[randop]

You are not alone on this one. I myself have also been through this experience.

Have you considered a different option ? How about building your own start-up to serve real business needs? Or working on open source projects. There are a lot of opportunities to look forward into.

Why keep banging your head multiple times on something, when you can use that energy on other meaningful ways.

[gaahrdner]

I like what you're saying, but there is quite a bit of comfort and safety that comes with a $100,000+ job compared to starting up your own business. While many of us are ok with that risk, others may very well have responsibilities that dictate taking the "sure thing."[0]

0. https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/