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working at a startup :(

• bluefish 17y ago
  Why working at a startup? You have an image of an ideal that may be a fallacy. I work at a startup and it's not all fun and games. 1) It's a lot of work, 2) there is a lot of bureaucratic red tape (just like any real world business environment) 3) startups are more fluid and flexible, meaning they can succeed quickly, but fail just as fast. My point being that it's not fun to watch your friends get fired because the startup suddenly cannot pay them anymore. Perhaps what you meant was "Working on my startup." To which I would agree. If I could be doing anything right now it would be working on my own projects and working towards being able to sustain myself through the application of my own skills. Perhaps that's not what you meant, but heed my warning, startups are not a panacea for programmers.
• stewiecat 17y ago
  same here. Instead I read HN and try to not work on side projects while being bored at work.
  • cubedice 17y ago
    Me too. But why not work on side projects if you're bored? I'm building a web site in my downtime (compiling, honest! :p). Might as well plan for the future if you're not happy with the present
    • stewiecat 17y ago
      legal issues. The company owns the idea and the product if I thought of it/worked on it on their time/equipment. I do play around with new languages/libs/tools/etc. though.
      • akkartik 17y ago
        In the past I would build stuff and rapidly open source it. One of those cases where it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, I figure. If you're not looking to profit from it most companies don't care to come after you.