Re:Success at Work, Failure at Home
by jusben1369 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:15PM
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I'm only going to reply to this because so many of you got this impression. My take was "very early on you have to do these incredibly long development hours to ship a product, hit a milestone, and raise" The engineer's were looking at a rough 3 - 6 months of weekends etc. The CEO was looking at a rough 7 years. I'm not advocating that the engineers needed to even do that rough 3 -6 months just highlighting why I think he doesn't show remorse vs talk about the pain of CEO's.
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Maybe I'm just unlucky but I've never worked at a startup where pressure relents on engineering after the initial push. I feel on call 24/7 now that we're in production with paying customers.
I think you're just unlucky - if my CEO sees me working at 8 pm or later, he tells me to go home, even if we're in a big push. He wants me ready to do more quality work the day after, and not burn out.
Re:Success at Work, Failure at Home
by jusben1369 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:36PM
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As I said I'm not endosring it. Just explaining what seemed like a gap for so many readers.