| There are a lot of good thoughts here, especially those about focusing on companies with technology risk. It seems like you would enjoy working on something like that. What I would like to contribute to the conversation is this: life is long and you will benefit to think of it as an arc. First, think about your career in ~7 year chapters. Congratulations, you just finished the first chapter! If you're 30, that means you probably have 4-6 more working chapters, then some retirement chapters thereafter. It seems like you found out some things you didn't like in that first chapter, and you want the next chapter to be different. Second, spend some time to think about your life in reverse. What do you want your live to be like when you're 75 years old, and then work it backwards from there. If each chapter is a building block, then what do you need to accomplish in the next 7 years to move you toward what you want in the future. This is an exercise worth doing annually. Or, maybe you only want to have one more working chapter and then you want to retire. So, you'd make a whole bunch of different choices if that were the case. In any case, the point is that you're frustrated in the moment, but the moment is just a point on the arc of a long life. Use what you learned in the first chapter to move along the arc in a direction that you prefer. |