The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself

> The people who write the books, give the TED talks, and post the LinkedIn manifestos about “betting on yourself” are, by definition, the ones for whom the bet paid off.

> You don’t hear much from the ones who went back to traditional employment after three years of grinding, a depleted savings account, and a marriage that got stress-tested past its limits.

Check, check and nearly check. It was a choice between having a business and having a marriage. Easy choice in hindsight.

You can break up, or you can have a thousand fights. Why would you have a thousand fights? Well, so you can make peace. Having my own business, incidentally with my spouse, was the perfect conduit for those thousand fights. Holy hell in a handbasket. But: I've gotten to know them in a way I don't think I'd ever have reached without the business. I wouldn't change a thing. Except maybe getting a clue at the three year mark that this wasn't going to work instead of grimly hanging on to a dying dream for seven years.

As my grandfather would say “being self employed is great - you get to work whichever 80 hours a week you want.”

"Survivors Are Loud; Statistics Are Quiet", is it just me or is that "Foo is Bar; Baz is (the opposite of) Bar" speech pattern one that LLMs prefer for weird reasons.

This is a observation, not a judgment.

(That would be another one: "This is a Foo, not a Bar")