my first freelance gig,” she recalled.
The gig would pay her ₹10,000 to create 7 to 8 videos and shoot some product photos. Verma decided to quit her stable law job.
A decision that paid rich dividends
Mehar Verma acknowledged that quitting her ₹1 lakh per month job for a gig paying ₹10,000 was not the most reasonable decision. However, it led her down a path that would eventually pay rich dividends.
“Going from a ₹1 lakh salary to a ₹10,000 gig probably wasn’t the most sensible reason to quit a job. But I did,” she said.
She explained that she would never try if she kept waiting for the right time to quit — and so she took the plunge.
To make it as a content creator, she put in hard work — posting content on Instagram every single day, learning photography and strategy, watching videos and reading books to improve her knowledge and more.
“I gave myself a year. I started posting on Instagram every single day. I learned editing. Storytelling. Photography. UGC. Strategy,” said Verma. “I watched endless YouTube videos, took courses, read books, reached out to people, pitched brands and slowly started getting freelance clients.”
“And eventually, I was earning more than twice what I used to make as a lawyer,” said Verma.
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Then vs now
In her post, she said that today she earns in six figures, loves her work, has the freedom to travel, time for her hobbies and that her “life is good”.
In spite of this, she is “nowhere near where I want to be.”
Verma explained that content creation does not guarantee a steady paycheck. Some months are good, and others not so much. “Clients still come and go… Some videos blow up, others flop. Some days I feel like I’m killing it, and some days I question everything.”
However, she is sure of the fact that she is moving in the right direction.
“For the first time in my life, I feel like I’m moving in the right direction. For the first 24 years of my life, even while studying for the career I thought I wanted, I never really had that feeling. Now I do. I don’t have my life figured out. I just finally feel like I’m building a life that feels like mine,” the 27-year-old concluded.
