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It's the same for almost any profession I think. As long as you can't decide what to do with your own time, and you work from the supervision of someone else, you will always feel like that. Maybe you are better off trying to create your own business instead.

Or become a freelancer, and switch jobs every two years or so. It isn't easy either way.

But there are other jobs where you would be a better fit, so I think you probably should switch jobs, and avoid the risk of getting burned out.

There where you are currently at, it's not going to get any better, right?

Yes I'm definitively the chief growth hacker, I take care of a lot of the marketing activities myself. But I need help, preferably from someone with some relevant experience growing a SaaS company.

In your view, what are some of the core competencies that as growth person should have? Looking forward to hear your thoughts, thank you.

Hi everyone, anything that you would like to share about your experience hiring growth professionals would be tremendously helpfpul.

Anything from job boards, interview tips, the type of deal you propose them, do you hire them as an employee or offer equity, or anything else you can think of.

Thank you so much for any insight in this matter.

Here are the 5 key distinctive features of Qwik:

- Server-side rendering by default: Qwik server-side rendering works out of the box, without special configuration or extra libraries. Server-side rendering is the default, you don't have to turn it on.

- Resumability: Qwik applications are resumable, meaning that they continue on the client where the server left off, so the client does not have to re-render the component tree again after page load (no flickering effects, etc.). There is no need to do manual state transfer between the server and the client, Qwik takes care of that transparently.

- Lowest possible Time To Interactive: The initial Javascript payload of a Qwik application remains constant as the application grows, which is a unique property of Qwik. Only a very small amount of Javascript needs to be delivered on application startup (the Qwik Loader), giving Qwik applications a startup performance that is very close to a plain static page.

- Fine-grained, automatic lazy-loading: Lazy loading is completely automated, and done transparently by the framework. Qwik decides the lazy loading boundaries of the application at build time transparently, and splits up the application into fine-grained chunks. For example, the code for a click handler can be lazy-loaded only when the button is clicked for the first time.

- Proxy-based change detection: Qwik change detection is very convenient to use as it's possible to simply mutate data directly just like if we were handling plain mutable Javascript objects. Qwik change detection has all the performance of an "on-push" style change detection system, without any of the drawbacks associated with having to use immutable objects.

Don't overthink it. You can validate the idea using SEO tools, check if the competitors have traffic and do some detective work to see if they are viable companies.

Check the SEO space, and see how many people are running ads on the main search terms, how hard is it to rank for the the main keywords. Check if forums exists, and discount coupons for similar products in marketplaces, check for similar products on product hunt and all the other product websites like Appsumo, Capterra, etc.

Look for blogs, Youtube channels, Facebook groups, subreddits. Join the communities and post there, ask questions. Interact one on one with at least 15 or 20 people and ask them about their needs.

You can do all this in a couple of weeks in the evening, without even writing a single line of code, and validate your idea.

Regarding the legal part, unless you are directly competing with your employer, they couldn't care less.

And even then, a lot of companies are created by people that learned the industry by working for other companies.

Your boss does not care about your side project, as long as you get the job done. But for you to feel better, don't put your name on it until you have quit your job, it's the internet you can still be anonymous.

No company is going to waste their time and expensive legal resources gratuitously suing you for a side project, unless it's something blatant that directly impacts their bottom line.

I wouldn't tell your boss about your side-project either. He will likely just see it as a sign of lack of dedication, that your priorities are elsewhere, and a tell sign that you will leave soon anyway.

So if they are on the fence on keeping you, that might trigger a decision.

Hello, thank you, I think I'm going to try deel, several people have mentioned it.

And what is your experience with deel, did you like it? Any downsides?

Do you go with contractors or employees with deel, and why do you prefer one vs the other?

I'm thinking of trying contractors first.

And can we hire a person for years as a contractor, or will we eventually have to upgrade them to an employee due to legal reasons, how does that work? Thank you for any insight on this.

Thank you for commenting, that would be great news. But is it really that simple?

What about work contracts, and should I ask them to issue a company invoice explicitly?

A company invoice can always be included as expenses, right?

Switch jobs and get a 5 to 10% increase, and keep doing it for a while, this way you will retire earlier and the excitement and optimism of the new job will keep you going for the first year at least.

Persue an alternative that you find interesting and learn how to make a living out of it.

You can create a small SaaS company on some niche, freelance remotely, get creative and learn how to invest, maybe invest a little bit in crypto, take what you have an invest in real estate buy a studio and rent it and start making some extra income.

Make a plan, there has got to be a way.

Look around you, do you see anyone over 45? This means they all figured out an alternative, so with time, so will you, but don't make the mistake of thinking that you are "trapped", you have a lot of alternatives and choices.