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Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:24AM (#22420530)
I get paid and the work gets done. I don’t have to be passionate about it. It’s just work.

I recommend introspection as it relates to life choices and identity. Nobody cares about their job on their death bed, only wishing they had prioritized more time with friends, family, and loved ones. Work backwards from there, and optimize to be happy with what you valued and how you spent your life. A job generates income, but is not who you are as a human.

TLDR Treating work as just work, and not something of significant importance, is not toxic IMHO. On the contrary, it is the healthiest way to address it as a necessary (for now) part of our lives. YMMV. Good luck.

Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by artsyca on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:26AM (#22421082)
Hey I appreciate that but I don't have the luxury to treat it like anything but survival I used to be very laid back but as you said once again I am not willing to compromise things I value a lot in exchange for things I value less in other words 8 hours a day doing something I don't care about to gain one hour at best with people I care about sounds like a bad deal

I can't help thinking how much effort would be saved if everyone wasn't so busy being busy while trying to seem somehow aloof it's pure toxicity I don't see anything good coming out of it but you're right YMMV you've only got one life to invest in doing whatever you feel is best

Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by artsyca on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:34AM (#22421114)
Like to clarify

Whether I spend my day playing foosball and drinking kombucha with a bunch of ass dragging laggards or saving orphan refugees in a war zone I'll be equally tired when I get home to my family

After a decade or more of doing the same thing and having the same asinine conversations with an endlessly changing cast of quirky but equally uninvested dilberts I begin to ask myself my kids are stuck in daycare for this shit?

Some of us say meh life is but a born - work - die type of proposition just have another cup of company coffee for the road while others ask why the fuck are we still wearing clothes from the mall

Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by artsyca on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:39AM (#22421140)
We're both looking at the same evidence and drawing different conclusions I respect your opinions but I wouldn't want to work in an environment like that my whole life because I genuinely have better things to do
Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by artsyca on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:35AM (#22421120)
> only wishing they had prioritized more time with friends, family, and loved ones.

That's the point dude why would you spend a whole life passionlessly working like an emotionless robot only to regret not being with your friends?

Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:34PM (#22429506)
The money part pays for everything else.
Re:Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture by artsyca on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:48PM (#22430562)
So the tradeoff is doing something you don't particularly value in exchange for something you do value I feel like you're ripping yourself off