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by timeattack 2350 days ago
For the last years I was working on several startups as a contractor.

I always put my very soul to the success of the project, tried to be friend for everyone on the team, committed for 40-50 hours per week. When projects demanded non-profile skills from me, I was open-minded, trying to learn new skillset in no-time to help as quickly as possible.

All the times I was dissapointed on being really no-one in the end for the project.

Despite I was trying to be guiding voice to help project to stay away from bad decisions, project owners were not really listening.

I said, many-many times things like "let's stop delivering new features until we will have at least 1 paying customer and focus on getting customer flow", CEOs just kept pushing in obviously wrong direction which ultimately meant end for the project.

Now I'm fed with all of this and decided to put my limited time to my own projects.