| If you are bored, then it is you that is not stimulating yourself, not your job. Any job can be fun and stimulating: ask anyone intelligent working in a monotonous job e.g. talk to smart minimum wage friends. The exception would be if your workmates are hell; that is not fun. Make up some human challenges for yourself, while perhaps avoiding purely technical challenges (my assumption is that you are an engineer type). Try to make colleague X laugh every day, draw a cartoon for colleague Y, whatever, et cetera. Richard Feynman played the bongos and picked locks. Jim Keller is off-the-charts smart, yet he talks about the his joy of digging ditches, in and interview of Jim by Lex Fridman: jog to 1h16m40s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA Joel Spolsky (old skool!) writes about "My first real job was in a big, industrial bakery" - about 5 paragraphs from top in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/10/controlling-your-e... If you are thinking you want to do a startup, the best place to find a founder(s) is in a large company. Search for other colleagues you like working with and that have integrity, and especially pay attention to others with skills you are weak at (e.g. marketing if you are a tech guy). Eventually an opportunity will open itself with a colleague. Ask others you trust what your weaknesses are, and challenge yourself to improve on those areas. Finally, be careful of the siren call of money. You don't want to burn through your savings (resetting to zero at 30 was rather unpleasant for me). But also don't waste your precious time only on chasing money (I have also tried that, and while it has given me a certain amount of financial freedom, the journey was mostly unsatisfying). Disclaimer: I am middle aged, and I myself have done some of the above, and I regret not doing other of the above! |