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by jondubois 3297 days ago
I worked 80 hours per week for 7 years straight.

At one point I was juggling full time university with a full time job and an open source project on the side. My grades suffered, the startup I worked for failed, my open source project failed. I did manage to graduate though.

Then I started another open source project, worked on it for 2 years, it also failed because of tough competition.

So then I started yet another open source project and finally it did well and people seem to like it (almost 4k stars on Github) - It's been 3 years.

I was working full time the entire time and I was exhausted all the time.

There is no point complaining about your situation because there is always someone who has it worse than you.

You have to learn that nobody cares and nobody will try to help you - I think this is the right way. I personally don't mind the struggle but I hate to see people getting easy exits because someone wants to protect someone else's feelings. Nobody deserves anything.

I wish more people would understand how it really works and you can only get that from continuous failure over many years. It gives you a more accurate feeling for what the odds really are.

2 comments

I admire your working discipline and stuff but in which way do you think does your answer help the thread owner?
I just wanted to emphasize to not focus on rewards so much. Failure makes you more resilient. This resilience can be a reward in itself.
Just because someone doesn't understand your post and downvotes it is no reason to have to explain. Some people have less than a cup half empty, they have it turned upside down. +1 to you.
He is trying to tell him not to give up. That you can fail your way to success. Can't you see that?
So TLDR: I am a workaholic. It has not brought success. I hate it when other people succeed without sacrificing their lives to work?
Not what I meant. I don't like it when people succeed because their friend's dad is the CEO of the company which acqui-hired them (for example).