Face it - You are Addicted to Success

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12 pointsMrinal4 comments

Excellent excellent introspective piece!

I wonder sometimes if the business world of the Internet is diverse enough to be considered "changing careers" if you move from one type of online business/service to another.

Example, from a web consultant to a startup founder.

Sure, I made two simultaneous changes in the last year and a half, with each one helping to make the other happen: went from a jack-of-all-trades front end dev to a usability-focused designer, and from never having been at a startup to focusing almost exclusively on them (and working with earlier and earlier stage startups as I went on).

It was definitely a rocky road but helped keep things fresh and I like where I am a lot more now.

but you're still basically a software developer (or designer, not sure what you mean by 'front end dev'), no? You could call it an extra step on your career, but I don't think that's a 'career change' (you didn't go from designer to lawyer - or from consultant to enterpreneur, like the example given)

A career change, imo, would be anything that requires a significant amount of 'new' skills though this piece is all about how we should be less dependent on professional occupation

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