[scarface74]

As opposed to working for non profitable startups?

The second part is that I tell them to save aggressively and diversify themselves by selling their RSUs as soon as they vest. They wouldn’t use 25% of their cash salary to buy their company stock, why keep your shares once they vest?

I sell all of my RSUs within the six months after they vest and diversify

I would much rather to have loved and to have lost than to never have loved at all. I used every penny of the after tax difference between my “enterprise job” I had in 2020 and my BigTech job that I got then to “increase my net worth”. If I lost my job , it would have been a good three years.