I am an software engineer in a well known company. In free time I started working on my own IOS applications. Now I have 3 applications in AppStore.<p>Compared to my salary I get very less income from AppStore. But still I like working on my own Applications and spend a lot of time on them. Half of my brain goes into thinking about these small Apps. I know these apps wont give me comparable income to my salary.<p>So why I am paranoid about them? I am sure many of HN readers would be having the same story.<p>This is my interest? or a false hope? Or I don't like my work at my Job?<p>It would be interesting to know some psychology topics around it.
It is because you are passion driven. It's normal and you should continue to do it. In my free time I work on abstract software things that bring no money at all and still have half my brain there :)
Teamwork is fun, but in the end of the day you want a proof that you are capable of doing great things on your own. To make things worse, development can be a creative occupation. All game artists have personal pieces in their portfolios.