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I walked away from a unicorn, a few years ago. If I had stayed - and somehow survived the effects it was having on my mental health - I might actually be a mill
by jes5199 10y ago
I walked away from a unicorn, a few years ago. If I had stayed - and somehow survived the effects it was having on my mental health - I might actually be a millionaire now.
Instead, I bought a fee thousand dollars worth of shares - only what I could afford. They IPOed at 10x, and I made a down payment on a house.
But that was a rare case: I had some extra savings, the company was clearly succeeding with clear intent to IPO. And even so, I had to wait four years for a payoff.
- bookbinder 10y agoHow was it affecting your mental heath--stress, sleep deprivation?
- jes5199 10y agowell, I developed a kind of generalized anxiety - I think it came from the long hours in a fairly large and crowded open-floorplan office - it was just way more constant social contact than I'm comfortable with. I guess if it was stress, it was stress from trying to perform while conforming to an environment that I found profoundly uncomfortable. Also there were nebulous culture mismatches that made me feel like I had to put on a fake persona to fit in. Now I work from home and I'm much happier.
- xynny 10y agoi call open floor plans "sweatshop chic"