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My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Re: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Post by ExpiredLink »

ignostic wrote: post #6

I feel like I'm a different species when I hear someone excited about working 80+ hours a week. Having so little free time and so little time to spend with friends and family seems like a sad life regardless of the paycheck. I agree with this: "Have a passion for Doing something rather than Being a title on a business card." I also agree that "Showing up a lot increases your odds" (in this case meaning working a lot…

> I feel like I'm a different species when I hear someone excited about working 80+ hours a week.

Work smart, not hard. 80+ hours people are not the brightest.

Re: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Post by crusso »

scott_karana wrote: post #108
crusso wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

morality of finding out if someone is single It was likely asked in a perfectly moral way as in, "Do you have any family reason why you couldn't pick up and move to another country next week?" Moving someone to another country is a huge life change. More so if there is a spouse and/or children involved. Sadly, political correctness makes casual concerns something to be litigated over.

Why even make family part of the equation?... "Do you have any reasons why you couldn't pick up and move to another country next week?"

People say things. Some of it is immoral. Some of it is stupid. Some of it is neither, maybe just throw-away. In this case, actually, the original question about having a family stuck in the author's head (not in a bad way) for decades. He thought of it as a good way to introduce the next part of his story.

It seems a shame to me that we're so knee-jerk politically correct that we can't allow people to not say things perfectly the first time, even when their intent was perfectly harmless.

Re: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Post by yebyen »

icebraining wrote: post #94
prawks wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe private browsing masks your IP, and I'm not sure it changes your user agent either. It's very likely LinkedIn can still track your activity if you're browsing in a Private tab.

Even if they track, they're not going to report it.

LinkedIn was on HackerNews for doing _just that_ a few weeks ago. That is, associating your IP address with your identity and tracking whose profile you clicked (to report back to them) even when you're not logged in.

Re: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Post by hackula1 »

marvin wrote: post #105
hackula1 wrote: post #88

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Da Vinci most certainly worked 80 hour weeks, and I am sure he loved every minute of it. Why? Because he got paid to think up cool shit day in and day out. I have worked jobs that were so mind numbingly boring that I could barely muster 30 hours a week when I was single. Now I am married and could easily pull 60-70 hours a week at my significantly more interesting job. Work is the place you will spend most of your li…

You should keep in mind that not everyone is able to work "80-hour weeks". I myself would not stand a chance. It is cool if dedicating your life to work like this works out for you, but it is irresponsible to hold it up as some ideal which everyone must aspire to. I'm not sure if this was the intention of your comment, but I get the general sense whenever this subject pops up on HN that you aren't really doing your b…

> I'm not sure if this was the intention of your comment

Definitely not my intention, although I did not specify. An expectation of anything over a 40 hr/wk average is completely unreasonable IMHO. I only meant to say that some people happily choose to work over that average for periods of time.

Re: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Post by gregd »

rfnslyr wrote: post #107
gregd wrote: post #71

As a mid-40s year old male, I can assure you that working 70+ hours a week will eventually kill you. Your body will respond in ways you never expected in your youth. And it's insidious. It will sneak up on you and catch up to you when you least expect it. If you're lucky, there will be time to take corrective action.

Could you elaborate on the tolls it takes?

Sure.

For me, the stress has manifested itself in the following ways, I have high-blood pressure, I have fatty liver, I have high cholesterol, I'm overweight, my eyesight is horrid, I grind my teeth while I sleep which has resulted in broken teeth, I have one gold crown and another chipped tooth and have a really messed up "sleep" schedule.

I have chronic back problems, allergies and get frequent colds.

All of this due to the stress of working long, hard hours. Keep in mind that I have a diet which is better than the typical American's. I've cut a lot of sugar out of my lifestyle.

Re: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

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Post by dennisgorelik »

gregd wrote: post #115
rfnslyr wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on the tolls it takes?

Sure. For me, the stress has manifested itself in the following ways, I have high-blood pressure, I have fatty liver, I have high cholesterol, I'm overweight, my eyesight is horrid, I grind my teeth while I sleep which has resulted in broken teeth, I have one gold crown and another chipped tooth and have a really messed up "sleep" schedule. I have chronic back problems, allergies and get frequent colds. All of this d…

How do you know you wouldn't have all these problems if you worked less?
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