I was about your age when I founded a startup about 8-9 years ago . One thing I did was never went to a full time job and the safety of regular an income . I to

I was about your age when I founded a startup about 8-9 years ago . One thing I did was never went to a full time job and the safety of regular an income . I took freelancing jobs and consulted few odd jobs for about 2 years as I worked to getting a MVP out and get seed funding . I did have student loans pretty much like anybody else , and it wasn’t easy certainly . Trying to balance working on consulting gigs and building your app at that age there is lot to learn to become better developer and also figure out how a startup works is hard. My reasoning was financially the older you become more it harder to quit a full time job and do what you want. A house mortgage , family, kids their education etc keep adding up , your lifestyle may make it hard to quit . The downside to the approach knowledge and experience helps a lot . While I learn a lot fast, with my current understanding I could perhaps do what took 5-6 years in a year or two. However I don’t think I would get remotely same knowledge had I not been working under that kind of pressure . Would I do it again ? I don’t know. I did a miss lot of typical twenties life , most of my peers / friends are in very different stages of life then I am : financially stable , found their life partners, have kids and settled down on life goals on what they want to do. While my startup is doing pretty well , until there is an exit , financially I am probably not far a fresh graduate, never could spend time in relationships , this despite being perhaps one of lucky ones still in the game and part of something fairly successful, there are many founders who had to face hard truths and try to get back to regular jobs or dig deeper and deeper in still lost in their ideas and having lot tougher time than me.