@dworrad, I'll admit I suffer from the same illness as you. It's good that you wrote it all down, because I couldn't believe how closely our lives match and th

@dworrad, I'll admit I suffer from the same illness as you. It's good that you wrote it all down, because I couldn't believe how closely our lives match and that tells me something. If you are able to write some that hits close enough to my home, then that must mean it is going to hit home for a great many other people as well. Nobody ever said entrepreneurship is easy. The $1B buyouts that you hear about on HN are exceptional, win-the-lottery type of occurrences, whereas the greater number of people simply win small amounts or nothing at all. But as long as you feel like you've grown as a person and, more importantly, pass that knowledge down to your kids, maybe it won't be so bad. I wasn't raised with an entrepreneur mindset. My father worked salary all his life, so while that paid off for him, the same didn't/doesn't work for me. I have to be the trailblazer in my family and learn all this from scratch. My hope is that I can blaze that trail well enough so that my children have an easier time. If that's the case, then maybe they will be $1B successful or, at the very least, not have to toil away 8 hours a day in exchange for money.