One bit of advice i was given as a teenager:
"Always have a fallback plan that's profitable, but that you really hate."
"That way, you'll do what you can to avoid using it, but it's there if you need it."
"When you look at your current situation, if it starts to look worse than your fallback plan, it's time to be somewhere else..." :D
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