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> Get a well-paying engineering job I'll probably hate, because money, quality of life, and sanity all have instrumental value. Hopefully keep the fire alive du
by ssivark 7y ago
> Get a well-paying engineering job I'll probably hate, because money, quality of life, and sanity all have instrumental value. Hopefully keep the fire alive during this period.
Based on what I've observed and heard in discussions (both IRL and on HN), keeping the fire alive over the years is a significant challenge. One key ingredient to that is finding the right community/people for healthy feedback (both positive and negative, as appropriate, over years).
- rl3 7y agoFor sure. I'm fortunate to at least have a couple friends I can bounce anything off, even if it's just talking to myself sometimes. As far as keeping the fire alive, I've had little trouble thus far. In fact, the fire's done nothing but increase in intensity for the most part. However when you have a lot of free time, that's perhaps natural. Being too tired to do anything else outside of job and a long-overdue social/romantic life is a very real concern. The other side of that coin is grinding to a halt on startup progress because my personal life is in tatters. I suppose it's like anything else, where you make time for whatever is most important and practice effective time management. Arguably the more ambition you have, the better your time management must be. Which is ironic because some of the best ideation and thinking in my experience has come from a lack of structure. Then again, no reason one can't schedule unstructured thinking time when needed.
- ssivark 7y agoLol, I feel ya! I’d love to chat more if you’re interested (e-mail on my HN profile)