Work for profitable companies. The company that can barely afford you won't give good pay raises and will have lousy practices borne from the need to make ends

Work for profitable companies. The company that can barely afford you won't give good pay raises and will have lousy practices borne from the need to make ends meet at any cost to technical debt. Also some aspect of your job will always suck. Even if you find the perfect job the manager can change or even company gets taken over. For control you need to run your own biz.