@cbrooks624 I am in no way or shape fit to 'advice' you on this.
Take this grain of salt, first.
Here's what I have learned in my years of work as both an employee and a [broke] founder:
- Have absolute clarity of trade offs. If you think you do, you don't. Talking to ANYONE will not help. Because...
- Building startups, much like life itself, is nonlinear. Advices shift with context. No single decision or solution works all the time. No one knows your life's whole story. A tiny omission (for example, your mental health at this very point of time) could throw the so called advisor wayyyy off.
- Be ok with getting no usable answer from anyone. Every answer will derail you.
- Be ok with loneliness. Be ok with absence of answers. Be ok with the sound of crickets at the question of 'what needs to be done now?'.
- Do whatever. Go wherever. Whatever you do, that you do. That's it. Take a consulting work, do part time, local gigs, tutoring, blue collar, whatever... you choose the extent and the intensity. None of us are qualified here to do it for you.
If there is a problem in front of you
.
and I mean right in front of you, staring like it's going to swallow you,
that's not a good time for other people's words.
I MAY BE WRONG. REMEMBER THE GRAIN OF SALT. USE YOUR DISCRETION.
Like I said, perspectives fit the moment only in specific moments.
You
decide
the trade off.
you decide
the intensity or misery of your life
you decide.
Final word: Don't listen to anyone else, not your parents, not your friends, not anyone.
For any serious founder, even truth is a distraction if it does not serve the destination.