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> Having a corporate job is usually a 'mediocre success'. Eh, that is doing OK to me, which is better than some nebulous "mediocre success". If you are at least saving for retirement, and able to support a family, that's actual success in my book. The typical startup outcome, where you try for a couple years, it fails, and then you move on to a corporate job is not terrible. What's really bad is when you make enough to just barely get by, paying yourself a sub-market-rate salary, and keep limping along for a long while. Waiting for that "success", that big breakthrough, "just around the corner". You can be stuck doing this for years, out of a misguided sense of loyalty, determination or whatever. And then you are not saving for retirement, and letting the best family-creation years (if that is a life goal) pass you by. That, to me is "mediocre success". Ask me how I know. On second though, no, don't ask me how I know. |