One thing mainstream jobs have in common with cool startup work... the schleps. Any interesting work involves schleps, for sufficiently loose values of "any". A

One thing mainstream jobs have in common with cool startup work... the schleps. Any interesting work involves schleps, for sufficiently loose values of "any". And the schlep is no fun. That's what makes it a schlep. Now think about all the jobs that are all schlep, all the time, with no intellectual or moral reward (and usually little fiscal reward). Of course the people doing that are going to think it sucks - it does suck!