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Living to work vs working to live. In your scenario I can see how you've dedicated 8 years of your life to your employer. Would we really value "time" in this c

Living to work vs working to live. In your scenario I can see how you've dedicated 8 years of your life to your employer. Would we really value "time" in this case? 8 years is a lot of time living to work, getting all these perks not spending any money at all. Not investing in real estate, etc. I feel like you're living the entrepreneur life while being a full time employee at Google. It's a great backup plan to invest in real estate, build a family and enjoy traveling once in a while. I don't want to wake up at 50y old single with a large bank account. Cash isn't worth anything today.

nostrademons 9y ago
It was actually only 5.5 years, the remaining 2.5 I've been working on a startup (or 10). I agree that time is more important than money. And for those 5.5 years, there wasn't anything more exciting than working at Google. Once there was, I left and did it instead. I wasn't living to work, I considered my work and my life to be part of the same inseparable whole. (There's also a point here about not letting other peoples' definitions of what's exciting or worthwhile influence you. I'm sure there are many people who will say "How sad that the most exciting thing in your life is working for a gigantic megacorp!" That's fine - they aren't living my life. I actually thought that the scale of the computing power and complexity of algorithms available to me was fascinating, and I joined them because I wanted to peek under the hood and contribute to what they were doing, not because I needed money.) [Edit: your comment was edited slightly after I replied, not sure if this makes any sense anymore. But responding to your edited version: if cash isn't worth anything and you don't want to wake up with a large bank account, then what's the problem? You aren't going to wake up with a large bank account when you're 50, which means that you're living exactly the life you want to live.]
- bsvalley 9y ago
  In that case, that makes total sense.

nostrademons 9y ago

It was actually only 5.5 years, the remaining 2.5 I've been working on a startup (or 10). I agree that time is more important than money. And for those 5.5 years, there wasn't anything more exciting than working at Google. Once there was, I left and did it instead. I wasn't living to work, I considered my work and my life to be part of the same inseparable whole. (There's also a point here about not letting other peoples' definitions of what's exciting or worthwhile influence you. I'm sure there are many people who will say "How sad that the most exciting thing in your life is working for a gigantic megacorp!" That's fine - they aren't living my life. I actually thought that the scale of the computing power and complexity of algorithms available to me was fascinating, and I joined them because I wanted to peek under the hood and contribute to what they were doing, not because I needed money.) [Edit: your comment was edited slightly after I replied, not sure if this makes any sense anymore. But responding to your edited version: if cash isn't worth anything and you don't want to wake up with a large bank account, then what's the problem? You aren't going to wake up with a large bank account when you're 50, which means that you're living exactly the life you want to live.]

bsvalley 9y ago
In that case, that makes total sense.