> Every day work drains me, I don't enjoy being here.
Most of us don't do startups for the money... obviously it's hard to walk from $500k annually, but if your hearts not in it, that seems justification enough to leave.
There was a person at work who was clearly not enjoying their job. My colleague looks at me and asks, "why doesn't he just quit?" I almost responded, "well, I would want the unemployment!" Personally, I was kind of shocked at how he thought that was just a matter of fact of what people do. :) And this was coming from a guy who would disappear for weeks and weeks of vacation to go play team beach volleyball. He got laid off and the guy who wasn't enjoying their job left for a new job.
Due to impending funding issues, bizarre founder decisions, and lack of team work, I recently passed the stage of my startup job from "this feels like my baby" to "this feels like a job". What's been helping me a lot is building something on the side. It's helped me gain new skills, give me ideas of what I want to do, blow off steam, etc.
It's also helped me realize that if I find something I want to do I should do it, but there's also nothing wrong with just having a job as long as I have other things to make up for that. Plus organizations can change too. Sometimes for the better.
Due to impending funding issues, bizarre founder decisions, and lack of team work, I recently passed the stage of my startup job from "this feels like my baby" to "this feels like a job". What's been helping me a lot is building something on the side. It's helped me gain new skills, give me ideas of what I want to do, blow off steam, etc.
It's also helped me realize that if I find something I want to do I should do it, but there's also nothing wrong with just having a job as long as I have other things to make up for that. Plus organizations can change too. Sometimes for the better.
Sorry for this nonsense. :)