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"Something I wish someone had told me as a kid is that the only real “rule” for work is that you have to be able pay your rent and not hurt anyone and not break
by weinzierl 2y ago
"Something I wish someone had told me as a kid is that the only real “rule” for work is that you have to be able pay your rent and not hurt anyone and not break any laws."
In the article this sounds like a liberating revelation, but for most people this is just a small ridge they struggle to stay and not fall down on either side. The less privileged, the smaller the ridge. The least privileged manage to fall down all sides.
- refulgentis 2y ago100%, been subscribed to this Substack for quite some time, so I mean this as gently as possible: the weird descriptor, and this revelation, are byproducts of hyperfocus on achievements or being on guiderails from parents. Not necessarily a wealth thing, so I don't mean to be talking down about that. I didn't grow up with much, but had to go through the same realization when leaving Google. All the worrying about retirement, TC, etc., tolerating abuse.in the workplace, etc., were mechanisms hiding that it was totally fine to leave. Something that helped me a lot along the way was seeing a comment on Blind from a 50-60 year old with 2M+ TC combined with his lawyer wife in Bay Area. They were getting divorced, and his message was tl;Dr man I was dumb. The part that hit hardest was him pointing out virtually any savings can be wiped away quickly by emergencies, there's not really a safe # once you're making tech bucks.