What are your dreams?
- Sometimes in this life you can find yourself spending all your time supporting someone elses dream.
- In crypto it's easy to become infatuated with someone elses project, and lend them your support.
- But is this fulfilling emotionally?
- Is this fulfilling financially?
No
- For me the answer was no.
- I woke up one day and decided that I was supporting a project which didn't recognize my worth or support my initiatives to help, even if I copied the project playbook I got nothing back, nothing in return.
- Some would say the project owes you nothing, and I say that's interesting. - I provide my time, my effort, my hardwork, and the project doesn't owe me anything? Okay.. if that's the case..why am I here?
- If the product is free, you are the product.
_ If my work is rewarded with nothing, then it is valued the same as nothing. - So look at yourself objectively, if your time and talent are not being valued you should move on.
- So as I walk to my car after another flight to an outer island where I have worked for 11 years, 10 months, I face the reality that I am not valued, and perhaps I am taken for granted.
- So I will build something of my own to compete with those who don't value me.
- After all, if my talent and time are not valuable, then I present no threat to them.
Sad
- I am sad that a company doesn't care for it's employeees, it just doesn't so don't try to convince me otherwise.
- I am tired of the same stuff, different day, and the endless cycle of new job, new boss, hard work, achievement, then discard the people who built it and enjoy the revenue and good will they built.
Build your own
- I always enjoyed the employed model, and disliked the total committment required for 15 years of my own company. - Then I did the independent contractor thing, the aspect of your own business, combined with some aspects of an employee, and truly what I thought was a balance of the best of the two worlds.
- But it is dependent on contracts and honest actors.
- When the contract sucks, and your not dealng with honest actors, it sucks and doesn't work well.
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Saddness and despair
Sadness, only saddness, madness, only madness, why, why, why???
Pretty Sad
It's nothing short of soul sucking when you give something your best shot and find yourself feeling undervalued and unappreciated anyhow... I think it is illuminating how many studies have shown that just basic employee appreciation can have MASSIVE effects on a company's productivity and profit margins.
I hope you find a balance between self-employment/contracting and a traditional gig that brings you joy and prosperity. It's awesome that you recognize the need for such things; so many of us rot away at a job we hate until retirement. Why stuff all of our hard work into some jerk's pockets?
Soul Sucking
This is a great way to describe the way you feel when your hard work is not appreciated.
I don't know why, but I think humans sould intuitively feel the need to recognize the hardwork of others, and failing to do so is problematic. Either your to busy to notice, which is self defeating or you are equipped to care, which is sad.
Soul Sucking is right.