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Same - and he has worked for himself since 21. But my other thought was - this fellow is wiser than his age.

by 1point2 15y ago

smoyer 15y ago
I didn't say that I disagreed with his points ... I just wanted to add an item to his list.
- finchmedia 15y ago
  I am actually the author in question (I think it might be smart for me to remove my age from the posts in future!), but I do agree with what you're saying. It's much easier said than done to avoid the 'corporate drone' path, and it's something that suffocates the life out of enthusiastic minds right from a young age. I personally hated the idea enough to do everything in my power to be my own boss - but most people simply don't care. They're indifferent. It's a shame, but inevitable.
  - smoyer 15y ago
    You are certainly an enlightened "youngster" ... I didn't even think about this sort of question until I was much older. But I did quit college to join a start-up as the third employee (in the tech arena) and then went to work for 2 more start-ups where I was the second and seventh employee. In 2001, I took a job with a publicly traded company which at the time had around 1700 employees. The group I worked for had around 55 people and was a completely new line-of-business for the company. The company's president treated us like a start-up and was basically our investor. My first real task there was figuring out why we weren't generating the amount of code we should have been ... it led to getting rid of about 20 people that weren't contributing but were slowing the rest of the team down. Curiously, these same people were the BDUF, ex-military contract people that had injected the corporate behavior into our little group. Unfortunately, the larger company bought a few more companies in the same space, merged the groups together without a mandate and we became just another department. And with that there became a pressing need to behave as the other corporate drones ... go get honey, bring it back to the hive and lay the paperwork so others could also find the source of your nectar. So this was the first and last time I intend to be employed by a large corporation. I just find it hard to tolerate the low expectations of productivity. If they only realized how much they give up in the interest of conformity. As far as putting your age on future posts, my question would be "why would you remove it?" You wrote an excellent article and you'll be commended for it by those who favor excellence. Everyone else is irrelevant!

Same - and he has worked for himself since 21. But my other thought was - this fellow is wiser than his age.

by 1point2 15y ago

Same - and he has worked for himself since 21. But my other thought was - this fellow is wiser than his age.

smoyer 15y ago

I didn't say that I disagreed with his points ... I just wanted to add an item to his list.

finchmedia 15y ago
I am actually the author in question (I think it might be smart for me to remove my age from the posts in future!), but I do agree with what you're saying. It's much easier said than done to avoid the 'corporate drone' path, and it's something that suffocates the life out of enthusiastic minds right from a young age. I personally hated the idea enough to do everything in my power to be my own boss - but most people simply don't care. They're indifferent. It's a shame, but inevitable.
- smoyer 15y ago
  You are certainly an enlightened "youngster" ... I didn't even think about this sort of question until I was much older. But I did quit college to join a start-up as the third employee (in the tech arena) and then went to work for 2 more start-ups where I was the second and seventh employee. In 2001, I took a job with a publicly traded company which at the time had around 1700 employees. The group I worked for had around 55 people and was a completely new line-of-business for the company. The company's president treated us like a start-up and was basically our investor. My first real task there was figuring out why we weren't generating the amount of code we should have been ... it led to getting rid of about 20 people that weren't contributing but were slowing the rest of the team down. Curiously, these same people were the BDUF, ex-military contract people that had injected the corporate behavior into our little group. Unfortunately, the larger company bought a few more companies in the same space, merged the groups together without a mandate and we became just another department. And with that there became a pressing need to behave as the other corporate drones ... go get honey, bring it back to the hive and lay the paperwork so others could also find the source of your nectar. So this was the first and last time I intend to be employed by a large corporation. I just find it hard to tolerate the low expectations of productivity. If they only realized how much they give up in the interest of conformity. As far as putting your age on future posts, my question would be "why would you remove it?" You wrote an excellent article and you'll be commended for it by those who favor excellence. Everyone else is irrelevant!