[pancaku]

Hi rejectedandsad,

I'm making my first comment on Hackernews because I saw your remark. I would encourage you to seek help for this negative thinking or at the very least reflect. I promise the majority of people in society do not view you as subhuman for working at Amazon. This is really an irrational thought.

Based on your post history I think you are beating yourself up over a non issue. You're working at a top company, with reasonable pay, and exciting projects. Yes some companies pay much higher, have more perks, better wlb, etc. but there will always be a better company wherever you work. Your work doesn't define you.

Chin up my friend, and maybe seek some professional help to improve your thoughts. You don't have to go through life suffering like this! I used to get extremely anxious/depressed focusing on my career but after going through therapy, and yes some medication I have been feeling much much better.

Best of luck!

[rejectedandsad]

While I appreciate that and I've been working on it, it seems that whatever I do I just see more evidence for it - the $70k wage cut to not associate with people like me, the significantly lower social class and standard of living people like me have all weighs on me pretty heavily these days.

[solipsism]

If you ever made it to Google, you'd immediately see the stratification within. The elites with their lake houses... the people operating at levels you never will be able to... the people bailing to start startups because Google got boring.

Fuck it and be happy. And while you're working on it, you should consider no longer voicing your negative thoughts. It definitely doesn't help, and there's a good chance it makes it worse. (Or don't, I'm not telling you what to do obviously)

[rejectedandsad]

Perhaps, but I don't think there are even elites at my company with lake houses that they can invite me to for team events - even our directors say they can't afford to vacation in the Hamptons or buy Herman Miller chairs (whereas going to the Boss's $10M house for whisky tasting is seemingly common at Google).

[solipsism]

You've missed my point.

When you get your first yacht, you'll start to notice all the better yachts with mini yachts. It's never ending.

[knrz]

The solution isn’t more rationalizing, but ceasing the thought :)

[renewiltord]

This is not how people outside of the HN/Reddit/Twitter bubble view Amazon. They're generally a highly trusted company and the American populace views people who work there fairly positively.

Amazon have one of the most trusted brands in America, rivaling Google in how people view them.

It's your life, so you're welcome to feel as you will, but if it's on inaccuracies then you're just hurting yourself.