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Did anyone have kids at the start of your hustle? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Silver_Scallion_1127@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I was going to come up with a hustle until I found out my wife was pregnant so I decided to put it to the side. Fast forward to around now, my kid is 2 and it's pretty exhausting thinking about it now if I did go through my project. I personally couldn't find myself continuing the project because I had a full-time job and even trying to work on my hustle at home, it gets too distracting but I also WANT to be a family man.

I have no judgment in any way and like to know if anyone ever managed to run their (new) projects while having a kid either on the way or just arriving. So far what I've seen in person, it seems the ones who kept their business up don't spend a lot of time with their partner/kid. As said, I have no judgment and just like to know more about it.

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[–] TheScriptTiger@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This happened to a co-founder I had, ended up having a kid. Literally sent me and the rest of the small team we had a video message in tears. He really wanted to make it work, but he just couldn't, and nobody could blame him, and he went back to work in marketing at some corporate somewhere. We literally started up at the beginning of 2020, right before anyone knew COVID was going to be a "thing," and everything was smooth sailing for us, while we watched everyone else's businesses around us burn. But yeah, our Achilles' heel ended up being a newborn and not COVID, as crazy as that might seem in retrospect.