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"Cut to 3 years later, and I'm on a small, tight programming team for a little dot-com startup. I've been there for almost a year, and it's time for a bit of R&
by Androsynth 16y ago
"Cut to 3 years later, and I'm on a small, tight programming team for a little dot-com startup. I've been there for almost a year, and it's time for a bit of R&R in Central America. 6 weeks off should just about do it"
Does this remind anyone of yesterdays article about the guy who took a month off for a honeymoon? It's one thing to take advantage of a large corporation but if you are screwing your startup for your own vacation, you are being extremely selfish and possibly detrimental to the company. It's fine if you need to recharge your batteries, but its another thing entirely to leave your startup, and your friends, to get more vacation time. If the startup failed, you lost much, much more than you gained by going to Costa Rica.
- fizx 16y agoSlavery (in America) died in the 1800s. Your job doesn't own you.
- Androsynth 16y agoI'm not talking about working at a normal job, I'm talking about working at a startup. At a startup you have a tremendous amount of responsibility because a large portion of the companies success/failure rests on your shoulders. You also have other people who have put a tremendous amount of faith in you and rely heavily on you. If you would rather take month long vacations to go backpack around exotic locations, go work for a big company. If you do this at a startup, chances are you are putting your company, and your co-workers, future at risk. If you want to work at a startup, especially as an early employee, there are certain responsibilities that you must live up to. This author, like the founder of the failed YC company, is selfish. Either life gets in the way of a startup or a startup gets in the way of life, but its not often you get both.
- mattm 16y ago> This author, like the founder of the failed YC company, is selfish Everyone is selfish.