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I get the impression that this lifestyle is a very solitary one although it does seem to be by choice. Which is fine but he seems to make quite a few assumption
by kyle_t 13y ago
I get the impression that this lifestyle is a very solitary one although it does seem to be by choice. Which is fine but he seems to make quite a few assumptions about the way other people live their life and why.
For example:
"However, there is an absurd social pressure on men to wear ties. They do this as a form of sucking up to the boss."
Perhaps they just like the way they look in tie?
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Edited to add more context to quote.
- petercooper 13y agoI think the post might be old (though post 1998). Tie wearers haven't been the majority in any tech setting I can think of post dot-com boom (although I have no experience of academia where they may well remain hot.) I'm a frequent tie wearer and tend to be the odd one out nowadays even in management-heavy situations! :-)
- hga 13y agoIn the relevant Boston area business and social circles in the '80s, a techie wearing a tie, even to interviews, was pretty much unheard of, so I'm pretty sure that goes way back further. If you'd been in those circles in the '80s, you clearly would have been viewed as eccentric as RMS for being a "frequent tie wearer", but all else being equal, we would have loved you as much as we loved him ^_^.