Comment by muzani

It's not always about the money. My dream job is being paid to build things, and not dealing with spending half the day figuring out that someone else broke the build because a dependency of a dependency no longer supports arrays.

I like having the entire codebase in my head, from the user to the DB. In most jobs, you're lucky to have a small portion of a front or back end loaded in your head. To keep it there, you'd have to spend all your time writing PRs. You may never know the users or interact with any.

I started a company too. We sat in traffic for an hour to meet one VC who turned us down. I was watching the sun set and asked my cofounder what we signed up for. He said, "If we took full time jobs, we'd be here every evening."