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Maybe being the CEO isn't the point.
Ideally the point is doing something interesting and seeing your work change the lives of other people for the better.
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Ideally the point is doing something interesting and seeing your work change the lives of other people for the better.
Exactly. I am using a lot of my time figuring out how to get on a more impactful project. But I think even that would be better served by me judst launching my tiny damn site already!
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Your sticking to the narrative and not what actually happens in a practical sense. You dont get to be CEO till your company has happy customers paying you moeny and your making a tidy profit. Till then you'll do anything and evertyhign thats necessary - most of it is unpleasent. 10% is fun.
In my experience, pleasantness and unpleasantness are day to day feelings that sometimes work in my favor and sometimes don't. Many times I have a responsibility which requires unpleasant things, and it makes it more difficult to do, and might make me unhappy if my happiness is based on daily frustrations and successes. That type of happiness tends to have very little to do with our goals. Since it's also very unpred…
When I say 90% of being an entrepreneur is unpleasant - I mean it in a good way :). Ie, its unpleasant because its new to me and therefore I'm learning and I would still do all this crap than be at my old 9-to-5 where I was chasing other people's dreams - namely my bosses dream of getting promoted.
There's a huge difference between unpleasant and unhappy. :)
My whole point is that too many people keep thinking of finding that great job where you do what you love. But the whole point is the only way you can get to that point is by being successful in the first place - enough so that you can pay others to do what you don't like.
So while building up that capital of success your going to be doing heckuva lot of stuff you don't like.
I think a lot of people don't get this.
YOU CANT GET TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE WITHOUT HUGE PAIN aka SACRIFICE.