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by abscondment 5296 days ago
I'm 27, with a wife and three kids. I've been working full-time on my own startup for the past 9 months. Without salary.

See, there are plenty of us who can kick ass and raise a family at the same time. Not to mention plan and budget responsibly. In fact, you might really want to hire people who are good at that sort of thing, rather than the Red Bull-chugging, couch-sleeping, college codemonkey stereotype. But I suppose stereotyping is what got us here in the first place, and that's not fair to Red Bull aficionados.

I guess I'd just rather you let me and other prospective employees assess the risks for ourselves. That means frank discussion about clear, accurate information. But don't curtail things because of personal bias.

1 comments

I understand what you are getting at and I agree but I'm not really sure it would be in your best advantage to divulge that kind of information in interviews for instance.