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This is the main reason I quit freelancing. Working 3-4 hours was great. Money was decent. There's groups for freelancers and solopreneurs and such. But they're
by muzani 1y ago
This is the main reason I quit freelancing. Working 3-4 hours was great. Money was decent. There's groups for freelancers and solopreneurs and such. But they're not on your side, they're just peers.
Eventually I think life stagnates. Working for a unicorn had its downs, but there's just something about working with people smarter than me. One thing I just hate about social media is having to explain everything. HN seems to get me, but not quite. In a top tier tech company, there would probably be 6 or so people who have done the same thing you're doing. And you can just sit around for hours debating the best way to design a table to store currencies and be paid a good sum for it. We can talk about insane things like testing in production, getting rid of feature flags, getting rid of documentation. Or just dumb things like Wordle solving algorithms. Someone will not only get it, they'd indulge you on it. But you'd need to hire some of the smartest people in a region and force them all to join the same Slack.
- meetingthrower 1y agoI FIREd and this is what I miss. Not a techie but a whitecollar job with a bunch of smart people. Miss that.
- xorvoid 1y agoSame. But I guess I’ve just accepted it and moved on. I’m willing to give that up for not having to give up 75% of my wake hours to a purely economic entity. I think I’m mostly surprised that so many smart/capable/successful people keep grinding long after they need to. And I’m sad that those of us that don’t have a harder time finding eachother because we don’t have a common career to put us in a room together constantly. Ah well. Wouldn’t trade any of the great adventures I’ve had for a job or a large sum of money. I’m happy with my trade.