How do you do it? You clock out at 5 pm after spending your entire day helping someone else's business. Then you get home and start doing the real work at 7 pm. Your laptop becomes your second office and your dinner becomes posting and emails. Weekends become pitch decks and debugging sessions.
No one's watching and clapping for you, no one's paying you a dime. It's just you and your belief that this thing you are building might be worth it. Sometimes it feels impossible and you almost give up. Other times it works as you intended and your mood lights up. Most days it just cycles between those states.
To all of the dreamers, how do you do it? Building your product, how you avoid getting burn out and keep your sanity intact that you don't get fired from the job and still build your startup that one day will give you the freedom that you deserve?
The startup grind after working 9 to 5 everyday.
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Having cofounders helped. But I’ve mentioned this topic on a couple panels before. You get home, eat, do a few stretches, put on a song, pump yourself up, and sit back down. It doesn’t stop when it becomes your main gig either.
I wonder this every day. I got burnt out a few months ago and have been on a hiatus. I want to get back into it, but every day after work I’m just mentally exhausted. I will do a lil something on weekends, but I know it’s not nearly enough. I need to get myself back into that mental state of pushing through and grinding. The 9-5 system feels like it was made to hold you down so you don’t have the opportunity to do something for yourself.