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Re:Choose your status game wisely by lambdasquirrel on Saturday April 02, 2022 @01:01AM (#30885948)
For sure. But have you worked at any non-profits? Most of the folks I know who do have a hard time, to put it mildly.

I've done my share of social-good tech companies, as well as engineer's dream-job stuff. After reflecting on this article, I realized that:

1. I finally enjoy my tech job after I stopped chasing the status game in tech.

2. I finally enjoy my hobbies after I stopped chasing the status game in those hobbies too!

I wish things were different on the social-good front. I just try to do good whenever I can in the regular day-to-day world, plus some donations here and there.

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Re:Choose your status game wisely by sacrosancty on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:31PM (#30994527)
Probably most of the social good you do is the paid work for your tech job. Unless you work at some social-harm-causing company. Giving to charity is nothing compared to giving up most of your life's limited capacity to do high-value productive work. It's easy to forget that work is mostly really really good for the people you're doing the work for or their customers or someone down the chain who's ultimately paying you.
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