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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
Thanks for sharing. The bolded is where I'm currently at.
After this experience, nothing is more appealing to me than stability, structure, and balance. Working 24/7 and not being able to take a proper vacation has taken its toll for the past ~7 years. And the founder relations have impacted my ability to trust people and follow my instincts.
Maybe the fire returns, maybe it doesn't. But I hope I can avoid a situation where the company is sold for scraps so this whole experience wasn't for nothing. We shall wait and see.
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Yeah, the stability and comfort of a 9-5 (8-4 in my case...
) is hard to beat. Especially with kids so young! I have 0 guilt at dropping everything around 4 to be home for dinner/activities every night.
That being said, I wouldn't say the selling for scraps left me with "nothing". There was some monetary benefit- while things were going good in year 1-1.5, I substantially upgraded a lot of conditions in my life, put in good seed funds for my kids RESPs, added substantially to my own retirement pile, and kept our relatively high standard of life through my wife's mat leave.
+ I learned a lot. More than I could have imagined. Work skills. Life skills. Importance of specific things. Lessons that I probably would not have taken easily outside of these circumstances.
Even if you don't benefit financially from the end of this business, you have other ways to derive benefit! Don't forget them