I worked 80 hours per week for 7 years straight. At one point I was juggling full time university with a full time job and an open source project on the side.

I worked 80 hours per week for 7 years straight. At one point I was juggling full time university with a full time job and an open source project on the side. My grades suffered, the startup I worked for failed, my open source project failed. I did manage to graduate though. Then I started another open source project, worked on it for 2 years, it also failed because of tough competition. So then I started yet another open source project and finally it did well and people seem to like it (almost 4k stars on Github) - It's been 3 years. I was working full time the entire time and I was exhausted all the time. There is no point complaining about your situation because there is always someone who has it worse than you. You have to learn that nobody cares and nobody will try to help you - I think this is the right way. I personally don't mind the struggle but I hate to see people getting easy exits because someone wants to protect someone else's feelings. Nobody deserves anything. I wish more people would understand how it really works and you can only get that from continuous failure over many years. It gives you a more accurate feeling for what the odds really are.