Re:Ask HN: Entrepreneurship to escape depression?
by rl3 on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:11PM
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Think of starting a startup as a long road trip where everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Now imagine you have an emotional gas tank, and there's a really long distance between gas stations. If you start your journey out with your emotional gas tank near empty, you're probably not going to make it.
A startup will only amplify your depression, and when that happens you'll find yourself slowly pushing the rest of the way instead of driving.
Source: someone who went that route primarily out of having nothing to lose, almost five years ago.
Now imagine you have an emotional gas tank, and there's a really long distance between gas stations. If you start your journey out with your emotional gas tank near empty, you're probably not going to make it.
A startup will only amplify your depression, and when that happens you'll find yourself slowly pushing the rest of the way instead of driving.
Source: someone who went that route primarily out of having nothing to lose, almost five years ago.