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I agree with the gist of your post, but: > That is, you'll work years and years and years with lower pay, work more hours, ... > And if you do go back to cor
by mavelikara 10y ago
I agree with the gist of your post, but:
> That is, you'll work years and years and years with lower pay, work more hours,
...
> And if you do go back to corporate, watch them lowball you on salary and position.
_You_ underpaid yourself for years and years, bootstrapping your startup. If you had succeeded, you'd end up with way more money than your peers who chose to stay in corporate jobs. If so, it is not fair to expect to have the _same_ salary and position as your corporate peers, when you come back vanquished. While you were learning skills to bootstrap your dream startup, your corporate peers were learning skills useful for the corporation - they get higher pay hence.
If any of the skills you learned during your bootstrapping days are useful in the corporate world - and it very often is - you'd surely get rewarded for it sooner than later. But don't expect to be rewarded for it the day you start back again at the new job.
- ithinkinstereo 10y agoIt's not really about expecting the same salary and position. My point was more about how corporations don't know how to rate / value / judge your bootstrapping experience and thus will, by default, likely "lowball" you. I agree that this is rational on their end. Note that this point applies more to non-technical roles. This will still happen with engineers, but less so since it's easier to quantify technical skills. I can see how my point came across as entitled. That was not my intent.
- cunac 10y agoopposite might be a true as well, bootstrapping founder might have unrealistic valuation of their experience and value it provides to the corporation. Most likely as always truth is somewhere in the middle.