One of my ex-managers suggested I could be a good fit for a start-up because I’m not too fond of the politics game in the workplace and enjoy presenting my work with memes. Months after, right now, I am in a start-up with a handful of incredibly talented people, and here are my experiences and learnings so far.

 It is an insight into what is the trade-off. What you are getting back for giving up on big side benefits, the reputation of a big name, etc. Take it or leave it, reader. 😊

Another level of self-learning

In every job, you have to teach yourself and learn from others all the time. This is the rule. We get an education, but real working scenarios often do not exactly match what we learned in school. And sometimes, we came across things we did not hear about in school at all. In a start-up, self-learning is on another level because it is only a handful amount of people. You usually don’t have somebody in your team that “knows everything” or “been there”, and being a new person in a company, you don’t get to delegate your work, so you are the one who needs to do the execution of the tasks. Hence you have to learn “how to do things” all the time. One day you are learning about marketing funnels, another day, you find yourself coding to build a WebScraper. It can be stressful, but it teaches a lot for sure!