The 3 Biggest Emotions From Quitting My Day Job To Work On My Startup

Looking forward to that day myself! When you're grown up and married, a startup is a different problem altogether. There's a kind of negotiation with the spouse (mine anyway)... she agrees to let me do this, I agree to do it in a way that causes minimum financial disruption. That basically means I don't get to quit the dayjob (that I loathe more every day) until I'm generating a functional income.

The need for a financial transition led to a pivot from bootstrapping to seeking funding, and the realities of seeking funding in my limited bandwidth led to a pivot back to bootstrapping, with a greatly scaled-back scope. I think I'm in a much better place now, with achievable goals. But it's hard... in practice, I'm getting about 1/3 the productivity of working full time, at best.