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by equilibrium
1041 days ago
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- I am not afraid of taking risks I think you might want to really reflect on this. From what I've gathered from your other responses, are not willing to take a risk - be it a risk in starting to execute an idea and risk failing or a financial risk. Slightly off-topic, but do you consider yourself a perfectionist? |
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I am totally willing to take that specific risk, I just need an idea to start tinkering with, that was the topic of the thread.
> or a financial risk.
That's not a risk in my book, spending your own money that you allocated for retirement and financial independence towards something else is a fool's errand.
A couple of examples of random career-related risks I took in life:
- Immigrated by myself to the US in my early 20s, with no money or family to support me, despite having a promised stable government job in my home country (with pension, etc). A lot of people in my home country told me they would have never taken that risk. Still to this day, more than a decade later, they tell me they envy the courage of that rural boy who took of for the USA.
- Left highly paid 6-figure jobs, multiple times, to join early stages startups (seed-level early), making peanuts every time. Virtually all my coworkers at the time said how crazy and risky the moves were.
> but do you consider yourself a perfectionist?
Not at all. One of my strengths is actually that I tend to be very "lazy", meaning I do the minimum amount of work to ship something that satisfies the business requirement. You won't find me going above and beyond too many times. I have no problem leaving around a lot of tech debt if it's for a good reason.