I work for one reason and one reason alone - to trade 40 hours of labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. The company is not going to give me money for “caring about society”. They are going to give me money to meet my quarterly goals to help them meet their profit goals for the company and in a former life , to make them look good for the public market pre-IPO and at another company for an acquisition.
I give a company 40 hours a week and all of my 30 years of industry experience and they give me money (and in a former life RSUs)
Well I was 46 years old and married at the time (still married). It helped when I could tell my wife she could stop working and getting up early and I was working remotely. It made those late nights and early morning much more enjoyable.
“Whoever said money can’t solve your problems
Must not have had enough money to solve them”
(Partially joking, I make the same post BigTech as a “staff consultant” as an L5 I did mentor as an intern and when they first came back as an L4. Nothing eye popping. But decent)
I give a company 40 hours a week and all of my 30 years of industry experience and they give me money (and in a former life RSUs)