¶ Balancing Day Jobs with Honeybadger
One just clear demarcation point was just when it got to the point that we couldn't focus on our day jobs as well as we wanted to because Honey Badger was... taking up enough of our thoughts and time. You know, we would have some sort of fire happening with the Honey Badger server, and we'd have to go and switch to that, right, on our lunch break. And eventually got to the point, it's like, can't keep doing this. And if you want to be honest with ourselves, we're not giving 100%.
to our employer, we got to leave, right? It's just not fair to them to not be committed to what they're doing. We wanted to stay with our employer. We liked our job. We wanted to have both. But we realized that Honey Badger was actually becoming popular enough that we had to spend more time focused on it than we had anticipated.
¶ Switching to Honeybadger Full-Time
So that, to me, was a sign. Okay, we should leave the job. Let's focus on getting Honey Badger. And that was promising. After how many months have you switched to full-time? There was this little gap, unfortunately, between leaving the full-time job and having Honey Badger pay us a full-time salary. One of the things that I really, really wanted to do was not go back to freelancing. And one of the things that we ended up doing was going back to freelancing.
That gave us the time and the revenue we needed to be able to continue to bootstrap ourselves to actually having full-time salary. Star and I left our full-time employment in the summer of 2013, if I remember correctly. So about a year after we launched. And that's the point where I was like, well, we just got to focus on this because there's something there. And it was probably summer of 2014 before we gave up our last bit of freelancing. Thank you for listening.
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