Re:John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)
by djhn on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:32PM
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Out of curiosity, how would you rate on a scale of 1%-100% the extent to which your professional work aligns with what you want to do professionally later in your career?
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Great question. Considering all possible lines of work, maybe 99.5 %? But that's a little like saying I share 98 % of my DNA with chimpanzees -- maybe those last 2 % are the parts of interest.
Considering just the general area of IT, maybe 80 %? I get to do product development which is my interest, but there are also many things which I would like to be different, like purpose of product, organisational size, leadership philosophies, etc.
Now -- why do you ask?
I'm curious to hear about people who have found themselves in such a great place professionally.
I can work all waking hours on passion projects (including the boring grind - not just the infatuation and ideation phase) as long as it's self directed. Finding work opportunities that aren't orthogonal to long term areas of interest and don't feel like accumulating useless experience and constructing a parallel career is hard.