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Re: Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

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Post by wglb »

cdr wrote: post #37
nicpottier wrote: post #18

For all those reading this thinking, man, I could never do this or be successful at my own business, follow his advice, JUST DO IT! It isn't that hard, it is especially not that hard if you approach it like he did and grow very slowly and keep your costs down. I did the same thing with my best friend years ago, starting off while still having a job, then making a leap when things were slightly vetted. Best decision o…

Actually, I found patio11's background to be generally pretty average and unexceptional - I was thinking "if he can do it, anyone can". (no offense intended to patio11:)

Ah, but if you met him - - - you might think a little differently.

Although, the number of people that I know that learned Japanese in America is, like, two. I would say that makes him exceptional in that regard.

Re: Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

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Post by loewenskind »

Poiesis wrote: post #50
loewenskind wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. And what's more, marriage and raising a child both take a lot of time. I often don't even open my laptop at home because I just don't have the time. Personally, I realized that (a) I can't live with the idea of working at a big corp until I retire and (b) if I wish to remain married and connect with my kids (you only have 10 years!) I don't have the time to do this on the side. Given those two truths I decide…

Personally, I figure that if I stay at $BIGCORP I will have far less time to connect with my kids--over the long term--than if I work for myself. I might have to front-load the time a bit as I get set up but this is not a given, given the small hourly commitments possible. But the "free" healthcare makes it a tough decision.

Working as a permi this is certainly the case, but if you can get your living costs down and work on a more ad hoc basis (i.e. contracting or consulting) then you can take big blocks of time off to use as you see fit.

Personally I wouldn't want to work in the US right now. The worker protections are practically non-existent (advantageous if you own a company but if you work for one, not so much).

Health care has always been problematic in the US but I suspect by your comment you mean that you don't like that you have to have it now. Not having insurance would be an insane level of risk to put on your family (especially when coupled with the risk of a start up). One of the bigger mistakes the US did with health care IMO was letting companies pay it for the employees. That creates a terrible lock in incentive and removes health care from the person's budget so when you do wish to try something else (e.g. a start up) you're not prepared for the sudden jump in expenses.

Re: Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

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Post by dublinclontarf »

patio11 wrote: post #41
cdr wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, I found patio11's background to be generally pretty average and unexceptional - I was thinking "if he can do it, anyone can". (no offense intended to patio11:)

None taken. I agree with "anyone can do this", with the proviso that it really helps if you can do at least one kind of programming and enjoy learning things.

Never give up, never surrender!

Re: Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

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Post by synchromesh »

loewenskind wrote: post #29
gruseom wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that sentence is unfair. If you have a job and small children, it's easy to be so exhausted after putting them to bed that there is no energy left to think about anything important. It's true of course that children are the handiest excuse around. But it's also true that once you start down the job-and-family highway it can be exceedingly difficult to get onto an exit. The implication here -- that if you're n…

Agreed. And what's more, marriage and raising a child both take a lot of time. I often don't even open my laptop at home because I just don't have the time. Personally, I realized that (a) I can't live with the idea of working at a big corp until I retire and (b) if I wish to remain married and connect with my kids (you only have 10 years!) I don't have the time to do this on the side. Given those two truths I decide…

I'm with you for (a) and (b). The other thing I've found working as a consultant (well, an "off-site contractor" anyway) is that the freedom from "office hours" means I can structure my working day around time with my young kids (i.e. three meals with them and then working on into the evening) and still get lots of work done.

Of course this could just be due to my current project being particularly favourable, hence my interest in start-up ideas to try once it ends...

Re: Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

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Post by rmc »

dpritchett wrote: post #44
atomical wrote: post #43

"If you spend just a few minutes on Hacker News, you’ll come across Patrick McKenzie in one way or another" You can say that again. I am starting to feel the overload.

Unlike most HN tropes I haven't found the "and here's how patio11 does it" angles to be tiresome. A one-man profitable non-funded small code-driven business is chock full of lessons for all of us.

Exactly, he's my inspiration to make http://www.celtic-knot-creator.com
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