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Ask HN: Leaving to work on my own. Tips?

I’m soon 21 year old with no job, dropped out of education and living with my parents doing freelancing

I’m doing all i can to not get full-time employed. My biggest fear is mediocracy

I want to live a purposeful life and my biggest wish is to contribute to something meaningful and useful to others

Unfortunately in reality my life depends on meaningless work for corporate overlords

With NDA’s and IP-ownership clauses, i don’t own anything and i can’t talk about anything

My plan currently is to pour 100% of my resources into my own ideas. And at this point i don’t care whether they fail or not, i just want to try

I can get back to school and wage-slavery at any point in my life later

Do you have any tips? My parents are very upset. Maybe i should try to get investors on board so i could stop worrying about money for a while? Otherwise my existence makes no sense

33 points riskyattitude 4 years ago 46 comments

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