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by kpwagner 2696 days ago
Honesty and self-awareness. I'll take those over naive emphatic workaholism.
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Have you watched the documentaries on the Fyre Festival?Everyone in the company can be honest but if the top isn't then it doesn't matter. You can't really know that up front.
... I probably should have read this when I turned 20...
Fret not. I was a naive emphatic workaholic my first two years out of college--working as an investment banking analyst. It's taken me ten years to figure out that I wasn't honest with myself (or others) about what I wanted, and I've paid a price.