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We are both married with kids, so I definitely have to manage my time correctly. Sorry if it wasn’t clear, we were thinking of doing contract work until we bui

We are both married with kids, so I definitely have to manage my time correctly. Sorry if it wasn’t clear, we were thinking of doing contract work until we built up enough money, and then quit the contracting business and work full time on the startup. At least for me, there’s no way I can hold two full-time jobs, it would eat into my family time too much.

poulsbohemian 4y ago
>we were thinking of doing contract work until we built up enough money, and then quit the contracting business and work full time on the startup. Awesome if you can do that. It's possible I never had the network I needed to really thrive, but the few people I saw do really well in contracting were parma-temps, IE: they basically left their previous full-time jobs and became full-time contractors to those jobs. My own experiences over roughly a decade were that you can spend a whole lot of time having to chase the next client, and just when you think you are starting to really set aside some good money here comes another little downturn or break between projects. Keeping your day job and finding ways to get the product bootstrapped on the side is hard work, but I've seen more people find success that path. Frankly, the most successful people I've seen already had a nest egg from hitting the birth lottery or from a windfall in their day jobs.