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point to yes. But, I think it’s a matter of timing
really, as well your specific capacity for being a work-horse day after day. Really, this is not for the faint of heart—you literally have no time for anything else and it’s a marathon, not a sprint. No sleep. No personal life. No “me time” (sounds awfully similar to doing a startup full-time, or on the flip-side being a consultant in the traditional road-warrior sense of the word, huh?).
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Inspiration from my day job does actually flow into my startup tripchi and vice-versa”
Burn-out seems like an inevitable conclusion. How far you are willing to take it is the choice that only you can make, since you will be the ultimate endurer of that choice. You may actually be able to sustain both for a very long time, perhaps even forever. But whether you are doing both to the best of your ability, since you, by default, have a multi-focus ADD-like life, is a different story entirely.
I recently blogged on Entrepreneur
Country.com and I spoke about Inspiration, Change, and Focus. For me, inspiration from my day job does actually flow into my startup at tripchi and vice-versa. I know that I couldn’t sustain both if I didn’t have inspiration from each. Both are good, but in very different ways, and each have merit in and of themselves. I like my colleagues and I like my co-founders. I enjoy going to the office every day (despite the long commute), supporting someone else’s company, while I also enjoy building a company of my own. Most importantly, I am learning from each, and applying the learnings from one into the other.
Will this split-personality inspiration lead to a change? Probably. Things always change. But in the meantime, I’ll continue to muddle through, keeping all these forces balanced with a skill that I have come to hone over time. This is a skill driven from the sheer sense of responsibility I feel towards myself, others, and society to continue to honor all of my commitments—financially, socially, and personally.
In my life, I have many times been presented with two options and two options only. A or B. Black or white. “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” is another popularly quoted aphorism that would seem like wisdom. But I don’t buy it. I have never liked two options, and in fact I flat out reject this paradigm. There is always a third way. And if it isn’t readily apparent, you just need to keep looking.
I believe you can have A and B. Maybe not forever, but certainly now. 37 entrepreneurcountry
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