[iambateman]

Founding a company can absolutely be a part time endeavor. In fact, why would you jump in full time before you have reason to believe its' going to return revenue.

I spent a year working on a doomed concept before acknowledging that it was probably better to have a job that paid dollars every two weeks.

Eventually, sure, it makes sense to go full time. But there's got to be some kind of real-money-rationale.

If that's the case, of course a career isn't going to be a clean, linear sheet. My resume looks like a cobweb. But for some people, one job for 35 years is totally still attainable.