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I was self-employed for around 7 years and finally came to the conclusion that I'm just not a very good businessman. When you're self employed, you're running the business more than coding, or doing the things that you're actually passionate about, and I didn't enjoy it. Not to mention that sometimes I'd work 15-17 hours per day, 7 days per week, for weeks on end, just to be pretty poor. Plus health insurance is a fucking nightmare without some massive corporation subsidizing it. Maybe that part is better now with the ACA and insurance market website, but idk, because I finally gave up and got a job right around the time that the ACA kicked in. Idk, part of me thinks that I could hire a business manager to do the business parts, and I could just architect solutions, but the more realistic part of me thinks they'd probably steal all of my profits while I was trying to solve coding problems.