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Originally Posted by KatoKrazy
I'm a software engineer and this is happening to me now -- it sucks.
Out of curiosity, is it because you're afraid of losing your job or because it feels like a waste of time to work on something that's going to fail anyway?
Part of our business is helping people develop MVPs and sometimes we also do the implementation. With that I follow a very pragmatic approach. We tell them that we don't think it's going to work that way and if they want to continue anyway, we continue. Two years ago our best young full stack engineer worked on an MVP for a large car manufacturer who put mid 7-figures into that project. A couple months in I told the client that their business plan wouldn't work because the numbers just didn't add up. They wanted to keep going and I made the mistake of telling our guy about the situation. Apparently that stressed him out so much that he quit a couple months later. I'll never do that again.
The thing with poker as a profession is that it's extremely easy to quit, especially if you made enough money in the past. Unless you have a staking agreement or something like that you can literally just not open the client on your computer anymore or not drive to the casino without having to tell anyone or other consequences. If you quit your real job, that usually has a direct impact on other people.