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“I really want to work at a startup. Also the things that are really important to me are: work/life balance, high salary, gold benefits, stability, working fro
by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
“I really want to work at a startup. Also the things that are really important to me are: work/life balance, high salary, gold benefits, stability, working from 10 to 5 on the dot, never being on call, never needing to think or care about work out of hours …”
These are all necessary evils when you work for yourself, but if I was interviewing with a potential employer and they had this attitude? No thanks.
- K0SM0S 7y agoThus you don't want to work at a startup. It's not 'attitude', it's just reality: you simply can't have all of these things and a thriving startup. You'll have to give in on some or all of them at some point in time during the next 2-5 years. This is the life of any entrepreneur by the way, any sector. Organization helps, tremendously — night and day, quite literally (sigh) — but doesn't magically create more time.
- newen 7y ago> entrepreneur You are not an entrepreneur if you work at a startup. You are just a worker, and more often than not, a worker who is not well compensated for the work you do.
- magduf 7y agoExactly. Horror stories abound for workers at startups who were promised high compensation after the company succeeded, but instead were totally shafted when management figured out some way to make the employees' shares worthless.
- K0SM0S 7y agoIt's effectively doing the work like an entrepreneur with anywhere between too little to no upside, indeed. I'd agree you shouldn't work at a startup unless you're personally vested in its success — the core team, with equity.