Agree with you and the GP. Both well said. It wasn't until my fourth start-up job that I found one that I loved and stuck with for more than 1.5 years. Luckily

Agree with you and the GP. Both well said. It wasn't until my fourth start-up job that I found one that I loved and stuck with for more than 1.5 years. Luckily, that one worked out and I was rewarded for it. Not as a founder, but as the GP recommended: work at it and find a key role. Work up from there and get your efforts recognized. You won't make millions this way but you will learn a lot about business--mainly, how to recognize the good and bad things in your environment, and how to navigate those issues. You also don't have to risk your savings or livelihood. Unless you have a clear or novel idea about what you want (which I didn't), it is a great learning environment. One thing that I have always known is that I'm not a natural business-type person. After having the safety blanket of learning through 6 years of funded start-ups, rather than on my own dime (and thinking I could do it myself "because it's so easy"), it really helped my long-term prospects of running my own business. One day I will but not yet.