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Find happiness. It may or may not involve your job. If you're unhappy with your work because of your salary, you're going down a rabbit hole. Optimize for happi
by jmathai 14y ago
Find happiness. It may or may not involve your job. If you're unhappy with your work because of your salary, you're going down a rabbit hole. Optimize for happiness.
Otherwise, the best advice I can give is forgo the equity and take the extra $15k in salary. It acts as a baseline for your next job and it's cash you can use today for savings or material goods.
Unless you're a founder or a VERY early employee in a quite successful startup the financial upside just isn't there. The upside has to be a good job that compliments whatever it is that makes you happy.
- madaxe 14y agoHah. Most founders are broke. Sure, you own an equity slice in a business, but the reality is that you pay yourself a pittance, and your best hope is to be acquired for a six figure (not six zero) sum after a decade of back-breaking labour.