9-5 has destroyed my entrepreneurial spirit

I started freelancing back in 2011, beside my university studies, I was doing small gigs at Fiverr now and then, tried Upwork (was called oDesk back then).

After graduating in 2013, I decided to be a full-time freelancer, and not thinking about having a 9-5 job. I was mainly providing web development services and I specialized in developing e-commerce solutions.

In that period and till 2019, I was launching a product after another, some of them make a light success and most of them failed, but the good part I was not stopping for any reason from building and launching new products.

In May 2019, a talent acquisition hunter reached out offering me backend developer position, which seems very interesting, especially that it was a new and well funded startup. I decided to give it try, thinking I will learn a lot about entrepreneurship.

I joined the company, and I must confess, I have learned a lot on both technical and management side, but unfortunately, I got used to the income safety, but most importantly, in somehow, I lost entrepreneurial spirit.

After spending 3 years and a half in that company, I moved to a new country where I have no network in. I tried to find a job in the IT field, but it was really hard especially with hiring philosophy here. So I wanted to get back to entrepreneurship.

Unfortunately, I found myself following the same working pattern in companies: Thinking, Planning, Starting, Not finishing, Start looking for 9-5 job and LOOP.

Everytime I try to build a product, I found myself doing planning instead of doing.