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I think it’s sad you’re getting downvoted. Sad, how people now sneer at hard work and dedication. Working in a place where everyone is passionate about the mi

• fsociety 4y ago
  Because many of us have heard too many stories of sacrificing years of your life for a startup/company only to get screwed over with equity etc.
  • cbeach 4y ago
    Startups are really hard and most fail. Anyone who goes into one without knowing this is naive. The important thing is to go in there and work bloody hard, because in a startup your hard work is uniquely able to contribute to the success of the company. And you’ll be handsomely rewarded if the company succeeds. Many startups are unsuccessful, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless or undesirable to have the option of striving within this environment. All big companies were startups at some point. We must maintain the culture of hard work and high risk/reward, otherwise our economy will consist of uninspiring medium-sized companies (with the only large ones being banks or oil companies), as is the situation in most of the world outside America.
    • Marsymars 4y ago
      > We must maintain the culture of hard work and high risk/reward, otherwise our economy will consist of uninspiring medium-sized companies (with the only large ones being banks or oil companies), as is the situation in most of the world outside America. You think that without that culture, there would be no large companies other than banks or oil companies anywhere in the world?
• MandieD 4y ago
  Many of us did this sort of thing in our twenties and sneered at the whiners nattering on about “work/life balance,” then discovered there’s more to life than pulping yourself for… a pat on the back, a voucher for a dinner for two at a nice steakhouse, and the expectation that you’ll do it all over again the next time that the CEO just has to have some feature.
  • alexnewman 4y ago
    Sounds like you worked for bad people. That’s not how everyone is
• alexnewman 4y ago
  Right… I don’t get it