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> this guy lived a /very/ charmed and privileged existence His experience in tech doesn't sound so charmed to me. He was obsessed with climbing the corporate l
by brushfoot 4y ago
> this guy lived a /very/ charmed and privileged existence
His experience in tech doesn't sound so charmed to me. He was obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder. He slept in the office and woke up early every morning to start grinding again. He worked so much he didn't even have time to play a game with his son.
He tried another kind of work to see how it compared, and he learned stuff. There's nothing patronizing about that.
- grepfru_it 4y agoA) that’s how Microsoft functions I had a director comment on how productive I was when I worked 60-70 hour weeks, how unproductive I was when I worked 40 hours. Coworkers would regularly work 6am-6pm plus respond to messages overnight. B) in my early years I too worked my butt off in a very similar manner thinking this was The Way(tm) until I realized I was burning myself out (though if I was making Microsoft money back then I’m sure I would have accepted it) so maybe this is a rite of passage. Or maybe I’m still harboring completely unacceptable norms