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Himilarly, these 2/3 of people self employed could get a traditional job.... but they don't. This isn't necessarily true. The hacker news world of prep school
by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Himilarly, these 2/3 of people self employed could get a traditional job.... but they don't.
This isn't necessarily true. The hacker news world of prep school kids that turn down $200K/yr junior investment banking jobs to work on their Facebook gaming startups sort of warps this perspective. Many, if not most, self employed people are self employed because they would never get hired at a regular job. There was even a time when this was true in Silicon Valley.
- philwelch 16y agoThe hacker news world of prep school kids that turn down $200K/yr junior investment banking jobs to work on their Facebook gaming startups sort of warps this perspective. There's something that strikes me as odd about this statement; I didn't realize we were all supposed to be prep school kids with the option of having $200k/yr junior investment banking jobs.