How I lost 160lbs after selling my company to Atlassian(matterapp.com) |
How I lost 160lbs after selling my company to Atlassian(matterapp.com) |
What I and many of my peers do is split up the day with a long break in the middle. We'll commonly go for a 1-1.5hr run in the middle of the day along Embarcadero to try to obtain the best of both worlds, not losing our equity and staying healthy.
We must all make our own choices. But for many your choices look reckless. You are sacrificing much in pursuit of something you will probably never capture because by the time you are in a position to capture it you will have turned yourself into a person unable to benefit from the thing you pursue.
For many in your position, your current lifestyle is fun and exciting. It's a ride. If that is true for you, so be it. But if you have outgrown that, don't chain yourself to the hope of some false future. Figure out how to achieve happiness today while securing financial stability for the future.
Consider moving to Alabama and working a 9-5 job. Mowing your lawn every Saturday and playing frisbee with your kids isn't everybody's ideal, but it might be a lot more satisfying than you expect.
An 11 hour work day as a matter of course? I'm sorry but this truly sounds miserable. If all you have time for outside of work is sleep, whats the point?
>"We'll commonly go for a 1-1.5hr run in the middle of the day along Embarcadero to try to obtain the best of both worlds, not losing our equity and staying healthy."
So even your "break" from the office involves being around the same work people? That activity may be physically healthy but maybe not the best mentally. This sounds like an incredibly unbalanced life style.
IDK if this is considered insane, but $100-$250 grand is a really big deal for someone with student debt.
Aside: going for a mid-day walk has benefits beyond health -- it also helps creativity [1].
[1] http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf
Is there actually a good reason to put yourself in such conditions?
I know not hiring night owls was mentioned, but I feel like this isn't the way to go. Even in startups one can make a ton of the communication async.
I know that my mind doesn't work 9-5, it's much more chunked and a good bit of that late. If I try to force it, I end up working in the evening to make up for low productivity.
You should really have recommended your nutritionist if they were so instrumental.
It's very hard to find an honest 4-5 star review and the 1-star reviews are usually from people with very personal/specific issues with the company
i wouldn't trust the salary bands, however
If you were working 9-5 and I offered you a night job for 4 hours a day, would you take it? If I promised you $200K if you did the night job for two years, would you take it? If you got $0 if you quit before the two years was up, would you take it? I can pull out of the deal at any time in the next two years.
I know a guy who scrubs toilets from 4am-8am M-F for $10/hr. He expects that to turn into $100K in about 5 years with careful investment. If he just stuck it in a 0% savings account, it will be $50K in 5 years. Financially, this seems to be a smarter plan than yours. But if you really enjoy what you do in your four extra hours per day, and you really hate scrubbing toilets... maybe your way is better. The point is, there is lots of room to question your choice.
You'd be walking away with several hundreds of thousands of dollars of promise. Unless they IPO that's effectively worthless.