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I feel like the question is wrong.

I used to run a profitable one-person online business. And I felt miserable every time I had to get up at night to fix server issues, or when I had to do customer support from my laptop while I was supposed to be on vacation instead.

Now that we're a team, I feel so much better about the whole thing, even though profit margins are slightly lower than before.



I work for a large ISP as a software dev and still have to wake up at 11am to fix server issues, I also got called to fix something on Dec 31 while I was on leave. I'd rather be working after hours for myself than for my a-hole boss


While I don't know your usual sleep schedule, waking up at 11am does not sound too bad to me.


I know quite a few people who answer emails on vacation and who do on call rotations at their "normal" jobs. So I think part of the appeal of these types of questions is that the individual gets to reap the benefits of their extraordinary effort instead of passing the profit upstream.


What is your business can you please elaborate. Its fine. You started with 1 person thats great accomplishment to have team.




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