> If you're optimizing your career, either make the most you can at an established company, or start a startup. I feel I'm optimising my career, working as a s

> If you're optimizing your career, either make the most you can at an established company, or start a startup. I feel I'm optimising my career, working as a sysadmin at a small startup. It's not optimising for money, but I get to touch a lot of tech and design a lot of infrastructure. Make a few mistakes and learn from them. I'm not implementing someone else's design here.