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Here comes an unpopular opinion: Learn from it and act on it. If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job.
by TekMol 5y ago
Here comes an unpopular opinion: Learn from it and act on it.
If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job.
Stop wasting your time. Go to twitter and search for '#buildinpublic'. Follow the journeys of other people for a while. It does not need a hundred million dollar company to outperform a regular job. It just needs a nice online product that brings in more than a job.
Check out this essay by Paul Graham:
http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html
His summary of life: "Don't be a cog".
You still have all the options to not be a cog.
- skeeter2020 5y ago>> If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job. Which I (genuinely) assume you are. The reality is far more nuanced than this. Building a "nice online product that brings in more than a job" is the non-trivial lede that you buried in there, and everyone working a job is not wasting their time working a job as a cog.
- TekMol 5y agoYes, it is non-trivial. But a job is non-trivial as well. So many hours of your life go into it. Over so many years.
- john_yaya 5y agoYou don’t even have to be young, necessarily. In fact being an “older” person in tech probably means you’ve built up a wealth of experience, and a cushion of resources for getting your business started.