Don't worry dude, nobody is telling you to go out and start a business. > It feels as though the culture is that you're expected to have ambition to create you

Don't worry dude, nobody is telling you to go out and start a business. > It feels as though the culture is that you're expected to have ambition to create your own start-up Look at the URL of this site. It's Ycombinator, a start-up accelerator. That's like going to Japan and wondering why everyone speaks Japanese, and why there is so much pressure to learn the language. Maybe you didn't realize it at first, but everyone around you is speaking Japanese because you are in Japan. If you are living on my couch, eating my food and not kicking anything back to me, then I'm going to talk to you about "thriving." At least you can thrive enough to get a dang job. But in this case, you have a job and you are independent. Good job, that's a position that probably at least the 8% - 10% of the unemployed and looking for work population will envy you for.