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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
I’m contemplating leaving a cushy W2 job to take a serious run at something I’ve been envisioning for a decade, and is now technologically possible. Convince me not to.
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
You mean, convince you to? 😜 Send it!
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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
https://warpcast.com/benersing/0xdac6f669 😊
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
Ok, for me, I personally feel like I’m less present with my family, friends, and partner. There are exceptional founders who are great at delegating time and context switching between founder mode and husband/parent mode but I am not one of them. This is a skill that I am still developing and you may need to develop too. It is particularly painful because when you start a company, it’s all schlep work for the first 2-3 years with shit revenue and you don’t have as much feedback or conviction in yourself. It feels like I’m sacrificing family time so that I can build conviction for myself in the future. I am one year into building my company, and I have already lost time with my partner and family. I still don’t know if things will work out financially for humankind. As long as you are comfortable developing the above skill and dealing with that uncertainty, it will be a good decision. But on my deathbed, I bet I would trade $10m in cash for another year w my family/partner.
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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
Helpful, thank you. I know how much joy candles bring you. If you didn’t take a serious run at it, would your deathbed answer change (forget the capital)?
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
I’m trading an unknown potentially good thing (candles) for a known good thing (family, friends, partner). I don’t know if my answer would change. They’re different kinds of good. I haven’t built enough conviction yet in either direction. So maybe you have to decide what kind of good you want. Another reason to not to do it, because you may be balancing this dynamic for the rest of your life.
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