I’m complaining but I’m also not complaining. I guess I’m a capitalist now. A slightly left of centre capitalist. But I also work. Hard.
I do scientific equipment – ground penetrating radars and similar. I started this business because I made a device when working for another company and didn’t get to own the intellectual property. Which is fair – they bankrolled it. But I wanted to own my next creation, and to do that, I needed to go independent.
It took a lot of education (7 years), experience (12 years), and capital (I wagered my entire retirement savings). I work this much because I want the business to snowball, and it is. It means I only pay myself like a student (fortunately I chose a low cost of living city to startup in), but pile up equity in lieu of salary.
I will note that this is only possible because of socialism providing the safety net that it does in Canada. I had no family wealth. My education was good and relatively cheap. I was student loan free within 5 years. I don’t worry about health care. Soon we’ll even have dental care on a national scale (2024). I pay taxes and am happy to pay it forward to the society that helped make me, provided they do so smartly. (Radical Centrist.)
But, yeah, the business model I chose doesn’t allow me sick days until we have our first employee.
I’m complaining but I’m also not complaining. I guess I’m a capitalist now. A slightly left of centre capitalist. But I also work. Hard.
I do scientific equipment – ground penetrating radars and similar. I started this business because I made a device when working for another company and didn’t get to own the intellectual property. Which is fair – they bankrolled it. But I wanted to own my next creation, and to do that, I needed to go independent.
It took a lot of education (7 years), experience (12 years), and capital (I wagered my entire retirement savings). I work this much because I want the business to snowball, and it is. It means I only pay myself like a student (fortunately I chose a low cost of living city to startup in), but pile up equity in lieu of salary.
I will note that this is only possible because of socialism providing the safety net that it does in Canada. I had no family wealth. My education was good and relatively cheap. I was student loan free within 5 years. I don’t worry about health care. Soon we’ll even have dental care on a national scale (2024). I pay taxes and am happy to pay it forward to the society that helped make me, provided they do so smartly. (Radical Centrist.)
But, yeah, the business model I chose doesn’t allow me sick days until we have our first employee.