This is the best advice I’ve read so far. Real Q is, do you care about oil and gas? Probably answer is no. This sucks too. The skills you gain from autonomy m

This is the best advice I’ve read so far. Real Q is, do you care about oil and gas? Probably answer is no. This sucks too. The skills you gain from autonomy might translate into, you have a good idea for a new business, you ask your rich boss for a $25k-$100k check investing in your new thing when you leave. I assume it will not be in oil and gas because nobody really cares about mineral extraction sincerely. This deal sounds nice but in reality there are millions of people your age who get a $25k-$100k check every year from their parents to do something they care about, as opposed to some boring ass business. Your instincts to find mentors are good. The hard truth is you will have to quit to find them, you have correctly ascertained that you are hitting a ceiling, and developing a relationship with these guys is kind of worthless. This is the real value of “Google” and “Airbnb:” they’re so big and they’re household names, even if you worked on some bullshit meaningless thing there, you can get a lot of people to pay attention to the new thing you want to do that you are actually excited about. The skills you develop will not be useful for getting hired at these companies, unfortunately that is a huge crapshoot right now, and you’d have to do a career reset by taking grad school or something, because I cannot emphasize enough how little people care about mineral extraction.