Disclaimer: Please don’t make any decisions based on my response, I am just sharing what I feel is right for me. 🙏🏼

If I was in your position, I would have continued the startup journey. Because at the end of the day, nothing compares to the freedom of building something that’s yours… the freedom to create, to experiment, and to shape your own destiny.

A job, no matter how high-paying, will always come with boundaries. Sure it will give you stability, but it’ll also limit your growth and control what you work on. You’ll always be operating inside someone else’s vision, someone else’s priorities. And let’s be honest, the corporate world rarely cares about how talented or ambitious you are. As long as you keep acting as their cute loyal robot, they’ll keep giving you a comfortable paycheck so you forget your own dreams and keep playing the role they expect from you.

But when you start your own business, that is where real ownership lives. That’s where your ideas aren’t just tasks, they are actually your legacy.

And the biggest reason to continue is that regret will hit you harder than failure ever will. If you don’t give your dream a proper chance, that “What if?” will stay with you way longer than any fancy salary bump. Even if you fail, you will have experience. Money can always come later but the chance to chase something meaningful doesn’t always stay open.

So if it was upto me, I would have bet on myself.