Your human-size life

Post by redwood » Sun, Jun 05, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

ybird wrote: post #42

greggman wrote: post #11

Sorry but I don't agree with this at all. Okay, strike that. I agree with the idea that money isn't everything but ... money is a huge enabler. I rented a 2 bedroom apartment even though I can only sleep in one room. That other room? Friends from around the world visited and stayed there all the time and I got to spend far more time with them than if they had had to stay at a hotel. Heck, they probably wouldn't have…

> Sorry but I don't agree with this at all. The fact that this is the highest voted comment on this post makes me lose all faith in HN.

Took the words out of my mouth. Let's nevertheless assume that a lot of folks are coming from situations where they need to experience first hand what the article is saying before they believe it

Post by johansch » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 7:51 PM UTC

ljw1001 wrote: post #17

johansch wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is easy as an individual contributor but harder when what you do is running engineering teams.

Then don't run engineering teams :) - assuming you can code. When I realized most software companies treat engineers better than they do managers, I switched. I actually can't recall a single employer who didn't treat the engineers at least as well as the (non-executive) management. It's not a panacea, but there is a more regular sense of achievement and less BS.

I think you may be on to something. Whenever I fall back to actual coding I do feel happier...

Being a non-executive manager, as you imply, is often the shittiest of jobs. :/

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