You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
I have gotten really serious at trying to start a business this year.<p>I devote Monday through Thursday to working on my business. After work I take an hour to an hour and a half break. Then I work for five to six hours, then thirty minutes break before bed.<p>Friday through Sunday, I devote to writing, resting, or other things. Honestly it&#x27;s mostly resting, because I&#x27;m way beyond burnt out.<p>The thing is I&#x27;m spent after my work day. I&#x27;m making more errors at night, causing more rework and frustration. I was also concerned about layoffs&#x2F;loss of job. So I was dipping time into job searching.<p>That&#x27;s not even getting into the existential what am I doing with my life. I&#x27;m early 30s and wasting the bulk of my youth trying to start a company. It&#x27;s depressing to me to be locked to my computer for 13 to 14 hours a day. I love working on my business idea. But I have music I want to work on, novels, etc. Places I want to see.<p>This past weekend I went to a weekend startup accelerator. It has been years since I felt like that. My brain was firing on all cylinders, and I was working on a team. The past several years of my career. Have been death marches, and projects that are cancelled mid stream, and I&#x27;m flying solo. This is why I want to start a business, but I&#x27;m just so exhausted all the time.<p>I have done the quit and take a few months off in the past. Those were the happiest I&#x27;ve been in my career. But something has yanked me back to a full time job, because I need money asap.<p>Then the last portion as someone else mentioned. The inane invention assignment clauses. My last role took ownership of everything past, present, and future I thought. Irregardless of medium. My current role tried that, but I got an addendum to the contract. I had a past employer try and sue me because we left on bad terms, and they drowned me in legal fees.<p>Sure you don&#x27;t need to quit. But if you want your sanity, and some legal peace of mind it&#x27;s the best thing.