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Good things happen when you put everything aside and really focus on getting Version 1.0 done. Imagine what you can do if you did that for 3 months and had YC's

by jkush 19y ago

Good things happen when you put everything aside and really focus on getting Version 1.0 done. Imagine what you can do if you did that for 3 months and had YC's advice.

palish 19y ago
Right! When you're moonlighting, it's difficult running on 6 hours sleep each day while managing 2 projects. Being able to focus on one thing 24/7 would be great.
- jkush 19y ago
  Exactly.
- adamdoupe 19y ago
  After working 8 hours, I end up avoiding working on my website. Instead I end up playing wow or watching TV. I long for school to start so I have more free time.
  - far33d 19y ago
    You have more free time in school than you do at your job? School was way more time consuming for me.
    - palish 19y ago
      The draining part of work is the fact that you have people expecting you to get X done absolutely as fast as you can, recurse with Y. And the micromanagement. By the end of the day it's mentally draining. At school, nobody cares whether you do anything. And when you do something, it's by your own decision. I mean, I know you decide to do something at work, but.. It's hard to put into specific words. School lays all its expectations out in front of you; work shoves them down your throat.
    - Goladus 19y ago
      If free time is "time not spent on a fixed schedule" then I tended to have more in college, even as a double-major taking an overload of classes. If free time is "time not spent working" then it's a toss-up.
  - palish 19y ago
    What works for me is, while I'm at work I think of one little feature I want to accomplish. Then when I come home I immediately work on that feature, telling myself "When it's done I can take a break". Then I never take a break because I get so involved. It's so satisfying watching a project come together and become polished and pretty that once I start polishing, I don't want to stop.
  - jmzachary 19y ago
    Same here. The trick is to start to care less about the day job and more about the real job. Start to think about the day job as a contracting/consulting gig to support R&D. That's how I generate motivation, even though I know I have a mortgage to pay.

by jkush 19y ago

Good things happen when you put everything aside and really focus on getting Version 1.0 done. Imagine what you can do if you did that for 3 months and had YC's advice.

palish 19y ago

Right! When you're moonlighting, it's difficult running on 6 hours sleep each day while managing 2 projects. Being able to focus on one thing 24/7 would be great.

jkush 19y ago
Exactly.
adamdoupe 19y ago
After working 8 hours, I end up avoiding working on my website. Instead I end up playing wow or watching TV. I long for school to start so I have more free time.
- far33d 19y ago
  You have more free time in school than you do at your job? School was way more time consuming for me.
  - palish 19y ago
    The draining part of work is the fact that you have people expecting you to get X done absolutely as fast as you can, recurse with Y. And the micromanagement. By the end of the day it's mentally draining. At school, nobody cares whether you do anything. And when you do something, it's by your own decision. I mean, I know you decide to do something at work, but.. It's hard to put into specific words. School lays all its expectations out in front of you; work shoves them down your throat.
  - Goladus 19y ago
    If free time is "time not spent on a fixed schedule" then I tended to have more in college, even as a double-major taking an overload of classes. If free time is "time not spent working" then it's a toss-up.
- palish 19y ago
  What works for me is, while I'm at work I think of one little feature I want to accomplish. Then when I come home I immediately work on that feature, telling myself "When it's done I can take a break". Then I never take a break because I get so involved. It's so satisfying watching a project come together and become polished and pretty that once I start polishing, I don't want to stop.
- jmzachary 19y ago
  Same here. The trick is to start to care less about the day job and more about the real job. Start to think about the day job as a contracting/consulting gig to support R&D. That's how I generate motivation, even though I know I have a mortgage to pay.