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Re: Telecommuting rationale (Was: Questions about the work day for the Whirlers)
Subject:Re: Telecommuting rationale (Was: Questions about the work day for the Whirlers) From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:39:50 -0700
What you said... minus the IPO opportunities. (*Sigh*.....)
> Chris
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> At the height of my start up years, I was doing a 60-mile-each-way daily
> commute on more or less standard working hours, then was online from home
> for another six hours or so with my overseas staff. There is a certain
> "start up warrior" braggadocio that - along with the visions of IPO stock
> options dancing in your head - provides enough adrenaline to make that kind
> of workday routine doable, but after one or two good start up cash outs and
> a half dozen belly flops, the juice just doesn't flow as easily as it used
> to.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
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> On 9/19/2014 12:17 PM, Kathleen MacDowell wrote:
>
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>> I didn't get the impression anyone was bragging, but I was impressed by
>> the
>> fortitude some people display.
>>
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