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Been working for a startup for about 5 months while I bootstrap my own stuff to ramen profitability and I feel like I can get away with not working as much as I should at my day job. I don't really enjoy my relatively new job (but who does), which consists of working on shitty enterprise software, on one of the worst code bases I've ever seen (what’s new).

Managers are very hands-off here, not many meetings either, outside of a weekly stand-up. I get just enough done each week to seem mildly productive to management which seems to be working.

Thing is, I spend a good 40% of my time working on growing a couple Android apps and a SaaS business I've built which make up ~40% of my income so that I can finally quit working for The Man and focus on my dream full time.

Posting this to get some thoughts from people who may have been or currently are where I'm at. I get that it's wrong, but that hasn't stopped me from doing it.

Am I the only one that does this?

I am burned out, I hate my job, I despise my boss (terrible ethics, no drive, prideful, hard-headed and a micro-manager), and I honestly want to write my resignation letter today (as in right fucking now).

I have been working on a startup on the side (and on the clock, because fuck it, idgaf anymore) for over a year, and am weeks away from transitioning from early access to full launch, if I can just put in quality time to wrap it up (billing, marketing site, etc).

My FT job has been taxing me lately, having to put in 100% to meet deadlines. Meaning: progress towards my startup has stalled the last few months. I work on it after I get off, but I'm usually too spent to get any meaningful work done.

I'm not charging customers yet, but it is a B2B business and I have made pricing clear and discussed it up-front. I don't know how many early access users will actually convert, of course.

I believe the idea is validated (500 early access users (with varying levels of engagement) + lots of interest from larger companies). But nothing is validated until it starts making money, I know.

I have 3-4/mo runway in savings. Have a wife and 1 kid.

I know at least a few HN users have gone through something like this. Maybe it didn't turn out well, maybe it did. Could you share?