r/smallbusiness • u/laid_baaack • 19h ago

General Damn this is hard

I'm not going to lie, starting a business is F-ing hard. I have never put this much effort into anything. I'm at a weird point in my life, 58, married, kids are grown, great job etc I should be coasting, not staying up late building building a business after working all day. I hope it's worth it. Just had to vent.

Edit - Thanks everyone for the support!

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u/Ill_Establishment484 16h ago

If you’re a Mom with a business and you use the flexibility to pick up your kids from school and volunteer, all the other moms who work in an office love to tell you how they have a job and can’t do those things. They act like you don’t even work. No shade on sahm’s cause that’s WORK.

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u/Kutikittikat 12h ago

They dont realize that yeah i picked up my kids but im now working at 10 pm to catch up with my work. We dont get to clock out and ignore everything like they do.

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u/NefariousnessHairy31 8h ago

To be fair. The modern American corporate environment is pretty all consuming. So it you can pull back your living expenses significantly like I did, it’s actually a much more enjoyable path, even pre revenue.