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In golden handcuffs - Should I quit? (alien.top)

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

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I'm a banker getting decent pay, single, no mortgage... Should I quit my job to focus on my own business? Ive learned software development and built my MVP for a niche market. Reason was, I'm sick of office politics and forever pleasing my bosses and always trying to prove myself to them. Thinking of, if I put the same amount of energy to my own business, what could I have possibly achieved.

Currently I work full time 9-5, and work on the technology at night til 2am most time. Even weekends. Exhausting, but it worked fine. I've just finished building my product and ready to move on to marketing and acquiring customers. The problem is, customer acquisition would require me to be talking to customers during the day.

Pls give your advice on how have you, or would you would navigate this kind of situation. Would you quit your job?

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

I’ve been in your position before. I had golden handcuffs and I quit to start my own thingbecause I knew if i didn’t I would always wonder what if and it would eat me alive. There is a catch though. I did this before I had a family or a house to pay for. If I had those, I would not have done it. Also, if your product doesn’t work out, if you are outside your industry for a couple years it’s going to be a pain in the ass to break back in. I would call myself highly competent, but I routinely found myself in final round interviews when I tried to reenter tech following and they went with the other option because all things considered equal, would you rather the talent who has been working in tech the last 3 years, or the talent who built a logistics company over the last 3 years. So, all of this to say, I would only quit if you don’t have a family that depends on you and don’t own a house. I would also advise you to ensure you have a lot of savings to last you through a brutal hiring period should you elect to return. Good luck!