I personally spent 10 years working for banks, which I’m sure few of us are passionate about, but I did grow to appreciate things like the scale, the business

I personally spent 10 years working for banks, which I’m sure few of us are passionate about, but I did grow to appreciate things like the scale, the business criticality, and the opportunity to engineer properly in that environment. Sure, working for a Crypto exchange might be more fun and look cooler, but if they have 10 customers and you are constantly under pressure to hack stuff into production for an egomaniac CEO, it is not a great environment to grow and work in. So personally I wouldn’t be so quick to write off the boring or unsexy opportunities. Especially early in your career when you need to learn how to do things properly.