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Read this: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-gu-1.html "Once you have picked an industry, get right to the center of it as fast as you possibly can." "Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works." When you're young, you should always trade income risk and get to the center of the action ASAP and decide which "businesses" you want to learn. For example, if you want to start a enterprise software company, you would work at SAP. This is only for you're very ambitious. If you're not, focus on the compensation, challenging work, environment, etc that everyone talks about. The fact is if you're doing a startup, you learn about the business from being in a company in the space. (SAP spun out of IBM, Salesforce/PeopleSoft/Siebel from Oracle, YouTube/Slide/Geni/Yelp/Linkedin from Paypal (all consumer internet), etc). |