> I was working for a well-established startup with a mission I really believed in, and which felt like it had the potential to be a massive success and shake u

> I was working for a well-established startup with a mission I really believed in, and which felt like it had the potential to be a massive success and shake up the industries it was doing business in. There is your problem. You naively fell for the BS coming out of some many startups these days.. > I didn’t accept it straight away. To be honest, I was still holding out, hoping that some trendier startup would come along and offer me a job Seriously? Get real.. If you want to exclusively work for startups that have bean bags in their offices and tell everybody that they are changing the world with whatever silly laundry/food-delivery/ironing-on-demand app they have then thats fine but don't put out a sob story when you realise that these startups are no different than any other business and don't give a damn about changing the world or helping their employees they are just there to make money.