I had already treated issues like anxiety/depression when I was younger, but these were not the root of the issue but rather were second-order effects. The biggest benefit to having left finance for a while was actually that it gave me an opportunity to express emotions that I had previously suppressed, like anger. (Just in my personal journey I've realized I have a lot of serious mental health issues with respect to work and am probably the work equivalent of "orthorexic" and I also have a serious anger management issue. Because I honestly think I'd take a paycut of 50% if I were to ever get fired or something I work kind of an insane amount. But I also have to work an insane amount - honestly more than I did in banking. If I were to leave my role at any point, I would make an amount that would make me feel like a fuck up. I have a very cool role, but to be honest I feel a bit trapped.
I feel like I'm solving a very complicated puzzle that mixes, quantitative, qualitative, managerial/interpersonal and operational considerations. But the plain reality is that senior exec roles, even at elite startups, don't pay nearly as well as fairly junior roles in elite HFs.įwiw, I actually do find the work at the startup more interesting than working at a hedge fund, mostly because it's very "real." It's real in the sense that I have PnL responsibility and feel like I have control over the outcome. What kind of sucks is that if I were ever to leave this startup at work elsewhere, I would immediately take a pay cut of roughly ~50% and make roughly what I made almost a decade ago, which is sort of demoralizing. My understanding is this is basically 99th percentile in terms of cash comp at startups and it's basically because I got acqui-hired with unique and highly valuable skills.
HYPER BULLET CHESS RULES SERIES
Just as some context, I spent 24-26 working at an elite single manager then 27-28 at an elite trading firm, then 29-31 as a startup founder then VP at a Series A startup.Īt 25-26 at the elite single manager, I made $450K all-in which is roughly what I make now at the startup as a VP.
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