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Do you have no life because you work in a startup or...
... do you work in a startup because you have no life?
- donna 19y agoi create life working with my startup
- iamyoohoo 19y agowhy the question ?
- vuknje 19y agonot sure.. i guess i'm in some bad period (after five months of hard work) when i'm not sure of myself.. :(
- palish 19y agoHard things are sometimes good, but could you sidestep whatever it is that's holding you up? Maybe look at the problem from a different angle. Keep fighting!
- huherto 19y agoJust keep going. It is hard but you must keep going. Good luck!
- rokhayakebe 19y agoI know the feeling. You may feel like shit, but wait until you stop working and you will soon feel dead. I rather feel shitty than dead. you know that songs that goes like "don't stop. believe it....."
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- gscott 19y agoOne good thing about developing and making products yourself is that you can give those ideas time to develop. User feedback is key, I find if I just keep on doing what the users asks for then the product just gets better. They think of ideas I never would have.
- rokhayakebe 19y agoa startup is your life buddy. Anything else you do is considered as an escape from that life. Some escapes are nice (like when you have sex or go for a walk or drink) and some suck (like when you go to your day job)
- siliconeurope 19y agoit's a chain reaction. one thing affects the other one!
- NoMoreSnow 19y agoOftentimes, working/thinking about my startup consumes my attention, such that my wife thinks I don't care about anything else... I find it hard to understand why other people just don't "get it" when it comes to entrepreneurship.
- donna 19y agoyes, my partner feels all i do is work work work. Always telling me to plan other things like vacations, or dates out. This has been a real drain on the relationship. However, i'm noticing that if i communicate more about what i'm working on every day, it smooths things over, and the same goes for friends and family.
- omouse 19y agoIt's the same with other things that you're passionate about. Your mind gets used to thinking about it and you don't even notice that it consumes all of your attention. I'm sure your wife has something that she's very into but you just don't get/understand/grok.
- epi0Bauqu 19y ago"Having a life" is overrated.
- mikesabat 19y agohaha great question. I had a great situation early in the summer. My apartment has a great deck and we would have parties 3-4 nights a week. At that point I was working on my startup, well, not very much. In mid-July they started doing construction and we can't have any more parties for now. So I went in full time startup mode. My "life" is definitely on hold for a bit, but hopefully it is the jumpstart that I need to really get things moving.
- portLAN 19y agoA life spent creating is preferable to a life spent consuming.
- samson 19y agoI'm not sure how much my experience can relate to yours,but after thinking about your question for a while I personally found there's nothing I'd rather be doing more right now at the age of 22 then working on my startup. I guess to answer your question. Its impossible for me to not have a life because of it, since right now it is my life.
- joe 19y agoYes. And "having a life" is overrated, as was noted already. I work 4-5 hours a day on a startup project, and another 4+ on a "real" job to pay the bills. However, I still find plenty of time to spend on things other than work, whether it be personal project/hobbies/self-improvement, or hanging out with friends. So I may or may not have a life, depending on what standard you're measuring by. But I'm happy.
- myoung8 19y agoI've been working on a startup with a friend while we're both interning at different companies in Seattle. It's definitely been hard because we basically work for 8 hours, then come home, eat, and work for another 4 or 5 on our startup. Honestly, though, that's what I want to be doing. Seeing this thing come together actually makes me happy and gets me excited. It's been a rollercoaster though, some days are awful--like when we don't make any progress. We make sure to take breaks often enough. We usually play a level of Halo on legendary or go see a movie (Superbad is hilarious!) when we need one. All I can say is never give up. You will regret it more than you can possibly comprehend.
- Harj 19y agothe former.
- augustus 19y agoyou know what? I feel sorry for employees who work their whole life for companies and then suddenly find themselves laid off. The initial hardwork is nothing compared to the great life ahead once we make it!!!