I made something. A dating app from start to finish. I’ve never made it this far before. For those with severe ADHD like me, you will know how monumental an accomplishment actually completing something is. (I wasn’t diagnosed until I was almost 30 so my life has been on hard mode).

But yet, I feel drained. My undergrad is in finance, my masters is in CS, and personality wise I’m extremely extroverted and bombastic. I felt this combo would help me more easily go it alone. And on a purely hard skill analysis it might be. But on a morale basis it is difficult.

I recently was able to get a day job which is vitally needed, but also makes giving up the day dream of entrapenurship much more tempting cause coding jobs can be veeeery lucrative. This is also why I couldn’t get a co-founder. All my friends from grad school that I would trust with such a big role got very high paying jobs out of grad school.

So I’m curious for other people who have been at this crossroads. How did you keep going when the morale tank runs dry? Did you pivot to something more enjoyable and more social? Take a long break? Push through? Call it a day and enjoy your day job?