[danhab99]

When I was in college I took on fat-loads of freelance work. I had to be the product manager, product designer, graphics designer, UX designer, database design, deployment, all while having to explain what I'm doing and what I need to a board of white-haired boomers who know alittle cobol.

It was EXHAUSTING!!

Working the responsibilities of a team of 5-7 while having to communicate with admins and execs ruined the experience for me, I'm a programmer, I like to sit down for 5-6hrs a day and code. You need me to do something, assign me the issue I'll make it happen. And I feel like there's a lot of people who think like me. Specializing to move up in your company is important, but it also feels good. Focusing yourself on one thing that fulfills you and getting good at that is way more rewarding then having to work through the frustration of switching gears to another job.

To all who think that you can start a company by collecting a tonne of venture capital and hire one dude to do all the work, cease. You can't do it. It doesn't work. That's not how you win.