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Amusingly, every startup I've joined, I've joined effectively in the middle of it running headlong into the ground. In fact, these startups were either drastically misspending their remaining cash in the bank (and hiring me in the first place was part of that misspending), or they were hiring me because the original engineering lead had already seen the blood in the water and quit.

The annoying thing is that, because of this pattern (paycheques always evaporating, etc.), it's been really hard to get paid, so for the longest time I've had no savings, and was thus forced to stay at these jobs for the money... which they don't have. Kind of a vicious circle.