@M_E_Beckwith @jenn_next_door Hugs. I’m glad now you are free. I don’t know how you couldn’t have baggage. Have you found telltale on YouTube? Many hugs.
@SigOlson@peterclowes@Twitter Shout this from the rooftops, whether it's start up or agency culture. I've had my fill in the past grinding out crazy weeks and weekends to meet artificial deadlines and self-inflicted emergencies with little to show in the long term.
No, thank you.
@peterclowes@Twitter Rule #1 in software engineering: never join a death march; you will die tired and your grave will be unmarked.
The trip is only worth it if YOU believe you can survive and reach the upside. The upside does not need to be money. But it needs to be something that you value.
So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out?