New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?

Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?
4 by amiuba | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Looking at the last five years of my career, I have come to realize I might hate working for someone else. I resent spending 48 weeks a year in an office and stressing over issues that will only make the company’s owners richer but won’t change much for me. I say don’t change much because a 2-3% raise once in a while is nice, but it’s nothing in comparison to the thousands/millions extra it will make the company, while the only result for me is that I get to keep my job and do more of that. I also have a very hard time feeling any personal pride or accomplishment for helping the company’s bottom line. It’s not my company, and I really don’t feel anything whether they sell more or made a couple millions extra this year because employees worked (unpaid) overtime. My boss getting a new Tesla or yet another house from the extra profits doesn’t make me happy. This thinking is hurting me though because it makes every job I ever had barely tolerable, slowly creeping towards miserable after enough time. I am aware of it but I can’t overcome it.
I’ve tried working at startups, and 150-300 people mid-sized companies. On the other hand, I don’t think I’m the entrepreneur type either. I don’t have any idea that I’d like to pursue and start building a company around, going through that grind is not something that appeals to me. Has anyone ever felt this way? What did you do about it and how do you cope with it?