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How am I supposed to spend time with my family if I'm expected to be at work from 9am until 7pm (that would be a 50 hour work week)? Also, I assume that most st
by nikomen 12y ago
How am I supposed to spend time with my family if I'm expected to be at work from 9am until 7pm (that would be a 50 hour work week)? Also, I assume that most startups either offer unlimited vacation (which from what I've heard means you don't get to take a lot of vacation), or they offer 2 weeks of vacation to start out. So, I have a couple hours at home with my family and only a couple weeks out of the year to take time off to spend with them. That doesn't add up.
Maybe I'm incorrect about the average startup, but at least from what I've seen and been offered, I would have to give up too much of my family time to work for one.
- velocitypsycho 12y agoIt can be done, that said, it can't be done in most startups. Many startups are composed of mid-twenties white males. The culture of work becomes 10am to 8pm, then go drinking. If you have a family, you could work 7am to 3:30pm and be out the door in time to see your family, then work some more at night. But you'll get glares, and eventually you won't be a "team player" or whatever they decide to make up. If you can find a startup run by people with children it can be a good fit, but you don't know until you interview.