51–60 of 104 posts
I would quit my job and start my own freelance consulting business. No doubt my employer would hire me and I could escape the internal bureaucracy I have to deal with. Probably do part time as well.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? The layoffs have nothing to do with people loving their jobs or being loyal to their employers.
I just mean people are just not excited about tech as they used to be. I would expect, out of all the sites on the Internet, that people would say something like trying to lead some initiative that they never had the courage to do so before leaving the company if given no opportunity for the love of the industry. Most of my neighbors who have well more than $10M in the bank (Tesla stock, houses, cash, etc.) and they…
If you ever hang out in the nonprofit sector you will notice that a lot of these underpaid workers are independently wealthy as well.
I believe that unless one manages to regress to our primal animal state the brain has a need to think about something in order not to think about self and the possible dark existential stuff which should absolutely be ignored and avoided. In this scenario the best possible way to occupy the brain is to set goals and build discipline towards reaching such goals. Even pleasurable stuff like music or social connection o…
There are two kinds of work being conflated here. In The Prophet (1923), Kahlil Gibran writes On Work: "Work is love made visible." This is the kind of work you're talking about. However, the OP question is "would you still show up to work?" This kind of work is usually for a for-profit company owned by capitalists, with their time controlled by their employer, and their effort disconnected from its impact (the alien…
I'd say that as far as the extraction of brain juices they become exactly the same after a while and maybe the only difference is a smirk when asked about and replying "it beats working" or "it's a tough job but someone has to do it"
Unfortunately my wife has a terminal illness, and while $10m would be quite a lot, when facing the bills of ALS without proper health insurance, that could run out very quickly. With $10m, I'd work, but do all of the things that I don't have the guts to ask for now: Go fully remote all the time (something that I'll likely have to do within the next few years to be a partial caretaker). When the bad times come, which…
As for me, the principal reason for working is that camaraderie. I find 'establishing things together' more valuable and rewarding than the progress or productivity on itself. The for knowledge workers above-average paycheck feels like a luxury.
If you live in a modern 1st world country and have a family, at least 1 child or some old relatives and at least minimal ambition to eat good food and have okay level of life - 10M is not much at all. It’ll get you okayish to allright property (depending on the region), will cover all basic expenses and (if you don’t have anyone with serious illness or financial problems) some non basic ones. For up to 10 years max.…
And I think people who do continue, are engaging in a sociopathic mental illness, that is the primary cause of income inequality, and authoritarian hierarchies in general.
Some people just feel driven to dominate others...