[ThePhysicist]

As an entrepreneur I agree that our job is probably more demanding and stressful than your usual 9-to-5 in a big corporation, but I would never say that we have a hard life. Here's why:

- We have chosen this path ourselves, nobody forced us to run our own business and play the startup game.

- We are able to do something we love all day and possibly even make a lot of money doing so.

- We can decide ourselves how much we actually work and how we organize our life (even if most people pretend they can't).

- If our business fails, we can (mostly) just go back working in a high-paying job in industry.

That's not exactly what I call a hard life. If you think it is, you might wanna take a look outside your IT-/Silicon-Valley bubble, where many people get up every day at 5 am, work 12 hours in a job they don't like but can't quit because they need the money and still are barely able to make ends meet. To them, most of our "problems" would be luxuries to have.