How do you cope with the fustration and depression of not working on your business full time

Heyy Yuri, I totally understand how you're feeling, it can be tough juggling a fulltime job and trying to build a successful business on the side. It's completely normal to feel overwhelmed and frustrated at times.

One thing that has helped me in the past is to create a detailed plan for how I want to eventually transition from my day job to my business. This might involve setting specific goals, figuring out a timeline, and identifying any resources or support I'll need along the way.

It's also important to take care of yourself during this time. Make sure you're getting enough rest, eating well, and taking breaks when you need them. Don't be afraid to reach out to someone if you need to talk about what you're going through.

Just remember, building a successful business takes time and effort, so don't beat yourself up if things don't happen as quickly as you'd like. Stay focused on your goals, keep working hard, and don't forget to take care of yourself along the way.

You got this🔥

I have a full time job and am doing a side project that so far has not been a major hit. My time is very limited - 5-10h per week, a.k.a. part time weekend and an odd evening. That said, I enjoy my full time job. What you describe was something I thought hard about before I started - how would I react if my side project is a success or failure. Here are some ground rules I set for myself, hopefully they can help, even if just for consideration.

1. Have fun. I deliberately don't want my side-project to consume all my time. I'm quite privileged to not depend on the outcome of it all, so I let myself wander and experiment, even if it doesn't lead to short term success.
2. Learn. Similar to (1) I set myself up to focus on learning from the experience, not to necessarily succeed.
3. Have overlapping goals. My project (codeherald.com) has at least three goals: be a saas product, be a boilerplate codebase for other ideas, be a playground to refresh some of my rusty skills for my full time job.
4. Set realistic/quantize your expectations. It feels good when you have time to continuously work on something, because the result gradually becomes more and more visible. Whereas moonlighting on a side project requires putting things away constantly. I had to quantize expectations as much as possible. For example, I have a list of really bite sized improvements/actions that I can complete in 1-2 hours. Gives a sense of achievement without big time investment.
5. Keep a diary. Usually every 1-2 weeks I do a bullet list of things I've done so far, and various achievements. It helped me reflect a couple of times , when I felt like I was not making progress: I did, I just forgot that it was in a less visible area. This is not a public blog, but a document for myself.

Q. How do you cope with the frustration and depression of not working on your business full time?

A. Just suck it up and get on with it. Some people don't have food and shelter.

I would say it takes time but you need to experiment more and pick your tasks based on effort it needs vs ROI. I wrote about it here Zero To Founder

But everyone goes through this. Some recommendations.

• Start small if you are getting burnt out - may be start with a simple newsletter, Info product.
• Experiment more and research more (You can check Micro SaaS Ideas for more pointers on current trends)
• Plan time (Use techniques like Pomodoro)
• With full time job, its not easy. Block 2-3 hours either morning or evening and see what you can accomplish.
• Sunk cost is real. Take a conscious call on what you need to quit and move fast.

I get the same feeling, I try to cope up with it by setting a goal for my business. For eg: If my side hustle/business reaches 10 paid users by doing part-time, I will quit my job because I have economics sorted in my mind if I come full-time I will be able to take this to 20-30 paid customers and that would be more than my current income.

Sooner or later it comes to a point, where you leave that job and start working on your business fulltime. Just be patient. You are on the right path 😌

Retaining full time allows you to pay for / hire out the things you can’t do or don’t want to do. Also affords you more opportunities to miss on your idea and move on to the next.

Write down what I'm gonna work on when I get home from school, but honestly it never really goes away🤣