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I am in a similar situation, but attacked it from a different direction. We are almost ramen profitable, and built our company (http://codiqa.com/ http://codiqa

I am in a similar situation, but attacked it from a different direction. We are almost ramen profitable, and built our company (http://codiqa.com/ http://codiqa.com/) almost exclusively while working 9-5 jobs. We'd work 9-5 then come home and work four hours a night, sometimes more. We did that for several months before we launched in February of this year. I don't sacrifice personal time, and we are still growing. Granted, we are young and have very few obligations, but it works. We have never taken on client work, but it's definitely an option should we need to. The point is, I don't agree you have to sacrifice personal time to be successful. I think it's very healthy to have things outside of work, if only because it makes you do the work that's most important when you are working. That being said, I probably work way more than I realize, because it's not really work to me.

LeFever 14y ago
Absolutely. We started out in very similar fashion, working on our product on the side and only quitting our day jobs when we absolutely had to to progress further. For the first two months we regularly put in at least 12 hours a day seven days a week. We progressed, but towards the end of it we were barely recognizable. The amount of stress it put on us, our family, and our friends was immense. I'd drag myself to a bar to see friends and I'd spend most of the time zoning out, thinking about what I needed to work on as soon as I was back at home. We've since forced ourselves to adopt a more structured approach, and factored in time to go fishing, play snooker, sing karaoke, or just relax. We're still working like crazy, but with a little bit of balance it no longer feels like the drudgery it had become before.