Ask HN: I'm trapped in a golden prison, any advice?
This is going to sound very braggy, I hope I won't get shut down for this. I feel like I'm trapped in a golden prison, unhappy but comfortable. I'm a self taught programmer, 32 yo, with an engineering background and masters. Co-founded 2 companies, failed, worked in california and singapore, now based in Europe. I think I'm an ok dev, quite good with people. I've mostly been working as a freelancer all my life, started billing 33€/day in 2012 for a few days at a time, now around 924€/day, 220 days/year. Always worked at fast paced / high stakes startups except for my current job. Worked 60 to 70 hours a week, ~50 weeks per year for many years until 2020. In 2021 I was completely burned out after 7.5 years of grinding. Took a cozy freelance job as a fullstack senior engineer in a ~100ppl company, coming into the office 2days/week. I'm
Why it failed
This is going to sound very braggy, I hope I won't get shut down for this. I feel like I'm trapped in a golden prison, unhappy but comfortable. I'm a self taught programmer, 32 yo, with an engineering background and masters. Co-founded 2 companies, failed, worked i
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- stuckdevthrowaw
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews