Lessons from 3 years of work

This is all written with my ~3 years of working experience so far, so take with a grain of salt! I’m still learning a lot about how to work and live well, and how to balance my ambitions with my comfort. So far, I’ve had the opportunity to work at a large publicly traded tech company, a small 30 person startup, and two medium sized unicorn startups around a few hundred people. Each work experience has come with its own set of unique challenges, but I don’t regret for a minute any of my choices thus far — despite many of them inviting more chaos, providing less consistent income, and also being potentially “bad” decisions. For example, joining a company pre-product market fit and working across 5 different timezones was not what I needed 1 year into my career. However, as a result of trying out all these different companies, I feel that I’ve gotten a much better sense of what I value in work and what I’m working towards in my medium term and long term goals. I won’t talk too much about

This is all written with my ~3 years of working experience so far, so take with a grain of salt! I’m still learning a lot about how to work and live well, and how to balance my ambitions with my comfort. So far, I’ve had the opportunity to work at a large publicly traded tech company, a small 30 person startup, and two medium sized unicorn startups around a few hundred people. Each work experience has come with its own set of unique challenges, but I don’t regret for a minute any of my choices thus far — despite many of them inviting more chaos, providing less consistent income, and also being