Your journey is one of the most inspiring to me. You didn't hit a lucky strike and became successful overnight, but you grew your business patiently like a plant that requires time and attention.
But I have this question for you. Couldn't you find the same fullfilment in a regular job? You could work async, switch companies to suit your needs, lead and “own” projects, reach a position to make enough money to not worry about it. And you would of course enjoy all the other things in life.
So to refine my question, what is the actual, deep differentiator between the two choices, of working for business owners and working for your clients?
Mykolaos, thanks a lot for the nice words! I appreciate it a lot.
You asked a great question! But honestly? I don't know.
There is a part of me that tells me that I probably could still be happy and satisfied by just continuing to work at a regular job. And I had a lot of good jobs, no complaints. And another part of me tells me that I should have tried; otherwise, I would never know what awaited me.
But is that a relevant question, now? I am not sure. In the upcoming months, I plan to keep growing my business and improving it. And I am not sure if I am hireable. Can somebody hire me? For what position? Writing code? Product management? Customer support?
Long story short, it is hard for me to answer. But I assume there might be parallel words where I keep working at a regular job, and I am happy.
I haven’t even started with MRR yet but I can relate to this a lot.
I’ve been working as a freelancer for over 10 years. I started with just a few euros per month and grew to 4.5k without ever working nights or after 6 pm. Everything was fine. I had my house, a girlfriend, health, and so on. But I began to feel like something was missing.
I started freelancing as a direct result of building a personal project, a directory for movie trailers. I got noticed, started working more, earning money, and so on.
A few months ago, I realized what I was missing was the pure passion for building something that people find useful. I clearly saw that this was the way to achieve a kind of endless personal happiness and I began my journey to build in public on X.
For me, right now, MRR is just a way to measure how much people will love my projects.
That is all I need. I felt it before when I saw my website displayed on theater foyer screens and when I watched fellow citizens using my web app to follow live council election results. That is what’s next for me.
I remember when we talked in 2022. I had also quit my job in 2021. What a journey man!
I think you approach your next steps from the right way: what feels right while doing it. It doesn't matter if it is tied to money or not. For some people that aligns but, unfortunately for most people they are required to do something they do not like to earn *some* money.
The key aspect for me is to identify when one has earned enough. What was the driver to do that activity and consider is the driver still there?
The worst one can do is continue plowing on based on initial drivers then discover our personality and views on the world might have changed and feel complete disillusionment.
Keep following your intuition and what feels right!
Your journey is one of the most inspiring to me. You didn't hit a lucky strike and became successful overnight, but you grew your business patiently like a plant that requires time and attention.
But I have this question for you. Couldn't you find the same fullfilment in a regular job? You could work async, switch companies to suit your needs, lead and “own” projects, reach a position to make enough money to not worry about it. And you would of course enjoy all the other things in life.
So to refine my question, what is the actual, deep differentiator between the two choices, of working for business owners and working for your clients?
Mykolaos, thanks a lot for the nice words! I appreciate it a lot.
You asked a great question! But honestly? I don't know.
There is a part of me that tells me that I probably could still be happy and satisfied by just continuing to work at a regular job. And I had a lot of good jobs, no complaints. And another part of me tells me that I should have tried; otherwise, I would never know what awaited me.
But is that a relevant question, now? I am not sure. In the upcoming months, I plan to keep growing my business and improving it. And I am not sure if I am hireable. Can somebody hire me? For what position? Writing code? Product management? Customer support?
Long story short, it is hard for me to answer. But I assume there might be parallel words where I keep working at a regular job, and I am happy.
I haven’t even started with MRR yet but I can relate to this a lot.
I’ve been working as a freelancer for over 10 years. I started with just a few euros per month and grew to 4.5k without ever working nights or after 6 pm. Everything was fine. I had my house, a girlfriend, health, and so on. But I began to feel like something was missing.
I started freelancing as a direct result of building a personal project, a directory for movie trailers. I got noticed, started working more, earning money, and so on.
A few months ago, I realized what I was missing was the pure passion for building something that people find useful. I clearly saw that this was the way to achieve a kind of endless personal happiness and I began my journey to build in public on X.
For me, right now, MRR is just a way to measure how much people will love my projects.
That is all I need. I felt it before when I saw my website displayed on theater foyer screens and when I watched fellow citizens using my web app to follow live council election results. That is what’s next for me.
It is great to realize this earlier than later. We are lucky!
I remember when we talked in 2022. I had also quit my job in 2021. What a journey man!
I think you approach your next steps from the right way: what feels right while doing it. It doesn't matter if it is tied to money or not. For some people that aligns but, unfortunately for most people they are required to do something they do not like to earn *some* money.
The key aspect for me is to identify when one has earned enough. What was the driver to do that activity and consider is the driver still there?
The worst one can do is continue plowing on based on initial drivers then discover our personality and views on the world might have changed and feel complete disillusionment.
Keep following your intuition and what feels right!
Thanks for sharing all that, my friend ❤️
Yes, one of my fears is to keep grinding by inertia without realizing it is not irrelevant anymore.
Also, I don’t judge people who chase money or need more. For me, it just feels enough, I don’t know 🤷🏻♂️
I am super curious how your new journey will play out eventually.
Congratulations 👏 for the milestone and even bigger props for the mindset. Cheers to a builder's love for the game & not just the scoreboard
Thank you 🙏
This is amazing man