Part time Entrepreneur, fulltime Employee
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Re: Part time Entrepreneur, fulltime Employee
#2This is precisely my M.O., save for having an active project or a definite idea. :-)
Re: Part time Entrepreneur, fulltime Employee
#3There should be a support group for over 30 startup founders that have families, bills, and full-time jobs.
My advice to any one trying to do this is to be patient and find a time management system that works for you. Also, get used to the hours between 8pm and 2am. Those hours can be your best friend and worse enemy.
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#4This is totally doable, although I don't envy him for trying to do it while also having a wife and kids. If your life situation allows you to play WoW, your life situation allows you to run a business. Heck, my business is considerably less complicated than the guild I used to run. I managed to cut my headcount by 39 and my hours by 75%. (You may have to stop playing WoW. Apologies in advance, but trust me, the loot gets better.)
It occurs to me that I've never done a blog post explicitly about doing a business while also employed. I think I might over the weekend. Is there anything specific y'all would be interested in hearing about?
Re: Part time Entrepreneur, fulltime Employee
#5+1
Even college grads can follow some of this advice. Come out of school ladened with debt is no picnic and sure going straight to a startup sure seems like a sexy idea but even Paul Graham admits most startups fail. Sure valuable experience, and new contacts help ease that but there are alternatives. I would prefer to go into business for myself once I am debt free and on solid footing (not waiting because I am scared....well I am a little)
Not to mention that above average coders can make some good salaries.
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#6I'm sure dedicating yourself to one single project may be better, but doing both is absolutely doable at the beginning. You can even go a little further. At one (recent) point of my career I had more full time employees than the company of which I was an employee at the very same time. Sometimes you don't have the option of risk it all, so you need to adapt, even if that means skipping your beauty sleep. It's all about been driven, just like you are.
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#7This is totally doable, although I don't envy him for trying to do it while also having a wife and kids. If your life situation allows you to play WoW, your life situation allows you to run a business. Heck, my business is considerably less complicated than the guild I used to run. I managed to cut my headcount by 39 and my hours by 75%. (You may have to stop playing WoW. Apologies in advance, but trust me, the loot…
I would love to hear about any techniques you have for overcoming mental fatigue at the end of your work day when you still have business work to do.
Did you work on your business before the work day started? Or something different?
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#8+1 Even college grads can follow some of this advice. Come out of school ladened with debt is no picnic and sure going straight to a startup sure seems like a sexy idea but even Paul Graham admits most startups fail. Sure valuable experience, and new contacts help ease that but there are alternatives. I would prefer to go into business for myself once I am debt free and on solid footing (not waiting because I am scar…
Not to mention students still in college. Being a fulltime student is akin to being a fulltime employee, with or without a spouse. Add in undergrad research still more time is taken up.
It's all about priorities. You have to allocate your time wisely and remove activities that aren't centrally valuable.
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#9This is totally doable, although I don't envy him for trying to do it while also having a wife and kids. If your life situation allows you to play WoW, your life situation allows you to run a business. Heck, my business is considerably less complicated than the guild I used to run. I managed to cut my headcount by 39 and my hours by 75%. (You may have to stop playing WoW. Apologies in advance, but trust me, the loot…
I definitely would be. Any techniques you've developed for switching contexts would be greatly appreciated..
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#10This is totally doable, although I don't envy him for trying to do it while also having a wife and kids. If your life situation allows you to play WoW, your life situation allows you to run a business. Heck, my business is considerably less complicated than the guild I used to run. I managed to cut my headcount by 39 and my hours by 75%. (You may have to stop playing WoW. Apologies in advance, but trust me, the loot…
I would love to hear about any techniques you have for overcoming mental fatigue at the end of your work day when you still have business work to do. Did you work on your business before the work day started? Or something different?
Seconded. It seems to me that whenever people tell you to keep your day job while trying to start a business, their day jobs are not related to programming.(so IT, analyst...)
I would love to read something about how your code all day for your day job and then code all night for your business. That info, coming from somebody who has done it before would be a very interesting read.
(Another interesting thing would be reading about how to keep your sanity while doing all of this for more than a few weeks)