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Good advice that I need to heed. But what about if first-to-market is the difference between success and failure? What if you really really need to put in 60 h

• wccrawford 15y ago
  Then there's a good chance you will burn out. You have to balance the risk of burnout with the risk of failure. It comes down to how much you value your daily happiness vs future happiness. Personally, my father valued his future happiness more and worked himself half to death until retirement. At which point, he had money, but all the rest of his plans fell apart. Now, I can't say he's happier than when he was working. I've gone the other direction. My work is fun, my rest is fun, my fun is fun. I make decent money, but I'll never be as important to a company as my dad was. And he was that important to quite a few companies. Literally saving them from bankruptcy. A part of me wants those kind of tales to tell when I'm old, and the money that goes along with it... But I know better than to give up my short and medium term happiness to do it.
  • Hisoka 15y ago
    But that's different. He's waiting until retirement. I'm not planning to wait that long - that's just silly. I'm saying 2 years of delayed gratification at most.