Im 15 ish years in. >> one-person company ... managing contractors. You're not a one person company if you have to manage contractors. One of the definitions

Im 15 ish years in. >> one-person company ... managing contractors. You're not a one person company if you have to manage contractors. One of the definitions of being a "contractor" is "independent work". Get better people who are self starers, or more motivated, or more flexible or... >> planning, development The lie corporate tech tells us is that these things are different jobs. You need to re-learn how to play. You're playing with code, and ideas and features. Play has a component that has learning build in. Learn to separate GROWING your business (development, new features) and running it (customer service, billing, accounting). Track your time into these two buckets and ask yourself if you're spending the right effort in the right places. Lastly. You're going to work hard, maybe harder than you ever have in your life. Sun up to sun set, and then some. You don't get to party, or vacation or socialize. If you want those sorts of things "get a job" if you want to build and own something then you're going to learn to eat that shit sandwich for a bit. It took me a few years for me to get to a stable place. There are moments where I have to put in the extra time, but they are very infrequent now and mostly include a massive pay day when they happen.