Ask HN: What else besides writing code or managing people?

📰 Hacker News · jvogt

Hey HN, long time lurker, hoping this awesome community can help me (and others like me) figure out the next step in my (thier) career(s). I spent 2006-2012 on three self funded ventures that didn't come to fruition, which left me tapped for spending ability, several maxed credit cards, and a job in Seattle thats not advancing me career-wise. I am starting to feel a slip in my creativity, which I think is attributed to some drop in self confidence / depression / anxiety that's been creeping up. I'm in love with business strategy, project ideas / planning, budgeting, and architecting. I love prototyping, but that leaves me with a gap in mastery of any specific technology. I'm starting to panic that I'm running out of time to "get my shit together." I have a potential opportunity to work with an incubator vetting applicant's technology. I'd take that job in a heartbeat, but they are not running yet (probably 1yr+ away) I would l

Published 3 Feb 2014
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