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> If you want freedom, you don't need a business. Just a good enough day job. Then you can do anything you want to do when you're not working the day job. I wi
by deanmoriarty 3y ago
> If you want freedom, you don't need a business. Just a good enough day job. Then you can do anything you want to do when you're not working the day job.
I wish it was like that. My ideal “job” would have:
- No or minimal interaction with coworkers, I really want my days to be mostly solo work. I don’t care much if it’s toil work or if it has a massive amount of responsibilities attached, but I need to be solo. No team meetings, no random people (who are not paying me) demanding my time on chat, no physical or timezone-bound presence required.
- Absolutely no management or supervision. No 1:1s and all that crap.
- Ability to leverage the results of my work: if I do a piece of work that unlocks 10 customer deals, I want to be rewarded with a portion of the revenues from those customers. I don’t want to be paid a salary and be rewarded with even more work. It’s embarrassing.
Sounds unreasonable? A solo business would check all the boxes. All the people in my network who went the business owner route had mostly similar reasons. It’s really about owning your time, your work and its full leverage potential. These things are fundamentally at odds with any subordinate employment contract.
> This seems like a sketch of what a good enough day job might be.
I feel I could afford it at my current financial state, for a happier life.
> Do you think building another corporation is the best way for you to shake that feeling?
Yes, absolutely. I would be building a corporation where every single win I manage to get is a leverage for my own future. It’s a completely different dynamic than being a corporate cog.
- mattbrewsbytes 3y agoSo in your ideal job you have no coworkers and no management/supervision, and no team meetings. What exactly would you be building where your independent/solo piece of work unlocks 10 customer deals if you have zero interactions with anyone at the company? * Who is defining what needs to be done? * Are you talking directly to customers to learn what they want, negotiate features and schedules, iteratively build it, get feedback and release? * Are you working on their billing issues, help requests and bug fixes independently as well? * What about marketing, status pages, monitoring systems, etc?
- deanmoriarty 3y agoExactly, this just proves that there is no job that meets my definition of "freedom". My list was a direct response to: "If you want freedom, you don't need a business. Just a good enough day job.". That statement is flawed for my definition of "freedom". Freedom, in my opinion, is what another commenter in this thread wrote: > I consider it one of the greatest blessings in my life. Dealing only with customers and code means no bullshit, only the pure joy of actual work, plus the freedom and independence...
- mattbrewsbytes 3y agoYou have FU money saved, or rather, enough where you could live in a mid-sized US city in perpetuity off the interest on $4.5m - assume 5% per year on that and its $225k without touching the base. You could literally quit and just start throwing spaghetti at the wall until you see what sticks (try 1 idea per month or two). You already have freedom sitting there.
- brudgers 3y agoI suspect as a general rule, avoiding personal interactions with others probably correlates negatively with successfully running a business. With the clarification that owning a business is not the same as running a business.
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