Re:Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers
by Nursie on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:38PM
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>> A year or two of super-long hours to free yourself from the dayjob, or just working 40 hours a week for someone else until you're too old to do it anymore?
False dichotomy, there are other life choices. I'm a freelancer and I maintain a good income and a healthy work/life balance.
I also don't believe it to be 'a year or two'.
>> I'm in the same boat, doing a spare-time startup while holding a day job. And I"m not young - my kids are grown.
Then you're in a different situation than the OP, IIRC.
>> Getting rich is a nice side effect, but the heart of it for me, and for a lot of others, is personal freedom.
This is why I like freelancing/contracting/consultancy. The money is good and the freedom is unparalleled.
Re:Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers
by beat on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:28PM
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I'm a contractor, but I don't feel free. Still stuck working in someone else's environment. I could push farther into freelancing I suppose, but it's not the same.
Part of my motivation is that I'd like to build the biggest thing I could possibly build. I'm not going to accomplish that in the straitjacket of someone else's big enterprise project.
I'm in the same boat, doing a spare-time startup while holding a day job. And I"m not young - my kids are grown. But I'm paying for their college, so I can't just quit and do the startup full-time, not until I've got it generating at least a little cashflow.
The trick is to overwork but try to get on the shortest (leanest) path to revenue.
But keep in mind that not everyone is doing a startup to get rich. Getting rich is a nice side effect, but the heart of it for me, and for a lot of others, is personal freedom.