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“Unfiltered confessions of what getting through your initial rounds of startup interviews can look like”: It’s an insider secret that a lot of the “initial battle” of starting to get towards “the bigger pieces of startup funding and better clients” does involve “navigating some interactions with cheap older men who are not always in a happy place in life.” I remember about a year ago, I was interviewing for some other “side roles” while working at the Eagle Institute at New York Life Insurance [Someone who I talked to who has worked in the Fortune 500 said to send out at least 100 resumes a day and to still interview in the background]. I remember answering an interview call with a guy, my initial impression is “Oh I God I can see that look of “he really just got divorced alright” in his eyes, and he said “you shouldn’t get $50/hr”…and that is when it is completely ok to “just cut the interview short”, and “knowing when a client is too bitter to work with is not the same thing as being unprofessional.” You will have to get through “some rounds of the more conservative older men who own mining businesses” kind of clients, while balancing multiple interviews, building out your portfolio, professional network, looking at your stock portfolio, to “find the right client niche” and “to get the $3000 is not a problem for a Word Press Site” kind of clients. It’s a balance. It’s a tug and a pull.”