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As someone who recently shifted from an academic, paper writing position to a bigCo job, "Don't." That's really all I can say. No matter how good you think i
by existencebox 12y ago
As someone who recently shifted from an academic, paper writing position to a bigCo job,
"Don't."
That's really all I can say. No matter how good you think it is, it will break your spirit, and if doing meaningful work at a reasonable pace is what's important for you, you (probably, there are always exceptions) won't get it in the corporate world.
EDIT: (I realize this is a very delayed response, but I've been mulling over this very issue for a few days now and it's something rather painfully close to home for me.)
- yodsanklai 12y agoThanks for your input. Actually, I've been considering making this shift, at least temporarily. I'd like to do something different for a while. But it probably won't happen anyway.
- existencebox 12y agoThis echoes a lot of the sentiment that I had when I moved, and frankly I regret it. I can't obviously know that all of our variables are the same, but for me, I lost the ability to work in a place that had a friendly work environment, with nearly full control over how and what I worked on, the ability to publish, AND work on a full stack, in exchange for a doubled paycheck and losing all of the above, this was simply not worth it and I spend most days here counting down until I've "paid my dues" and can go back into an area I feel more passionate about without burning any bridges.