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thats a bit broad - define meaningful work? - why is it more meaningful to go work at say a YC funded startup - than it is to go work for a larger corporation w
by kamakazizuru 14y ago
thats a bit broad - define meaningful work? - why is it more meaningful to go work at say a YC funded startup - than it is to go work for a larger corporation working in the same space? Lets face it - most startups dont make a huge "impact" - on anything other than the pockets of investors and founders - and that too in a small percentage of the successful cases that get overly romanticized!
- elbear 14y agoHe didn't define meaningful, because it's subjective and unique individual, so it might well be working for a larger corporation. His point was that the attitude around HN is to look for meaningful work as opposed to work that just pays the bills.
- kamakazizuru 14y agowhy cant "just pay the bills" be meaningful? - for more than 70% of the world thats very meaningful. Its also flawed to assume that everyone on HN is someone sitting in the valley with a bunch of job offers.
- elbear 14y agoYou wouldn't call it "just paying the bills" if it was meaningful. Meaningful in this context means something that you would do for free. At least, that's how I define it. That's not to say that 70% of the world's struggle is meaningless. It means survival. Also, you don't have to be in the valley to wish for meaningful work. I'm not and I do look for work that I enjoy doing.
- sherm8n 14y agoI have many friends who are working just to pay the bills. And they hate their jobs. Most people actually dislike their job in some way.
- kamakazizuru 14y agoYou got to make up your mind ;) - either he didn´t define meaningful - which makes this entire thread of you´re argument flawed (or diverging from the original topic which was the post by sherm8n) - or he did define it - similar to how you did - in which case your original comment is moot.
- sherm8n 14y agoStartups make a a huge impact for users though. So useful that they're willing to be early adopters of a product that's far from perfect.