eanthy

I often read here of some success stories about people making thousands off of their business idea (usually people who never even got into the 9-5 grind in the first place).

99% of the projects I see of these successful people are things that I would personally never pay for and are some very specific things that I would think already have a solution and I'm genuinely surprised that anyone is paying for. Basically they boil down to a web app offering subscription service to make some menial task slightly more comfortable.

1. How did you come up with this idea? Is it something you actually care about or found out it would make cash? Personally if I am to make something similar it rather be about something I care about and would use, sadly I don't care about many things.

2. How do you actually find the time/motivation to start some side hustle when you spend 8+ hours in work (even if it's from home). Last thing I feel like doing after work is more work.

Basically my company is only starting to consider the possibility of eventually having the thoughts of working from home... Based in London and things could easily escalate here to the same situation as Italy. Should I simply not come from next week and WFH regardless of what they say or be a patient lamb?

I have always been back end dev with little front end experience but noticed a lot of jobs now are full stack and even pay better than back end. At the same time I always thought it's best to specialise in some tech than being a generalist. I am thinking in specialising into data engineering but would that harm my opportunities and salary as compared to full stack?