I feel that this failure serve as a catalyst for moving on to something I always wanted to do. I am aware that I may be in a state of mind to look for escape. But I have no intention of running away -- unless I am fired early, I will finish and quit.
I have discuss this at length with my wife and family, and it's just a matter of doing it. A stable salary can be very comforting indeed.
The job comes with a lot of stress, more so than other companies I have been with or heard about, so I know this is not what I want moving forward. And I have a clear idea of what I want to do -- something like what you are doing, have a own products and sell them.
I'd be interested to hear from useful advice from you since you seem to have gone through this before and know more than me.
But I don't want to go through another round of this kind of crazy crunch. Maybe this is a kick in the back to launch myself. Or I might just be burn out and talk crazy. :-(
1. Get my ebooks published -- I have several work-in-progress ebooks on writing ebooks with free tools on net, how to get really cheap web hosting, and get started on cloud (EC2) for hostings.
2. Start freelancing on odesk, guru, freelancers etc
3. Publish my iphone games and android apps
4. Put my Saas bug trackers online for subscrption.
What do you think?
I think I screwed up big on a client's mobile project -- overdue and over budget. Personally I feel bad. My estimation has been way off and the product turn out to be way more complicated than anyone expected. Problem is, the client is waiting to launch and has investor lined up for the beta.<p>I have been working my ass off for the past few months on this, and now I am burn out and...