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No matter how you make a living or who you think you work for, you only work for one person, yourself.

This advice is the key to remaining motivated in a job that doesn't challenge you. The best manager I have ever worked for got me thinking from the perspective that I should treat the organisation I work for like it was my own business. Once I applied that mentality I found that I was a lot more focused and determined to have an impact on the bottom line.

I still spend half my day on HN though!

I can only think that way for so long. Because eventually, your boss or manager will push the company in a direction you don't agree with..and then it will make you realize why you want to have your own company.

> I still spend half my day on HN though!

You should fire yourself. ;-)

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