[TekMol]

Here comes an unpopular opinion: Learn from it and act on it.

If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job.

Stop wasting your time. Go to twitter and search for '#buildinpublic'. Follow the journeys of other people for a while. It does not need a hundred million dollar company to outperform a regular job. It just needs a nice online product that brings in more than a job.

Check out this essay by Paul Graham:

http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html

His summary of life: "Don't be a cog".

You still have all the options to not be a cog.

[skeeter2020]

>> If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job.

Which I (genuinely) assume you are. The reality is far more nuanced than this. Building a "nice online product that brings in more than a job" is the non-trivial lede that you buried in there, and everyone working a job is not wasting their time working a job as a cog.

[TekMol]

Yes, it is non-trivial.

But a job is non-trivial as well. So many hours of your life go into it. Over so many years.

[john_yaya]

You don’t even have to be young, necessarily. In fact being an “older” person in tech probably means you’ve built up a wealth of experience, and a cushion of resources for getting your business started.