He starts off by telling us he's burnt out and then jumps immediately to discussing how he turned a hobby into a full time job... Sounds like a cycle.
"Its not an ego trip" but I will spend 17 tweets talking about myself
Feel free to do the same to me if you wish.
Edit: On a more serious point i think its actually potentially damaging. Burnout should be recognised as a real problem in industries such as tech. And I don't believe the way to cure burnout is to immediately start jumping into things like:
"About 2 weeks ago I decided to make this a business. I formed an LLC, got an EIN, got Insurance, and built a website.
I started running google ads and I’ve had some good success in the short two weeks I’ve been doing this on weekends."
"So far I have sunk every penny I’ve made back into the business. I have bought a bunch of equipment."
"I’ll be taking on some short term gigs. If you want a decently competent React/C# developer to go through your backlog and fix some old bugs that no one else wants to tackle, well that’s my favorite type of work.
You can hire me for an hour, two hours, 60 hours, etc."
Of course this is just my opinion but i believe he should take some time to really have downtime and reflect, rather than immediately sinking all of his time / energy into a new venture... which once the honeymoon phase ends, hello burnout
1. There is a tendency on this website for people to post concepts of "Let me pat myself on the back for saving my life." Kinda like an Alcoholic that stops drinking and expecting a reward. Saving your life or saving yourself from depression is the reward.
2. Why does this have to be written in small form paragraphs on Twitter? Are we incapable of stringing more than 2 paragraphs together?
3. I quit being a miserable/depressed coder and now I’m happy.
That was like an M. Night Shyamalan twist for me.
He also writes in his bio "I’m a father but I’m not like all up in your face about it." and then has a barf worthy banner image related to fatherhood and makes numerous comments to how "dad jokes" will still be routinely made.
So, it's a bit contradictory?
OT but man I hate people who "select" tickets off the backlog. You better have a good reason for not taking the one right at the top...
Is "I am totally burnt out to work on that thing where people will be breathing down my neck" a good reason?