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Ask HN: Founders, what's your lifestyle like?
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#2Bad: I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Good: On something I like to do.
Bad: Have to keep most customers happy. Good: Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.
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#3Brute, austere, spartan on one side and counter-tempered with persistence, determination and long-term grit. On the other side, it's like living in a dimension outside of space, time, matter, mass and gravity.
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#4Bad: I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. Good: On something I like to do. Bad: Have to keep most customers happy. Good: Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.
Exactly right.
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#5All in all, I love it.
I am living off what I made with my last startup and work fulltime on my new startup. Most days I jump out of the bed and start working 7am in the morning. And often I am still working at midnight.
The one thing that bugs me: I decided to not travel until my current venture is making 5 figures per month. I miss traveling. I am looking forward to the time when money is pouring in again and I can take a one way flight to wherever I like. And stay in some comfortable airbnb apartment or upper class hotel room for as long as I like. That's what I was doing when my last startup was flourishing. Now that I am living off my savings it would feel somehow wrong to do that.
I can relate to bionic's description "living in a dimension outside of space, time, matter, mass and gravity". It's all my own rules. My own goals. My own story that nobody around me can relate to.
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#6Bad: I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. Good: On something I like to do. Bad: Have to keep most customers happy. Good: Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.
So it sounds like every corporate job I'be ever had. Except more upside. The downside is you might have to get a corporate job if you fail.
Although I would love to be able to fire a few customers but I'm sure my benefits are probably better if you are early stage. I actually had better healthcare before acquisition. Which suprised me.
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#7Bad: I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. Good: On something I like to do. Bad: Have to keep most customers happy. Good: Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.
"Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself."
Working in customer support I can tell that you Sir, are living the dream.
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#8Very similar lifestyle as when I was a student - small apartment, eat in most days... but couldn't be more satisfied with my "job" :=)
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#10Very similar lifestyle as when I was a student - small apartment, eat in most days... but couldn't be more satisfied with my "job" :=)
What stage are you in? early days?