touristworker

My dream is to build my own product and I feel like I am ready to start, and I have some ideas I analysed, researched and thought a lot for some years. But, I still have to collect some amount of money that makes it possible.

Thank you for the honest reply, I really appreciate it and it makes me the feeling that people eventually face this problem, and hopefully can see a solution.

Looks like if I go that way, I will go down even more in how I work, rather than raise the bar and try to achieve that.

Yes, I am looking for ALL possible ways to simplify my work. I use WebStorm which is really good about auto-suggesting, refactoring and renaming variables or functions. I really love it.

As what relates to the 80/20 rule, I will have to review it again, even though I hoped I did all the possible optimisations, may be there are more.

If you mean any kind of physical or mental issues I could face recently - definitely not. I have a family with 3 kids and my beloved wife supporting me.

I suppose it can be a result of me thinking of my career and what I can achieve by what actions. And, probably, I can admit that I am not as hot these days about making others' dreams coming true rather than some my dream, which makes me not so passionate about spending 12 hours a day to deliver some code.

These days in relations with the employer I think more about having a balance between what I get and what I give, rather than hoping for the boss to notice me and rewarding me a high position or an equity.

This allows me to plan how much income I can put aside in order to eventually start my own product/business.

By asking your question you made me to sit for quite a long time and think about that "other reason", it's quite insightful, thanks!

I do some IoT pet projects and getting deeper into soldering and wiring (just as an amateur) with ESP32, Arduino, Raspberry, and all things around to build toys, agriculture, home automation and other kinds of projects.

These can be indeed exciting to build and work with, probably I can contact some guys working there.

Thanks for the advice!

It's enjoyable to think I am good and they are bad. That means I don't have to change anything, but in practice it won't help me to get next good-paying and mentally rewarding job. So, I prefer to think I am doing something wrong, or I have something in myself to improve and by doing that I take things under control.

And in the end, if there is something I can improve and I perform steps for the improvement, I have more hope I am getting better and valuable as a professional.

On the other hand, if I am good, and they are bad, what do I do? Find a `good` employer? What if I won't?

I agree, I went away from OOP in JS/TS years ago and don't see any need to use `this` these days with the functional approach.

Requirements, unfortunately, often are not clear from the very start, and more than that change, and actually their change is the part of agile processes, so I cannot dictate business to change this approach.

For tests and investigating bugs - totally agree, I always try to adopt the technique of providing the stakeholders with steps to reproduce a bug, including the very smallest factors - user/login, resetting data to the initial state before reproducing, checking the OS, date, language and so on.

In regards of the bad env, I try to improve it step by step. Even a small step is good, because it's always better to go through 15 steps rather than 16 to start app, to perform some user operation etc.

Thanks for your notes!