You got good advice. I will pile on, splitting it into two separate buckets: what (setting your goal) and how (moving in that direction), which to me are worth

You got good advice. I will pile on, splitting it into two separate buckets: what (setting your goal) and how (moving in that direction), which to me are worth separating. What. As others said, do not underestimate your ability or put an artificial ceiling on your worth to the company. But you have to figure out what would make you reasonably happy at work. Working on specific areas (aerospace, bio, medical, etc.), specific technologies, team type, something else? Everyone is different. In parallel, figure out how much money you will be happy with: more is better, but for many people serious stress builds up below a certain point (again, different for each one of us). How. 1. Reduce your hours and get enough rest. You cannot get good answers on "what" unless you have both calmness and time. Get both. Build up a 6-month financial cushion, then set 40-45 hrs work goal; 50 hrs absolute max. If your startup asks you to go, so be it. Between your savings and unemployment benefits you will be fine for a while. After a month or so you might see where you want to go. 2. Develop a network with technical folks at companies you want to work at. Look at the problems they are trying to solve. Make a small project on github on one of those topics (X). Go to a conference where those folks are likely to hang up. Ask for advice on how to do X which they should be interested in. Or use another method. You may not get where you want to go in one step, but it will likely be a step in the right direction. 3. Buff up your resume and the linkedin profile so they do not look abandoned. Do some leetcode practice. People say "linkedin does not matter", but many would still look up a person before the interview as a sniff test and linked in is what usually comes up. Good luck!