Avoid the startup. They will tell you "sincerity begins at 90 hours per week" and then lay you off in 6 months. (Or maybe they won't, no company, large or sma

Avoid the startup. They will tell you "sincerity begins at 90 hours per week" and then lay you off in 6 months. (Or maybe they won't, no company, large or small seems immune to layoffs.) But older, more established, companies typically provide better work/life balance and the additional 10% in salary won't pay for the time you lose with your new family. I lucked out when my first child was born. I got laid off a week before. I say "lucked out" because our insurance benefits went on, cost free for three months and my spouse spent a month in the hospital after the birth. This was before paternity leave was a thing, and had I been working, I would have been very nervous taking a month off to care for her (or really, caring for our child so my spouse could focus on getting better.) I did find a job before we lost our insurance benefits, but it paid a bit less but was MUCH less stressful and with a MUCH better work/life balance.