These days I'm feeling the weight of a lot of conflicting priorities.
My Bitcoin work is fulfilling, but not profitable enough to avoid needing other income or drawing down from my stack.
My fiat job is relatively boring, somewhat useful to society, and pays the bills, in exchange for my time. I could quit, but then I'd have to spend my Bitcoin. I'd have more time for the Bitcoin stuff, though.
My family life is fulfilling, and I want to spend as much time with my family as possible. Unfortunately, this is at the expense of the other two priorities, and I can't help but feeling that if I work hard now, I will have more time for my family and friends in the future.
I know I could take the leap and quit the fiat world, but that feels somewhat selfish. Why stop doing something I'm good at that lets me keep stacking? Am I stealing from my future, my family's future, if I do that?
I feel like this will all come to a breaking point quite soon. I might need to make some major changes. I don't know what that looks like.
How do you balance competing priorities like this?
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You fafo.
Good answer!
That's one of the options. Maybe possible soon. Thanks for your thoughts!
I would work the fiat job for 5 more years and then quit :D
Yeah, that's definitely the sensible thing. It always seems 5 years away.
Family first always. You already have Bitcoin. Bitcoin work is a hobby.
Damn, I have the same problem, even though I don't have anything stable in the bitcoin world right now. I could do a lot of things though, not necessarily technical either.
I started to split my time between my 2 most important assets. Lifetime&corn. I cut out everything else. Relentless. I channel my time either towards my lifetime (for me, family, friendships, etc) and the other half I channel my time and energy entirely towards bitcoin. Significantly improved my life. Energy finds its way 🧡
I took the leap and left fiat life behind within 6 months of discovering Bitcoin. I figured that with my growing purchasing power and my low time preference, I’d be better off spending all my time with my kids while they’re still young. So far, nearly 4 years later, I am very pleased with my choice, hard as it was at the time. Live in the now.
The difficulty I'm seeing is that I can channel my energy into the "corn system" or into stacking more corn. I'm trying to do both right now. It's hard.
I hope I can take the leap soon too!
I tried both too. That’s why I was giving this note. The moment i changed and channeled my time to btc network only energy found it’s way 🧡🫂. I can only recommend. Great things might just happen 💜🗽
4 years ago I said 5 more years, I still say 5 more. It will come, but probably later than expected. I feel okay even if I don't stack as hard anymore, I try to work less instead to spend time with my wife and daugther.
This is sort of the approach I'm currently taking. The problem is that if I take my foot off the fiat job gas, I put it onto my various Bitcoin projects. I feel like I need the fiat job fully out of the picture to feel like my work/life balance is in check.
That's what I want to be doing, definitely.
You can just do things LFG 🧡💪🏼🗽
LFG!
From what I’ve seen of you, you’re made of the right stuff! 🫡
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I only have a fiat job so maybe easier to find balance between only 2 things. Let's hope the next 5 years can take some of the pressure off for you to take the leap to do what you desire 🙏