If it doesn't work and you don't earn enough, build your shit.
During your career you'll be able to build 3-5 relatively big projects. And about 10-30 small projects and ideas.
And if you're lucky enough, you won't worry about that anymore.
I earned x3 salary 5 years ago. I had freedom, and I could work 5-10 hours a week. But finally my project has failed. Lesson learned. Now I'm far behind these figures.
But I keep on trying building shit. Hopefully, I'll be able to turn it to successful business one day.
Please describe the "shit" you would like us to build. I'm asking seriously.
Are you saying we should build a big open source project like Angular or Rails? What are the odds that either of us could build the next Rails though? So are you saying that even if it "fails" and it doesn't displace rails that this is good for your career?
Basically could you explain what you're trying got convey in really concrete terms?
I'm not disagreeing with you, I think you might be onto something or have a useful perspective, I'm just not sure what you're really saying.
I'm talking about your own SaaS projects. It's relatively easy to build something on your own, if you're developer. Some kind of tool for business. When you can charge monthly for your product.
Even a very busy person like me can find ~1-2 hours daily for development, and you can think about how to implement what you want in car, bart, on the way home, etc.
No matter how much time it takes, 1 year, 2, 3.
If it doesn't work and you don't earn enough, build your shit.
During your career you'll be able to build 3-5 relatively big projects. And about 10-30 small projects and ideas.
And if you're lucky enough, you won't worry about that anymore.
I earned x3 salary 5 years ago. I had freedom, and I could work 5-10 hours a week. But finally my project has failed. Lesson learned. Now I'm far behind these figures.
But I keep on trying building shit. Hopefully, I'll be able to turn it to successful business one day.