You should not compare your own ideas to others. If an idea is extremely stupid but at the same time it gets you going in the morning you should stick to it.
Some of the most useful inventions that we use today every day have been made by very stubborn people who were told thousands of times that their idea was stupid.
I still have the motivation and desire to work on some very interesting and super hard stuff one day -- and I am 42. You should get back to that enthusiasm. Maybe that business' ideas and actual products are much more useful and interesting on a general socially-accepted level. That doesn't mean that your thing isn't the best in the world to work on for you.
So IMO get back to doing your own stuff when you have the time and energy for it.
>Some of the most useful inventions that we use today every day have been made by very stubborn people who were told thousands of times that their idea was stupid.
That's true; Zuckerberg's parents told him that Facebook idea is stupid and that he should get his Harvard degree. Larry and Sergey couldn't sell Google to Excite for $350k because Excite's managers thought Google was unnecessary.
I appreciate the sentiment. Truth is my ideas stopped getting me going in the morning because the dayjob feels like such a bigger better more interesting opportunity.
I’m sure exciting ideas will come again. Until then “Enjoying my dayjob too much” isn’t a bad place to be :)
I agree and I am happy for you that you have that going for you. Personally for 20.5 years of career I have only had 2-3 short-term contracts that truly interested me.
Some of the most useful inventions that we use today every day have been made by very stubborn people who were told thousands of times that their idea was stupid.
I still have the motivation and desire to work on some very interesting and super hard stuff one day -- and I am 42. You should get back to that enthusiasm. Maybe that business' ideas and actual products are much more useful and interesting on a general socially-accepted level. That doesn't mean that your thing isn't the best in the world to work on for you.
So IMO get back to doing your own stuff when you have the time and energy for it.