Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring”
Find what&#x27;s fulfilling for you.<p>For me, it was not fulfilling to be shut out of the private equity markets because I made too little as a wage slave. It was not fulfilling for me to not have the choice of hopping out to month long festivals, because I was merely earning UP TO 2 weeks of time off, or the unlimited vacation policy was just 2 weeks of time because the expectations from the manager were the same.<p>For others, wage work subsidizing some local recreational activities and eventual downpayment on a home is enough. Thats perfectly fine.<p>So <i>for you</i>, relationships are fulfilling, and <i>maybe</i> creativity is. But maybe wage work is too. In your situation, I would at least be prioritizing finding out (maybe by making a post like this as a start). But its better for me to know, than to not know. and I will do that at the expense of personal and professional relationships if a choice needed to be made.<p>One thing to know about both the entrepreneurial and creative side, is that the people you are inspired by always had a choice. They did not <i>need</i> a job to exchange time for food and shelter. Failure would not impact their life. Whereas for people reliant on wage-based professional attainment, the stakes are much higher and its not just a casual decision or path to take. If you fail at the entrepreneurial pursuit, you might actually be reliant on the wage work for the next decade  - hoping - that nothing goes wrong to make you further reliant. Whereas the &quot;fun&quot; entrepreneurs have a survivorship bias in their favor because they can try and try and try again, in quick and simultaneous succession.