On the money. Fuck the 9-5 corporate work life.
I've been doing this everyday for 12 years..and I'm about to blow my brains out.
I encourage everyone to find one thing they love and find a way to do it everyday for the rest of your life.
I've been doing this everyday for 12 years..and I'm about to blow my brains out.
I encourage everyone to find one thing they love and find a way to do it everyday for the rest of your life.
Entrepreneurship is romanticised by entreporn on Medium.
Essentially there is no black and white answer, everyone should just do what gives him/her meaning.
> I encourage everyone to find one thing they love and find a way to do it everyday for the rest of your life.
...is translated to entrepreneurship, when that doesn't have to be a given. I'm still struggling with the alternative possibilities, but I just wanted to point that out.
That said I do agree with your conclusion. It's the path to get there that can keep me up at night, and perhaps not framing it purely in terms of being employed or self-employed might help (not saying that that's what you were saying, btw).
Please don't.
A. You'll mess up that screen you're paid to stare into ;)
B. More seriously, if you ain't being facetious, switch jobs.
But to your point: work is a drag. I don't care how free the food is or how comfortable your ergonomic keyboard feels. Deep down there's something dissatisfying about most corporate life. But at the same time it's never been easier to (try!) start your own thing, as you suggest.
To anybody reading this, go for it. Before responsibility limits your risk-taking. And give it absolutely everything.
I tend to see perks like "free food" as a red flag when I'm job hunting. In my experience, employers that go way above and beyond to make an office comfortable are doing it because they expect you to spend virtually all of your time there. Any office that has a game room or a cafeteria is extremely suspect.
All I need is relative quiet, a reasonable meeting schedule, and decent equipment. I'll buy my own lunch and leave at 5, thanks.
I always wondered what his employees thought when they read that article and whether the perks worked as nicely after he explained his thinking in public.
This same thing happened to me when I was a wee lad. I then personally ordered and paid for a few pizzas, breadsticks, root beer, a greek salad, about $50 all together, and hosted a pizza party myself at work late at night. To get your slice I just had you sign a petition against unpaid overtime and interest in joining the Teamsters Union. A couple guys didn't want to sign, the others did. A few weeks later I was fired with cause, had a better paying job by the end of the week. Company folded around a year later. And good.
If everyone followed your advice, we would probably have garbage piling up in the streets, because I doubt there are enough people who love collecting it or working in landfills to handle even a fraction of the garbage we generate.
That's ridiculous, my reasoning assumes no such thing. I'm well aware that there are, and for at least decades have been, many people engaged in that exact activity. (Whether they "love" it or not.) And yet, we still need many many people who are willing to undergo the drudgery of manually collecting garbage. My reasoning does assume that we will continue to need those people, albeit in decreasing numbers, for decades to come.
I'm seeking something somewhat in between these. At least I get paid by the hour which in tech is a great luxury.
Salaries are a scam and I stay away from them, at the price of job security. Which doesn't exist anyway, right?