Passion over Profits
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Passion over Profits
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#2Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world.
Trying to do that with your own work has inherent maximum scaling limits. Earning money that you can then donate to those causes does not.
More money means more options, more wiggle room.
Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
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#3Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world. Trying to do that with your own work has inherent maximum scaling limits. Earning money that you can then donate to those causes does not. More money means more options, more wiggle room. Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
"the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice"
especially if you do not wanna move to a different city bc of personal reasons.
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#4While I understand the sentiment, its often not that black and white.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago, with one company doing something novel and "better for humanity" v/s just another saas that paid more. While I was leaning towards the former, what really bothered me was 1) their equity structure was quite pitiful, lower than industry standard and 2) They weren't flexible with remote work. Now, I completely understand if the base compensation is smaller than usual, if the equity is higher. The way the equity was structured, it just seemed like in the off chance that the company did become very successful, almost all the benefits would accrue to the founder. And if they weren't offering the best comp, benefits in other areas (like remote flexibility) would have really helped even things out.
I am very mindful of who gets the "benefits of my passion". Because this is how a lot of people get free labor from idealistic engineers. So while I would have preferred the work of the former, I ended up going with the latter; and I don't regret it.
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#5Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world. Trying to do that with your own work has inherent maximum scaling limits. Earning money that you can then donate to those causes does not. More money means more options, more wiggle room. Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
I haven't yet found a way to hire someone find work interesting on my behalf.
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#6While I understand the sentiment, its often not that black and white. I was in a similar situation a few years ago, with one company doing something novel and "better for humanity" v/s just another saas that paid more. While I was leaning towards the former, what really bothered me was 1) their equity structure was quite pitiful, lower than industry standard and 2) They weren't flexible with remote work. Now, I compl…
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#7Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world. Trying to do that with your own work has inherent maximum scaling limits. Earning money that you can then donate to those causes does not. More money means more options, more wiggle room. Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
> Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world.
> More money means more options, more wiggle room.
Generally while having less time for yourself and suffering more.
That's brilliant. I'll take a dozen.
> Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
Exactly. Being able (have) to commute to a campus which has a forest inside and ample place to walk with fresh air beats having to stay in a flat 9 hours 5 days a week by a mile.
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#8Until you've worked at a job where you're genuinely excited to get up every morning and hack, it's very hard to empathize with this sentiment. Doubly so because employers compelling enough to make employees passionate about their jobs often exploit this and have extremely substandard working conditions (exhibit A: academia). Despite that, once you've been genuinely passionate about a job, it's very hard to see the world any other way.
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#9Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world. Trying to do that with your own work has inherent maximum scaling limits. Earning money that you can then donate to those causes does not. More money means more options, more wiggle room. Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
> Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world. > More money means more options, more wiggle room. Generally while having less time for yourself and suffering more. That's brilliant. I'll take a dozen. > Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice. Exactly . Being able (have) to commute to a…
If you're able to work from home, why not live inside a forest with fresh air and walking space?
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#10I'd take the people over the work anytime, the best places i've ever worked at are the places where the people are great to work with, even the slog/bureaucratic work is still good when you have people that are great at what they do and are fun to be around.
Varies a lot where you are on your career as well, i'd never take a job that pays less or is "startupy" at this point in my life, i'm here to make money now and not dream about some future that will likely not happen (worked at multiple startups that led to nothing).
So i'd recommend people to mostly forget passion and think about what you want in your life and your job. I find passion in all things extremely overrated, what you need is love, steady, consistent and reassuring. And don't forget sentiments don't pay bills, money does.