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Well said.
I also think if you REALLY want it, you can make it work. It will probably be way harder. I am someone who is on the same boat, working full time on a completely separate project, and working on side to get my web app all setup.
I lost a lot of my motivation late august, due to crazy working hours/ least social life/ issues at full time job because a senior guy quit, and I got a lot more workload than expected.
But I believe this way I would also learn way more than normal scenario, picking either one, and probably the best learning/productive period of my life. I guess only way to test your limits is to push yourself to the limits and then look back and see how far you've come. Just FYI, my full time job involves Java, GWT, GXT(Sencha), Spring, Hibernate and/or JPA (depending on the branch), MySQL, JAXB, Java Web services and other Java related tools, (Ant etc.) On my startup side, it started almost a year ago, when I had a working prototype of an Excel addin, written in C#, which we then realised needs to be a web app, and now I am working on a web app using Javascript, Jquery, LAMP etc. Of course, there are always hiccups, and major issues, every couple of months, and I see my life and wonder if I would change anything and I don't really know how to accept "reality" (need to get a girl, marry, get a house etc.), esp since I still want to finish what I started. I just rebounded from a serious case of demotivation, but now my doctor is telling my I might have colon cancer and what not, and tomorrow is my appointment with a specialist about it. But I know for sure, disease or not, as long as I have some energy left, I would finish my startup work and launch it in a couple of months hopefully. Here's to hoping all my "working-on-a-startup-on-the-side" HN brothers too are able to do whatever is needed and get it started. |