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Hopefully the new opportunity really does allow a balanced life. Technologies and companies rise and fall quickly, products appear and become irrelevant even fa
by OldSchool 14y ago
Hopefully the new opportunity really does allow a balanced life. Technologies and companies rise and fall quickly, products appear and become irrelevant even faster. You get just one chance to be present while your children grow up and your effect on them lasts beyond your lifetime. They are watching you all the time; you are at the very least a landmark in each of their coordinate systems, if not the origin itself.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoSeconded, and in this world of test based interviews and be awesome now expectations, I want to create a company and a ethos that is not merely family friendly, but family biased. - not duvet days, but sick kid days - we expect you simply not to turn up 9 days in winter and call, 3 days in summer, just because you have a sick kid and shoukd be there not here - remote working as a default - benefits including emergency nannys, flying ou to a conference - fly your kids too! (Yeah might not see that as a benefit :-) I don't know how to get there just yet, but as a family man and business owner I know I need to hire people with child care responsibilities, because else I am just hiring 25 year olds, and I like old school.