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> if you’re an employer and want to hire someone ambitious and productive whose first priority is the company’s project Sounds like you're searching for a rub
by CoolGuySteve 7y ago
> if you’re an employer and want to hire someone ambitious and productive whose first priority is the company’s project
Sounds like you're searching for a rube above all else.
Someone dumb enough to sacrifice their personal life to your "vision" to this extent will probably exhibit poor judgement in other aspects of your business.
Just hire someone reasonable, with or without kids. If they start pulling away from your project, maybe take that as information that you're not handling the rudder quite right.
- allovernow 7y ago>Someone dumb enough to sacrifice their personal life to your "vision" to this extent will probably exhibit poor judgement in other aspects of your business. Honestly, a lot of us programmers don't really have lives outside of work and enjoy what we do. Maybe that advantage inspires snark in those for whom work is not a 1# priority.
- DougN7 7y agoI don’t think snark was intended. Work is a means to an end, not the end itself (or shouldn’t be in my opinion but other opinions surely exist too).
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoIf that’s the case then unless you own a significant part of the company you should either be starting your own company, learning something perpendicular to your day job, or you know, engaging in leisure. Don’t be a rube.
- meowface 7y ago100%. Making your life your work isn't necessarily bad, if you've come to that decision of your own free will and after careful consideration of the alternatives, but making your life a faceless cog in a bureaucracy is a life unlived. It only makes sense to treat work that way if you're a co-founder or co-owner.
- grawprog 7y ago>Someone dumb enough to sacrifice their personal life to your "vision" to this extent will probably exhibit poor judgement in other aspects of your business. Or, they get sick of it and decide they'd rather put that energy towards bettering their own life rather than making someone else rich and may possibly leave abrubtly without much warning, leaving the company scrambling to find a replacement.