You will always find another reason to crunch. Don't start. It never works out well.
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You have to decide early whether to prioritize for own happiness or for that as experienced by median in parents' generation. Choose well.
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Negotiate aggressively. No for-profit company is more morally worthy of money than you are, nor will any appreciate $X0k / N years like you.
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Getting in on the ground floor of something (a tech, a company, etc) is a lot riskier, and not proportionately rewarded, relative to +1 year
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Life is much easier when you have moral anchors outside of the workplace: family, faith, community, etc. Give them more time/effort.
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Of the number of work Worst Days Ever, the count whose crisis du jour really mattered six months later: zero. Not even a tiny exaggeration.
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The media, including our enthusiast press and trade rags, knows NOTHING about what we do for a living. Read less; you'll save sanity points.
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People who give you advice, including myself, may not always have your incentives. Special case to be wary of: where they buy your services.
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Find a peer group of people you enjoy being with, ideally slightly advanced relative to you. You'll spend career rubbing elbows happily.
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@GabrielBerlin Mine is mostly on the Internet, which is surprisingly viable these days for maintaining medium-strength ties.
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@GabrielBerlin I'm much closer with ~20 Internet friends than with anyone I went to college with or worked at "real job" with, for example.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GabrielBerlin Median distance from me is probably 6000 miles, so I get that there are challenges involved in this approach ;)0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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