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Sometimes the right move is to get a job in your degreed field with a company that is already successful, and make your mark to some extent. A big company or a multinational can be like entering a soul-crushing career, but if you don't like it you don't have to stay forever. It can be good to have early familiarity with the inside workings of massive bureaucracy even if that is not going to be your everyday destiny, as an entrepreneur some of the biggest clients may be the most bureaucratic you will have to deal with.

Also if you want to rejoin a large firm sometime in the future and hit the ground running, some corporate experience can put you head & shoulders above others if you have that on your resume.

OTOH, when it comes to biomedical devices, I don't think some of the advances in artificial heart development would have been possible without at least one doctor becoming a leading heart surgeon beforehand.