Thanks for this, I think I have to do a bit of soul searching and figure out what I want to do for the next 5-10 years and have that figured out more clearly.

Thanks for this, I think I have to do a bit of soul searching and figure out what I want to do for the next 5-10 years and have that figured out more clearly. As for mentors, working at startups I’ve had some pretty good success finding mentors who were essentially advisors and at larger companies or retired seasoned vets for the therapy, professional growth, and debugging strategies/technical problems. I think that would be the same because you’d have to make an effort to get something out of that mentorship - I don’t believe mentorship is bought or falls into your lap, it usually happens because of good chemistry (being in both sides of this). As for stock compensation, from my understanding it’s usually options? Where the company has to grow correct? If it stays flat, it’s basically nothing? (Please correct next if I’m wrong, I’m a bit oblivious to this). Also from tax perspective it also eats into this? Just want the post tax perspective and assess the risk/rewards. Understandably, startups the stock is 99.9% worthless.