Ask HN: Quitting without anything lined up?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19836416
by jhatemyjob • 7 years ago
2 6 7 years ago

Graduated college in 2018 and got a job at a startup immediately after graduating. After about a week I realized I hated it. Weird company culture, bad micromanager, disgusting codebase, no WFH. It's not terrible but there are certainly better jobs out there. I decided to stay; the pay is decent and I had a lot to learn (about being professional, office politics, marketing, knowing when you have PMF, sales, branding, stock options, NOT engineering). Just for a year though. Then I was gonna switch to another, better job.

What I didn't anticipate was being incredibly burnt out. I want to quit and not work for a while. Issue is I heard that's "bad" around the Internet.

Here's what I have going for me:

* I can live with my parents at any time for as long as I want no questions asked.

* About 10 months in I started getting regular pings (2x per week) via email/LinkedIn from recruiters for various other jobs, varying from startups to Uber/Facebook/Google.

* I have been shipping production-quality software since 2007. Based on my experience at this startup I believe I have the equivalent of 8 YoE but that's hard to put on paper.

* I have friends at various other companies that could refer me.

Basically my career goal is to bootstrap a SaaS company and either turn it into a lifestyle business or get acquired for like $1-5M. The job market is a backup plan for me. I've had 2 engineering jobs at this point and I fucking hated both of them.

Will this recruiter outreach stop once I quit? I'm also kinda worried about closing the door to Google/Facebook/Uber but honestly I'd rather work somewhere that let me work part time remote so I could focus on my own stuff. Working on other people's code blows and I'd prefer to do as little of that as I possibly can.

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