Start today: buy your own domain name and sign up to an email provider with it. It does not take long to set up, but make sure you have auto renewal enabled to protect yourself.
What takes a long time is notifying everyone you want to continue being able to communicate with of your new email address.
What takes a long time is notifying everyone you want to continue being able to communicate with of your new email address.
Yeah, this is the most annoying part by far
That and services that don’t let you change your email to migrate to a new one.