For people of a certain personality type working for someone else is a traumatic and harmful thing. He sounds like someone back from the front lines of a bloody battle.
Congrats! I quit my job last week and have planned to write a similar article but I don't have time because I'm working too hard on my start-up. Maybe once we get over the first milestone, funding, I'll be able to talk about my experiences.
Same here. Today was my last day at work. I liked the first comment in the post. True, once you leave your job you only have a short time to build your business before you exhaust your savings and be forced to look for a job again.
"no real plans yet"
thanks for your comment, I have a strong startup concept and some dev work completed and am looking for one or two great people to work with. maybe we can chat, click through to my YC News profile to get my email.
A lot of money is the only thing that motivates? That's just sad.
I think you're wrong, though. If you're only going for the money, you're not motivated by what you are doing, you're just a mercenary. To me real motivation is someone who is passionate and loves what he is doing, and would be doing it with the same passion even if it never would make him a dime.
I don't think most YC start-ups are doing what they love -- they are doing something to get rich. That's how you get a group of people together to work hard on something. Programming is mostly tedium, and nobody loves that -- why would Arc be taking so long otherwise? Once you don't have to work, and have money, and can do what you "love", I think you'll find most people become indolent.
I hope this isn't true. I'm not sure about YC start ups but I know that I'm in this field because I love it. If you just want to get rich there are certainly easier ways to do that (e.g. real estate, investment banking).
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 56.9 ms ] threadI have no real plan yet, nor any savings remaining but, still, I'm really happy I left. I promised myself to never accept being employed again.
I'm just trying to find a way to be as free as possible while feeding myself.
I think you're wrong, though. If you're only going for the money, you're not motivated by what you are doing, you're just a mercenary. To me real motivation is someone who is passionate and loves what he is doing, and would be doing it with the same passion even if it never would make him a dime.