[kelukelugames]

I've paid off my mortgage and am now more open to working on something more altruistic than selling ads for slightly less pay. The problem is I can't find any interesting without a large paycut.

[pmiller2]

Really? Are you in the Bay Area? If so, I find it hard to believe there’s not at least one startup within 10 miles of your current employer doing something at least vaguely interesting (or, at least more interesting than selling ads).

[ummonk]

He'll have to take a large paycut to work for it though...

[lordnacho]

Sounds like you're in the perfect position to do your own startup?

More upside if it goes well and you're already not in need of money?

[purple_ducks]

~= "A startup for startups sake"

The new art?

Shouldn't people usually have some kind of business idea before diving head first?

[opportune]

You have to be a senior at Google or Facebook, maybe Bing, but nowhere else would be cutting your pay for a fixed amount of experience unless you can't get an interview at Netflix

[seppin]

> The problem is I can't find any interesting without a large paycut.

So you're not really interested

[Vinnl]

One problem that I do have is that, although I'm prepared to take a relatively large pay cut if I'm really passionate about something, one thing I do care about is working with capable colleagues and being able to actually achieve the thing I'm passionate about. That's less likely to be the case when a job doesn't pay well, unfortunately.