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by josephschmoe 4299 days ago
To be honest, I think you could really benefit from having a good office job. Office work can greatly improve your ability to focus and complete tasks.

Before I took an office job, I could make small projects but couldn't program beyond maybe 1000 lines of code without running into trouble. At my job, I learned to be a great programmer, an engineer and a software architect. I became focused and patient. It is often a necessary right of passage for those 'great engineers' and 'people who change the world' to work in an office. It can take years, but you can become a better engineer than you ever dreamed you could be.

Trust me on this: you might like it a lot more than you think.

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Building discipline and consistency to do the tasks you don't value but need to be done are a huge skill necessary for any kind of success in any position, startup or otherwise.