Hey Blind,
I’m a research scientist, 26 y/o and I recently left an industry job to work on my own startup. I still have an academic appointment making just under 100k.
I think we have a shot at building something big (https://angel.co/galactictechnologies/syndicate), but I have this nagging feeling that I’m an idiot for leaving a 300k TC job to go work on this, while everyone around me is probably going to keep making decent income and progressing in life.
Working both jobs and starting the startup on the side was having an adverse impact on my health, I basically wasn’t sleeping and was getting numerous health issues, which contributed to my leaving, but now I can’t help but wonder if I was wrong.
I’ve also only been out of school since COVID so I have just about a year and a half of work experience, all in ML research.
I have about 200k in savings, with some more in investments. I plan to operationalize about 100k or so to build the startup I mentioned.
Am I an idiot for trying something like this?
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One thing- Keep around 6 months of your expenses stashed somewhere and don't touch em unless absolutely necessary. Good luck.
But then I would have said the same of Jeff Bezos in 1997 for leaving his cushy job at DE Shaw for some internet startup.