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* you don’t like your job
* you don’t want to be an employee
* you are a web developer technologist and open to continue working with those skills
Perhaps you could consider inventing a new technology/service for an existing business problem. This is the interest I am pursuing but I lack the business acumen to jump from software creation to market penetration.
I don’t have any suggestions on revenue streams, but reading your post, I can already feel how burnt out you are. You need a serious break away from your computer to clear your mind. I recently picked up biking and it has done wonders to my mental health. Try and recover first before pursuing anything else. I have been there before as well.
I rant into the same many years ago, pre family. My solution like yours was bicycle centric. I did a 2 month bike trip up the east coast US. Once hitting Maine I would take a bus for a while, and then ride a while. Really cleared my head and I was ready to get back into development. I would say I thought I was ready after hitting Maine, but the reality was I needed the 2, well more like 3 months break.
It isn’t clear from this thread or your comment history on why you feel burnt out. All I can gather is: * you don’t like your job * you don’t want to be an employee * you are a web developer technologist and open to continue working with those skills Perhaps you could consider inventing a new technology/service for an existing business problem. This is the interest I am pursuing but I lack the business acumen to jump…
Consider what I am considering: selling stuff on eBay / Amazon / shopify. If I am successful it’s bye bye to sprints, estimation and head scratching through legacy code and also needing to live in a city with the associated expense when there are cheap places to live with beaches!
I don’t have any suggestions on revenue streams, but reading your post, I can already feel how burnt out you are. You need a serious break away from your computer to clear your mind. I recently picked up biking and it has done wonders to my mental health. Try and recover first before pursuing anything else. I have been there before as well.
It isn’t clear from this thread or your comment history on why you feel burnt out. All I can gather is: * you don’t like your job * you don’t want to be an employee * you are a web developer technologist and open to continue working with those skills Perhaps you could consider inventing a new technology/service for an existing business problem. This is the interest I am pursuing but I lack the business acumen to jump…
Hmm perhaps it isn't in my comments... thought I had talked about it with this account. I was doing 60 to 80 hour work weeks until the last few months which turned into 100 hour work weeks (3am start time, phased sleep, working weekends). This was all for a covid19 start up.
If you don’t want to be an employee then you need to build a team.
Consider what I am considering: selling stuff on eBay / Amazon / shopify. If I am successful it’s bye bye to sprints, estimation and head scratching through legacy code and also needing to live in a city with the associated expense when there are cheap places to live with beaches!
This is an interesting idea. I don't want to just scrape by though, I'd like to use the skills I've acquired over the years to do something that doesn't involve being a full time employee for a company.
Make sure you really like what you are doing. Also it will take time before you make any money from it.
1. Portrait Photography - lots of fun, you meet great people. Cons are that as an introvert, selling myself and then helping client pose during photoshoot was very draining. Then it was selling time for dollars, maybe one day you can charge $5000 per shoot but most likely you will not create decent wealth for your kids.
2. Real Estate Agent - again lots of fun exploring new places, and meeting great people. But unlikely photoshoots, buying home is very stressful, you will absorb client's stress, and of course so much paperwork and deadlines. I never got started properly. But helped a few friends and it was very stressful experience. Again introvert issues with selling myself to strangers.
Then I have had some ideas and tried/half-assed these:
1. Writing fiction - seems like a great idea but it is really hard to write.
2. Fitness blog/spam - I started with a blog sharing fitness tips and workout and motivational videos. Eventually, there was very little original content, it was just embedded YouTube/Instagram videos. It was generating lunch money with affiliate links and ads, but I felt sleazy, especially, when most of the content on the blog was girls in bikinis or yoga pants. (Men's videos were not that popular). As I got old, I didn't want to do this.
3. Tutoring for devs - Still working on this, started informally where I help my friends with the dev problems they are stuck at work. Working on getting paid clients. It is kind of hard because some people just want you to do their work and I don't want to do that. Then there is issue of security. I don't want to get in any trouble but looking at private code of some company.
4. Related to tutoring, I try to blog about every topic I help someone with. Not getting any traffic. Not sure how to compete with SO.
I am not really sure what my next steps should be, I have tried so many things, people don't really take me seriously anymore. I am really looking for something that I can do online without selling to friends and family. Makes me feel like the bad guy from the Founder.