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by mod 3091 days ago
6/10

It's not the job's fault. Good atmosphere, coworkers, and immediate management. I just want to be doing my own thing.

We have had a lot of turnover, though. Perhaps it's not as good for others.

Edit: I think the job deserves 8 or 9/10, it's my own attitude affecting how I answer the question as-posed.

1 comments

Yeah, I know that feeling. I've concluded that I'm simply not a very good employee.

Don't get me wrong, I perform! And they've let me make a lot of changes that fix many of the problems they've had.

But my mind's always on my side jobs and how fast I can grow them into a business that can support us full-time. The inefficiencies at a mature business just bug me so much.

You may find those technical inefficiencies are what enabled the business to mature and sustain itself...I know several people whose “business” has extremely “efficient” tech but zero revenue. I.e. customers don’t care how efficient the tech is so long as they can pay you money to solve their problem...and putting too much energy into the tech prevents you from other revenue-generating activities such as lead generation, sales, etc.
I said absolutely nothing about technical inefficiencies.
Keep up the side work and hope something works! Best of luck.