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Re:Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stress... by jborden13 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @02:07PM (#7043384)
I've got a team of 40+ (50% remote) with management for the stables, and I still work just as hard as when it was just me and my dog. But my end game isn't to lead by vacation, it's to drive this fucking company forward. I can't tell if you're doing it right, doing it wrong, hubris, a noob, or simply just awesomer than myself.

I think it's good to have a positive attitude, but I've been grinding for 8 years (the filling in my cookie sandwich is getting pretty thick) and maintaining a constant positive perspective is an impossibility.

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Re:Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stress... by 31reasons on Saturday January 11, 2014 @03:06PM (#7043557)
Is it worth it ?
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Re:Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stress... by jborden13 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @05:37PM (#7044062)
An impossible question to answer - changes by the minute, it seems. When we get to finish line, I hope to have a positive answer. Will always beat a real job tho...
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Re:Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stress... by ChrisNorstrom on Saturday January 11, 2014 @06:51PM (#7044366)
"real job", ha you mean a "normal job" the kind people like us can't stand working.
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Re:Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stress... by jborden13 on Sunday January 12, 2014 @12:05AM (#7045222)
Exactly. I was always an exemplary employee, but always had an underlining annoyance with myself because I was wasting what little time I have on this planet building somebody else's business - made me sick. So did everything I could to get and stay out.
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