Completely agree. I worked as a salesman for years, and the immediate feedback of someone choosing to take the product I was selling them really boosted my moral. The more I sold in a day the happier I was when I went home, the less I sold the more I was disappointed. But either way when I was done I was done and I didn't need to worry about something hanging over my head, I was able to relax.
These days I'm no longer working for others and I'm slowly writing my own book on Bitcoin. I'm doing rather well and have almost 45k words so far, but I feel pressure to write all the time even if I'm having writers block. It feels like I NEED to finish the book soon to be able to help more people see what Bitcoin is than would otherwise happen without my book. But it's an unfair and unrealistic pressure I'm putting on myself, and I try to remember that taking more time allows me to offer the world a more refined product. I often think about how you took 5 years to write Broken Money, which was extremely well done.
If I could one day work a job 10 - 20 hours a week, maybe as a volunteer or on a part time basis, I would prefer something working directly with other people with more immediate feedback as I enjoy it so much more than working on the computer by myself.
TheBitcoinBattery
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