I’m 50yr old startup founder. Life is lonely I miss my family but won’t go back to corporate

I’m a 50 yr old founder. Life can get lonely, I miss my family but I won’t go back to corporate life.
This is my message from me to others making sacrifices for their family 🙏
Substack Article Behind this Episode:
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Sang @LinkedIn:
/ sangyshin
FoFty Website:
fofty.net

[@Ratchada11]

Balls of steel going deep online. My hat is off to you sir.

[@foftylife]

Thanks for the support, it means a lot!

[@willp1653]

Keeping it real. I appreciate the candidness. But also showing how to make a hard decision which so many arm chair critics have no clue how to do. Respect. Faith.

[@foftylife]

Thank you so much for your support!

[@hadeshecatonchires5510]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Very insightful as we travel on the self-carved business path.

[@foftylife]

Let's support each other along the way!

[@nikolamar]

Keep fighting and make every moment count!

[@foftylife]

Thank you for the support!!

[@Adam-yf3ss]

Why why why are you living apart from your family? This seems needlessly destructive. Especially since you’re founding a philosophy and not a company that will make direct money.

[@foftylife]

sometimes, cost of living causes families to live apart

[@Friday4]

Stories like this help more of us than you Think Thank you for sharing it.

[@foftylife]

Thank you for the positive feedback!

[@gumballdegree]

I've been trying to make money online for a couple years now. I'm almost 40. And it's REALLY hard.

[@foftylife]

Definitely not easy, but perservere my friend!

[@gumballdegree]

@@foftylife yep... I'm not a programmer or anything but I've found ways to really automate a lot of my approach saving me tons from hiring VAs. I continue to improve with the motto of "work less automate more" approach

[@foftylife]

@@gumballdegree productivity and efficiency gains matter

[@TacBlades]

Family before everything else, money, career, dreams everything. You can never replace the time you have with your family. I changed carrers to maximise the time I spend with my family and it's been the best investment in my life. This message is not for social media it's only for your family so why put it online ?

[@foftylife]

Thanks for sharing your opinion. In my opinion, this message is not only for my family but for anyone else going through a similar struggle.

[@Greedvault]

what is stopping him from getting a leave of absence and returning home to see his wife one last time?

[@foftylife]

meetings with inbound clients from the US to SG, but I made it back to my family last night =D

[@David-wy7mn]

This is tough. would you ever consider changing fofty to follow a philosophy but also focus on making money at the same time?

[@foftylife]

Thanks, yes - it's actually one of FoFty's Principles: "There is no shame in doing well while doing good" - it's just early days and product development mode right now.

[@MrTimetravler]

❤are you hiring? I am American in texas love to have the life you have travel internationally once in awhile but work at home or remote what type of business do you do?

[@foftylife]

Not yet, but I hope to in the future :)

[@Brisamars-q1c]

Have you watched Doobie and Goobie ‘s viral 10 million viewers blog on why he quit being a neurosurgeon? Please do.

[@foftylife]

Yes, it's an amazing story! I'm no neurosurgeon and am a later stage in life, but life is life at any age after all ✌

[@jamesvo8435]

What is your startup?

[@foftylife]

I am building a program to factory reset yourself using the FoFty ideology, and using the program on myself so people can see its effects. If I succeed, it will be due to the program I am building so that others can see how the program can make an impact as I practice what I preach and document the progress along the way. The program will eventually be shared and deployed to "factory reset centers" in different places, possibly starting in Bali and eventually other parts of the world.

[@loneranger707]

How is your start up going? Will you hit cash flow positivity soon?

[@Adam-yf3ss]

His website says it’s not even a company or a startup. It’s a philosophy. There is no straight path to profitability.

[@foftylife]

Still in product development mode, aligning with partners to deploy for the pilot - in the meantime, keeping afloat with alternative income streams 🙏

[@gnuemacs1166]

That’s y it’s better to study and work at home

[@foftylife]

Ideally, I agree... but then, life sometimes deviates from the ideals

[@gnuemacs1166]

@@foftylife often not as advantageous leaving one countries as people think, what counts is standard of living, not how much u make, plenty of poor and working poor in America, plus family and friends is important, people don’t calculate money correctly, knowledge is a different problem, but again America is closing bookstores for example, it’s a blood bath with imported Indian labour leading to inferior products and crash

[@foftylife]

yes, that's why every decade or so i end up uprooting and moving to a different country, following how th world evolves

[@gnuemacs1166]

@@foftylife evolution is not always good I’d rather have my country and culture which needs to be defended and not let degrade to the lowest common denominator

[@foftylife]

to each his own, which is the beauty of life itself - i couldn't imagine a world where every human had the exact same preferences and/or was forced to follow a singular path

[@007thx1138]

Your kids will not remember your success as an entrepreneur, only the times you were there with them. I'm not trying to be mean, just give my honest advice.

[@foftylife]

This is true

[@tankman20064]

Get a job. Don't be a fool.

[@foftylife]

Thanks for the advice