It&#x27;s easier to be a cog in the wheel when you really support the mission of the organization (company, non-profit, etc).<p>It&#x27;s harder somewhere like a telecom. That said, your priorities will change as you get older. When I was younger, all I cared about was getting to work on things that I found interesting, starting a company, and big company work would start to bore me.<p>Now I have 2 kids and my priority has almost entirely shifted to taking care of them. Stability, benefits, college funds, family activities and events have totally replaced the outside of work time that was formerly preoccupied with obsessing about entrepreneurial ventures.<p>I still think about them. When you&#x27;ve got the bug it&#x27;s not something that turns off, but it&#x27;s nowhere near the same level of priority that it used to be.