>>>No one offers me a place in new startups. Pretend this was not written by him, because I don't want this to come off as attacking anyone. Reading just that

>>>No one offers me a place in new startups. Pretend this was not written by him, because I don't want this to come off as attacking anyone. Reading just that alone, my reaction is, "Well, why SHOULD they?" Isn't having coding skills the same as having made a living as a writer? I don't see novelists complaining that no one has "invited" them to write books. They do it without any money up front in the hopes someone will like it and publish it (some self-publish in e, these days). I thought being able to code was like a ticket to mint money, if you had a great idea and the willingness to push at it. Isn't that how everything on the Net came about? Maybe I'm just missing something here. But the fact remains if you sit around waiting for an "invite" to anything, you're bound to be waiting a very, very long time. I'd rather be doing something than waiting any day.