[toomuchtodo]

Median age of a YC founder is 24-25. It’s kids hiring kids for startup pressure cookers where most will fail. Professionalism is nice, I highly recommend it when you’re equipped to deliver it (both emotionally and through life experience) but as a professional, I wouldn’t expect it in these contexts. More like a series of tech frat houses grinding to liquidity, acquisition, or failure (from least to most likely).

If you’re going to fail hard and learn it from it, you could do worse than these experiences. If you’re at a startup, you’re either there for the economic opportunity of being on a rocket ship (equity lottery ticket), learning how to be a founder (because you might want to found your own startup), or learning how to do what your role is because you don’t have enough experience to be hired elsewhere (imho). Getting fired is fine, as long as you grow from the experience and weren’t actively or intentionally malicious (don’t do that). Pick yourself up, do better next role and company cast. It’s just a job.

[andytratt]

excellent analysis. except when the kids hiring someone older than them. named zach & andy. haha

[toomuchtodo]

I can appreciate the experience you had. With time and experience comes wisdom. Most of us are figuring all of this out along the way. Try to approach these situations with grace in the future, even when you aren’t managed as you’d expect to be. Assume positive intent until you have strong evidence you no longer shouldn’t, but also have a strong safety net and plans so you’re never tied to a job economically. This makes getting fired or having to quit a minor annoyance versus an event making you feel like you need to scorch the Earth. Wishing you a positive trajectory and that you land somewhere more compatible.

[andytratt]

yes this is The Future of Loving Grace - andys.blog/future -

(better than dario's) cheers

love the unsolicited wealth of advice

[brcmthrowaway]

I'm just a lowly tech worker at LCOL, but I had a feeling this is what is happening.

[andytratt]

yes it is. everywhere everything all at once as the movie says hahaha

oh and esp for asian americans #metoo

[suttontom]

If you're having a manic episode or other type of mental breakdown, I hope you get help. If this is just how you typically act, and no one has told you yet, your way of communicating is bizarre and deeply off-putting. You will not be able to keep a job.

[andytratt]

great perfect. yes. it's been years. nobody hired me. so i built my company. thanks.