Erm, isn't 10 hours a day approximately one full-time job?
If she's, say, taken a six-month sabbatical to learn to make websites, this seems eminently reasonable and doable without speculation about mental illness.
If she's, say, taken a six-month sabbatical to learn to make websites, this seems eminently reasonable and doable without speculation about mental illness.
While it is far from a definitive diagnosis, it isn't 'normal'.
Without a doubt it is ambitious, and her progress thus far impressive!
If only we all had 10 hours a day for a full 6 month period to spend pursuing ambitious goals ...
...and your existing bills and how you are able to pay for them.
I've got a 1 hour commute each direction, and an 8 hour a day, soul-sucking, brain-energy-sucking job. (HN is sanity retention medicine for me.) By the time I get home in the evening, fix dinner for the kids and me, eat, catch up with the family, etc. I don't have a lot of time or energy for anything else.
Use of shared desks costs like $200 a month at places like Citizen Space, so it's not like that's a bank breaker.
If she had a family it would make less sense. If she were living a 'baller' lifestyle, drinking and partying every weekend, it would make less sense. But if she's an unattached workaholic, her life probably costs very little and no independent wealth is required.
I know a fair number of people who have retrained at University for another career, for example. Most of them weren't independently wealthy - they'd just saved up enough to be able to afford to go to university for a year.
Edit: that's exactly what Jennifer says she's been doing, above - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6098083