Poll: What is your professional status?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342979

by ashishk • 18 years ago

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ram1024• 18 years ago

where's the option for working, but soon making a startup? :D

ashishk2• 18 years ago

done!

netcan• 18 years ago

Maybe there should be another poll: 'What is your startup experience?' Work at one, have worked at one, Will start one soon, will start one in the distant future.....

ryanwaggoner• 18 years ago

Doing consulting and freelance work but leaving that all behind next month to pursue my startup full-time. Crazy times ahead ;-)

greaterscope• 18 years ago

in my case, the timeline for "leaving to work on a startup soon" is hopefully within 6 months. or maybe i should just take out a loan?

markbao• 18 years ago

Student, startup(ish)

BigZaphod• 18 years ago

I'm professionally awesome. Which one does that fit under?

run4yourlives• 18 years ago

Working, moonlighting on my own project

MicahWedemeyer• 18 years ago

Yep, same here. Been doing that for about 3 years now.

I explain it as Bruce Wayne vs Batman. When people ask me what I do, it comes down to "...but at night, my real work begins!"

thomasmallen• 18 years ago

Work for a non-profit.

timcederman• 18 years ago

Working at a startup that got acquired not an option?

emmett• 18 years ago

That would be "not at a startup", I think.

iigs2• 18 years ago

Working (as an employee) at a company that was a startup in 2004. Selected "... but not at a startup" because it's pretty hard to call > 1000 employees and billions in investment a startup anymore :)

a-priori2• 18 years ago

Depends... is it profitable yet?

iigs2• 18 years ago

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :)

shawndrost• 18 years ago

Unemployed :D

lsc2• 18 years ago

professional?

professionals wear suits.

I'm running a company, but I still work days as a contractor to pay for it.

BFalkner2• 18 years ago

The best professionals I know don't wear suits.

lsc2• 18 years ago

please, then, define what 'professional' means.

a-priori2• 18 years ago

Full-time school + part-time work (not at a startup)

dmpayton• 18 years ago

There is a big difference between working AT a startup (an employee) and working ON a startup (a founder), IMO. Any chance we can get an update to reflect that?

Anyways, I chose 'Working at a startup', though I'd like to someday work ON a startup (as well as become a student again and finish school).

ashishk2• 18 years ago

good point. added it, although i think it might be a bit late =)

DaniFong• 18 years ago

At first I thought "Wow. Am I the only one so far to be working on a startup as a founder?"

But then I discovered that this option was just added. Heh.

zacharydanger• 18 years ago

Recently laid off. :]

rmason• 18 years ago

Employee working at a startup. I've previously founded two startups and I do agree that being an employee is quite different.

MaysonL• 18 years ago

You forgot retired. I guess I'll have to use unemployed and working at a startup as a founder (they're both somewhat true).

Caligula• 18 years ago

Working at a startup, but I prefer to brag that I am unemployed+living in my parents basement.

ashleyw• 18 years ago

Unemployed, Freelance, Hacking, and on a break from being a Student.

Don't do much work freelancing, just enough to pay for my essentials, and mainly spend my time hacking and working on my own small projects. My plans are to finish school next year, but that could change — we will see what the next year throws at me. :)

Poll: What is your professional status?

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