I'm in my prime and relatively competent. The reason I'm broke working on my own startup and not at a company is because every company or successful project I'

I'm in my prime and relatively competent. The reason I'm broke working on my own startup and not at a company is because every company or successful project I've been a part of has not led to my success as an individual. FTE at a startup is high risk low reward. You might think with funding a startup is not high risk. It is. You are giving up the huge salary you'd get a a megacorp. And don't even get me started on the common stock issue. FTE at a megacorp is medium risk medium reward. Not high enough reward until you get to the higher levels - difficult to do. And also the dull monotone reward signal of direct deposit every two weeks is so incredibly boring. So now I'm left bootstrapping. The only thing left with high reward. It's hard. My insurance sucks. Trying to work with other companies is obnoxious. Every app store takes 30% and thinks they have employees without the paperwork. One app store I built something for requested(demanded) never ending meaningless changes then released a copy of my idea without telling me. It wasn't even that good of an idea in retrospect. The game is rigged and not optional. People everywhere hate rigged games.