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Re:What It’s Really Like to Work at Google by notJim on Monday January 16, 2012 @09:06PM (#3473459)
It's strange how this article praises what appears to be a lifestyle that's utterly devoted to and centered a corporation as a good thing. The guy spends his day doing Google things (some work, some merely provided by Google), goes home and sees his family for a couple hours, does a few more Google things, then goes to bed.

Surely our lives should involve more than that.

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Re:What It’s Really Like to Work at Google by hn_reader on Monday January 16, 2012 @09:25PM (#3473501)
Perhaps the guy feels his work is important and derives personal satisfaction from it. That might make him happier in the long run and a better husband and father.
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Re:What It’s Really Like to Work at Google by wavephorm on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @03:08AM (#3474174)
Or maybe this guy has become convinced that devoting his most productive years to help a corporation earn more profit is more rewarding than building a business where he owns 100% of his work.
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