Base salaries aren't terrible at startups, it's the RSUs and ESPP they can't match. I can deal with a terrible IT department preventing progress for double the money, it's fine.
I really cannot, so - good for you! It takes all kinds.
There is nothing I could do for pleasure, even with double my salary, which would compensate for the misery I would feel working a job I hated. But that's who I am, and we're not all the same!
