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Of these two options, which one would you choose?
1. Project that you like and pays you just enough to eat and pay the rent and needs almost all your time in an office for the next 3-4 years, where you can have a "normal" life and wait another 2-3 years to have a "better" life.
2. Corporate employment that you like less but where you immediately earn 2-2.5x more than in option 1 and you can grow, save and invest in several options you have, some of real state, while you can start another side project.
Detail:
To create a successful business you need an idea and a lot of effort, as it is perfectly detailed in TFLM.
But sometimes we are in a dead end.
Seth Godin has talked about this in his book The Dip:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQFbVr1whg
In this regard I would like to tell my situation to ask for advice.
Although each person is different, the people in this chat have the right mindset and it would help me to listen your to thoughts.
I have been 100% in a project that I love for 2 years but it hardly gives me money to live and requires almost all the time of the day. My estimates are that in 3-4 years I can have earnings that allow me a "normal" life and in the next 3-4 years a comfortable life.
It is a long time and because there is no option to make it compatible with another project or employment (neither for time nor because I have 2 other partners who would not accept) I have begun to consider the idea of abandoning it, looking for a job where I would immediately earn 2 times more money (I have some offers) and to be able to dedicate the new money to some opportunity that I have in investment and in real state, in addition to starting another project that I have in mind making it compatible with the employment.
The lesson is that I quit my previous job without this project being large enough, I trusted my partner and it was a mistake. Lesson learned, where I lost confidence in one of my partners
But the doubt arises of abandoning a project that I love and that can give me wealth and freedom in a few years in exchange for returning to the corporate world, schedules, bosses, etc.
I think that although I would love to be able to continue on the project, I have no choice but to abandon it. In fact I made the Weighted Average Decision matrix and the decision that wins is to look for a job. Especially because I valued the money I would earn in the coming years, which I could invest.
Surely all successful people have gone through hard times and therefore I have endured, but I do not know if it is the best here, being 38 years old, to dedicate 8 more years of my life to a project that gives me money to barely survive while I close any other opportunity.
I would appreciate any insight.
Thanks and best regards.
1. Project that you like and pays you just enough to eat and pay the rent and needs almost all your time in an office for the next 3-4 years, where you can have a "normal" life and wait another 2-3 years to have a "better" life.
2. Corporate employment that you like less but where you immediately earn 2-2.5x more than in option 1 and you can grow, save and invest in several options you have, some of real state, while you can start another side project.
Detail:
To create a successful business you need an idea and a lot of effort, as it is perfectly detailed in TFLM.
But sometimes we are in a dead end.
Seth Godin has talked about this in his book The Dip:
In this regard I would like to tell my situation to ask for advice.
Although each person is different, the people in this chat have the right mindset and it would help me to listen your to thoughts.
I have been 100% in a project that I love for 2 years but it hardly gives me money to live and requires almost all the time of the day. My estimates are that in 3-4 years I can have earnings that allow me a "normal" life and in the next 3-4 years a comfortable life.
It is a long time and because there is no option to make it compatible with another project or employment (neither for time nor because I have 2 other partners who would not accept) I have begun to consider the idea of abandoning it, looking for a job where I would immediately earn 2 times more money (I have some offers) and to be able to dedicate the new money to some opportunity that I have in investment and in real state, in addition to starting another project that I have in mind making it compatible with the employment.
The lesson is that I quit my previous job without this project being large enough, I trusted my partner and it was a mistake. Lesson learned, where I lost confidence in one of my partners
But the doubt arises of abandoning a project that I love and that can give me wealth and freedom in a few years in exchange for returning to the corporate world, schedules, bosses, etc.
I think that although I would love to be able to continue on the project, I have no choice but to abandon it. In fact I made the Weighted Average Decision matrix and the decision that wins is to look for a job. Especially because I valued the money I would earn in the coming years, which I could invest.
Surely all successful people have gone through hard times and therefore I have endured, but I do not know if it is the best here, being 38 years old, to dedicate 8 more years of my life to a project that gives me money to barely survive while I close any other opportunity.
I would appreciate any insight.
Thanks and best regards.
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