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Competent people stop caring once they don't have anywhere to go, career-wise. Incompetent people stop caring once they're sure they won't be found out. Kids

• pengaru 7y ago
  > Kids have nothing to do with it. Kids do tend to consume time which may have otherwise been used for work or work-related personal development. Time is finite, it's not just a binary matter of caring vs. not caring, it's also higher priorities displacing lower ones.
  • inertiatic 7y ago
    Kids change your life. Whether they use up your energy or they force you to reevaluate and drop unimportant things to focus on what matters, depends on your individual experience. For myself, having a child made me extremely career focused.
• zoomablemind 7y ago
  This may be also influenced by the selection criteria (or culture in other way). Basically, it's about those "who stay". The reasons to stay in a stagnating org could be diverse, but the attitude for change is often "lay low". Reasons to stay in "more with less" org are kind of a gamble, quite unsettling for anyone, let alone with kids. In general, people would not care when they feel having no control over process and result. Just like when some other forces move them in whatever direction, like when riding downhill, why to spin the pedals?