I want to ask a slightly separate question along these lines.
/rant
As a hacker/startup junkie, do you find yourself becoming judgmental of others and their work habits? A friend of mine was talking about their 'long workday' since they had to stay half an hour late, and I ended up ranting about how thats not a long work day. I felt a bit like a jerk after, since I hardly want to tell people how to live their lives, but it seemed like this talented individual is wasting their skills and lacks motivation.
I suppose what I am asking is does anyone else find that most people they know seem relatively unmotivated? Another situation I find common is a friend and my brother both talk about quitting work and starting their own thing, but when I actually worked briefly with both they seemed to average only a few hours of work a week into the project. How do you politely suggest that with that level of effort that they may not be suited to a startup?
I like to think of myself as open minded and non-judgmental, but for people I care for that seems to get thrown out the window.
Most people haven't bothered to find a job that's really fulfilling for them; many people don't even think it's possible. It's just a necessary evil to pay for the rest of the things in your life. How motivated are you to tackle your "necessary evils?"
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I want to ask a slightly separate question along these lines.
/rant
As a hacker/startup junkie, do you find yourself becoming judgmental of others and their work habits? A friend of mine was talking about their 'long workday' since they had to stay half an hour late, and I ended up ranting about how thats not a long work day. I felt a bit like a jerk after, since I hardly want to tell people how to live their lives, but it seemed like this talented individual is wasting their skills and lacks motivation.
I suppose what I am asking is does anyone else find that most people they know seem relatively unmotivated? Another situation I find common is a friend and my brother both talk about quitting work and starting their own thing, but when I actually worked briefly with both they seemed to average only a few hours of work a week into the project. How do you politely suggest that with that level of effort that they may not be suited to a startup?
I like to think of myself as open minded and non-judgmental, but for people I care for that seems to get thrown out the window.
/end rant
Most people haven't bothered to find a job that's really fulfilling for them; many people don't even think it's possible. It's just a necessary evil to pay for the rest of the things in your life. How motivated are you to tackle your "necessary evils?"
My girlfriend works 90+ hour weeks in the hospital, when she's limited by law to 80 per week.
I don't get to complain.
I suppose there is another side of the coin where people work a lot and then you want to complain they work too much too :)
Find someone else to politely deliver your message. That way the messenger they shoot won't be you.