Here, if you hate your job enough and you’re legibly good, you can always just go start a company instead.
It sounds good. I have no idea how high bar is “legibly good”, e.g. whether I would have a chance to pass it. (This is not just about me, but generally, what percent of programmers this actually applies to.)
Working 60 hours a week on something truly aligned to my values doesn’t feel so bad. Still, it would compete for time with everything else, such as social life, family, taking care of health.
It also seems to me like a harmful meme, on a society level. With imbalance of power, you get preference falsification. You get people who are not aligned with their jobs, but need to pay their bills, and sometimes the condition for getting the job is pretending that you are super passionate about it. Then the employers can use this meme to push them to work 60 hours a week. In such case, “work/life balance” is the socially acceptable excuse you can use when you are not allowed to express your true preferences.
It sounds good. I have no idea how high bar is “legibly good”, e.g. whether I would have a chance to pass it. (This is not just about me, but generally, what percent of programmers this actually applies to.)
Working 60 hours a week on something truly aligned to my values doesn’t feel so bad. Still, it would compete for time with everything else, such as social life, family, taking care of health.
It also seems to me like a harmful meme, on a society level. With imbalance of power, you get preference falsification. You get people who are not aligned with their jobs, but need to pay their bills, and sometimes the condition for getting the job is pretending that you are super passionate about it. Then the employers can use this meme to push them to work 60 hours a week. In such case, “work/life balance” is the socially acceptable excuse you can use when you are not allowed to express your true preferences.