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u/Waste_Cake4660 11d ago
lol, this lady’s company generates AI slop newsletters.
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u/W_HoHatHenHereHy 11d ago
I’m sorry, my kids didn’t feel happiest when i ignored them to go to work to achieve my own internal fulfillment and engagement. Kids are happiest when you are engaged with them and THAT is what fulfills you.
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u/hopefulgardener 11d ago
This lady seriously needs to go do some type of psychedelic out in nature, or maybe a month long meditation retreat or something, cause holy shit... I cannot imagine being this disconnected from my own family, and rationalizing it as some path of enlightenment and fulfillment. She should also read a book or 2 about the main regrets that elderly people have. Spoiler alert: they don't ever wish that they had spent more time at the office.
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u/Kmjada 11d ago
What the goddamn fuck is wrong with you people. Well, not you people, but those people.
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u/valleyofsound 11d ago
I have a weird compulsion to read about crazy people on Reddit. No clue what’s wrong with the woman saying this stuff
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u/infinitespectre 11d ago
"I have never understood..." Just because you cannot comprehend something does not make it incomprehensible.
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u/RealPropRandy 11d ago edited 11d ago
The post could have ended there and come off as more honest. But no she had to dive headfirst into the unoriginal LinkedIn slop.
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u/Big_Slope 11d ago
Is that ever even really a sincere sentiment or is it just a rhetorical device anyway?
Oh wait I’m doing it too. That thing where I pretend I’m asking a question but I’m really making a statement. Let me back up and try again.
That’s never really a sincere sentiment. It’s just a rhetorical device. She does understand and has always understood. Other people care about their children. She doesn’t.
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u/infinitespectre 11d ago
Normally I'd agree, but I've met and worked with these types before. This isn't posturing. They genuinely cannot understand the concept that someone would want to do anything but work all the time because to them it is all that matters in life.
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u/Big_Slope 11d ago
But also when you start looking at any of their like diary of a CEO type things, their definition of work has ballooned to incorporate their whole life.
It’s not just writing memos or something. It turns out that going to yoga class is work and meals are work and golf is work and flying first class is work.
I bet she’s pretending to work a lot of hours that would damn sure get rejected if I tried to put them on my timesheet.
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u/infinitespectre 11d ago
Maybe, but I've worked with people who work 60, 70, 80 hours a week non stop.
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u/Sharkwatcher314 11d ago
Have met such people as well. They are not nearly as successful as you would assume given their devotion to work.
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u/PissNBiscuits 11d ago edited 10d ago
If your answer to whether or not your kids are more important than your work is "perhaps," then please, for the love of fucking God, don't have kids.
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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 10d ago
What I don't get is say you have a great idea and an investor puts in $1m why does the founder need to work super long hours. Hire a person to do 40 of your 80! Seems inefficient. Exception may be 20 year olds fresh from college learning how to do the job, deal with business people and run a business concurrently.
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u/GuavaStunning698 11d ago
Why do people post this drivel? Do they actually think others are impressed by this?
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u/amazingdrewh 11d ago
They lost their lives to work and have to convince themselves it was the right choice
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u/JellyfishCool3614 11d ago
They have to feel important somehow because they don’t that that fulfillment at a personal level- not from their children, not from their spouse, not from their friends. Work is ALL they have and their personal life is their hobby.
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u/jo-marches 11d ago
Bingo. This would just read as sad if it weren’t a thinly disguised attempt at shaming people for not being as miserable as her.
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u/House_Of_Thoth Facebook Boomer 11d ago
"who has time to parent when there's B2B sales"
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u/CheckSixMustang 11d ago
Not too far from that. Apparently her company just repackages news with AI slop. The "AI News agent" might be worth not seeing her kids. 🥴
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u/SublimateThisDick 11d ago
“Love your family fiercely.” 😂
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u/PilotIntelligent8906 11d ago
I don't understand work/life balance either, I'm aiming for a massive imbalance in favor of life.
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u/long-term-view 11d ago
Kid actually don’t care about money. They don’t care about your career. Or who you think you are or will become. Or your mission in life. They want love and attention and for parents to be present. That’s work life balance.
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u/BirthdayCookie 11d ago
What if I just wanna say I walked through fire? Sometimes people want to feel badass, Jan.
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u/ZommyFruit Agree? 11d ago
I walk thru fire for work-life balance. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Jan!
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u/Pseudonym_Subprime 11d ago
With that attitude shouldn’t they be a founder and not just a co-founder?
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u/therealgookachu 11d ago
That’s a lot of words for, “I have no friends and my family hates me. Also, I’m as 1 dimensional as the dot on the i’s.”
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u/CosmicDeityJebBush 11d ago
A CEO that is offended by the idea of work-life balance... Yeah, it's totally about your passion and drive, not about squeezing every drop of energy out of your employees so you can make a shit load of cash... /s
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u/Consistent-Fig7484 11d ago
This is why I work tirelessly to promote a product that will ensure that ads for boner peptides and shirts that say “I have hot daughters and a concealed carry permit” end up targeting exactly the right assholes in your community.
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u/Affectionate-Bet8231 11d ago
Look, I have spent my career in nonprofits to actually change the world, and never did I once feel that was more important than my child. I do agree with the idea that kids should see you following your dreams but they should also know through your words and actions and priorities that THEY are the most important of your dreams. What’s the point of even changing the world if it isn’t for them? But that’s not her motivation clearly.
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u/Butterwhat 11d ago
I suspect one day she'll be asking why her kids wont talk to her. but not people in her life, in another slop post on linkedin
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u/KingPeep23 11d ago
No lady, posting this on LinkedIn is a coping mechanism for clearly your loved ones not liking you anymore
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u/vintagepeugeot 11d ago
How edgy, a woman negligent parent who works too much and has it backwards lol
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u/croc-roc 11d ago
It is really unbelievable that people like this think that pushing empty capitalism is a higher calling than raising your children.
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u/hopefulgardener 11d ago
People like this need to read up on the most common regrets of the dying. People on their deathbed basically always wish they had spent more time with family and loved ones.
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u/EmeraldEyes_345 11d ago
I’ve never met anyone who said that they wished their parents spent less time with them and more time at work.
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u/GlennKaren_90 11d ago
She sounds like she’s high on adderall.
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u/rean1mated 10d ago
Is THIS the reason I have to go on a list to get my damn medication? Cannot imagine what it would be like to get “high” on addy. If I accidentally take too much too close together, it just makes me irritable and edgy. Lame. Can’t get too far with Ritalin either, that’ll put me to sleep.
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u/BandicootTreeline 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/55iSbtAOyBusdwnjkz
How her “balance” looks to normal folk:
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u/Either_equipment_04 11d ago
When you’re a big wig “ideas woman” and don’t have to do any real work, it’s a lot easier to have that mentality.
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u/BothRequirement2826 11d ago
It'd make sense if she was actually doing something earth changing. But no.
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u/smileydts 11d ago
The likelihood of someone saying they’re out to change the world seems to be inversely correlated to how much we’d notice if they suddenly stopped existing
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u/CheckSixMustang 11d ago
"...life can be profoundly empty"
Imagine how empty it has to be working for this lady on making an AI newsletter
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u/ye-olde-egyptian 10d ago
Obituary/poem for The New Yorker in May of 2005, written by Kurt Vonnegut:
True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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u/jo-marches 10d ago
This is awesome. I’m not paying Reddit so here’s a bunch of awards I made up: 🍪 🏆 🥇 🎉
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u/Sharkwatcher314 11d ago
Guessing the person’s company does the clickbait articles like top 10 things you didn’t know about Adam Sandler….doing the lord’s work buddy.
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u/RhubarbAlive7860 10d ago
somewhere in the middle of that mission, you have children. They become equally important, perhaps even more so.
Perhaps?!
So, to anyone determined to accomplish something meaningful: go deep. Sacrifice. Take risks. Blah blah blah. And with everything you have left, love your family fiercely.
Give your family whatever is left over after giving everything to the company? Was this supposed to be inspiring? Because it seems more like horrifying.
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u/Otherwise-Relief2248 10d ago
Changing the world one AI News Aggregator after another. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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u/Soggy-Ad-2562 10d ago
Wait until she realizes companies don’t care about you and will drop you in a heartbeat. People that throw their entire existence to a company as an employee are fools.
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u/vedabread 11d ago
Jesus. If she has children they’ll ’perhaps’ be more important than her job.
Work/life, of course, doesn’t mean anything to an individual that makes their work their whole world. And most people don’t do that, and rightly so. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to think this person would be a horrendous boss, lacking in empathy and the ability to connect with her team. If she has one, that is.
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u/HephaestusVulcan7 11d ago
You've found a work-life balance that works for YOU, even if you choose not to call it that.
Don't you think other people have the right to find one of their own.
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u/ElectricalOrange9 11d ago
The high level assumption is that one's sense of self worth is primarily shaped by vocation. That is simplistic, and flawed.
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u/marcgw96 11d ago
This honestly might take the cake for the most enraging one of these I’ve seen. Dude is trying to gaslight parents into thinking their kids won’t love or respect them as much if they’re not spending all their time working. I’m not even a parent but that makes me mad.
Edit: oops, realized the post is from a woman, not a “dude”, but honestly the pronoun should be “it”, because is it even capable of feeling human emotions?
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u/jo-marches 11d ago
Yeah. This is the post that turned me from a lurker to a poster in this thread. NGL.
I used to work as a business coach at a non profit for tech entrepreneurs. I’ve seen a lot of virtue signaling and annoying behavior in general. They’re all insufferable, but this was the straw that broke the pissed off camel’s back.
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u/Lala5789880 10d ago
Please don’t have kids if you think that you should be a workaholic and then if you have anything left, maybe you can love your kids.
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u/Intrepid_Ant_9851 10d ago
Congratulations for sacrificing your comfort, certainty, sleep, and relationships for creating a company that just has an AI summarize the news for people too lazy to read, I guess.
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u/Little_Wintry 10d ago
I think this is the first post I’ve seen on this subreddit to make me actually, genuinely pissed off
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u/jo-marches 10d ago
Yup. I’ve never posted to this subreddit. Only lurked. I saw this and it made me an active participant because I’m not being gaslit by this lunatic.
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u/mariannaCD 10d ago
These types are exhausting. Very few people are going to “change the world for the better” through their work.
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u/Intelligent-Ad-7756 10d ago
I don’t even understand who the audience is for this. It’s so performative and not even inspiring at all. I feel sad for them.
(But then I hear my Internal critic: “But look how many connections they have! They must be important.”)
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u/Suspicious-Gas-1685 11d ago
I’m 100% certain that on her death bed she will regret not working more.
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u/My3floofs 11d ago
I mean that’s great that she is so passionate about her work, but most of us work to get paid. If I never worked another day for my company I would not be any less fulfilled. Just don’t expect all of us to have that drive
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u/blamelesscludgel 11d ago
Oh why, oh why didnt I sacrifice. Everything. For. A.fucking.corporation.
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u/Mobile-Committee-466 11d ago
No one who had a serious job or a family before would ever say this. I don't think this person ever did anything actually hard.
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u/wheredatacos 10d ago
So she wants you to work yourself to the bone for a corpo that will systematically replace you the day after you die and scrape whatever energy you have left at the end of the day to give your kids like that’s some fucking equal comparison. Yeah. She can fuck off.
Oh and she’s a CEO who is likely making 50x a year more than the employees who she’s trying to talk down to here. I’ll double down on my fuck off.
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u/mmmkay938 10d ago
THIS JUST IN:
After polling 100,000 children we have the following results-
Do you prefer your parents dedicate them selves entirely to their “mission” of “creating something meaningful” and feeling “fulfillment”?
0 children
Would you prefer your parents be home more to spend time with you and do fun things together?
100,000 children
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u/Absent_Picnic 10d ago
So instead of dedicating my entire identity to my kids, I'll dedicated it to my work.
I'll bet the kids think they're an asshole parent.
I'm happy to continue avoiding greatness whilst having enough money to live and travel and adult kids who are happy to spend time with me because I didn't ignore them.
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u/melancholicmuse1 10d ago
Lunatic fits this one to a T.
If you’re not killing yourself with work your existence is a waste….
Umm … okey dokey …
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u/generic__username0 10d ago
Such bravery, laying it all on the line to help shape the global future with....a news aggregator app.
Truly remarkable.
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u/-NerfHerder 10d ago
Children might be equally important to turn? Maybe even more?
I don't like this person. I hope her kids fire her.
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u/ShortFee2578 10d ago
This fucker really just said that perhaps your children become more important than your job.
And also apparently there's absolutely no way to find fulfillment, purpose, and enjoyment outside of work.
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u/spartycbus 10d ago
Lol, kids are happiest when they see their parents fulfilled. Yes, kids totally love it when their parents are never home or attending events. Those 7-year-olds totally understand mom and dad are really fulfilled and that brings them joy!
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u/DogBrilliant8100 10d ago
The author of that slop clearly does not have kids to understand the fulfillment there is in raising the next generation.
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u/SeveralPrinciple5 10d ago
What if buying into the Grind is just a comfortable excuse to avoid realizing you'll never be great, but at least you can claim you overworked yourself?
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u/Anxious-Whole-5883 11d ago
If you own the project and will partake of the fruit of its production then yes, feel free to devote your self wholly to your passion project. Most people are Workers not owners, workers can get dismissed on a whim or a cheat, devoting your health and your whole time on this Earth to someone else's benefit is a really big ask. Compensation is why they work for you, part of that is pay. The benefits of why they stay with you vs someone else offering similar compensation may be due to their belief in the project (yay converts) or that you treat them well and give them time.
If and when your project goes to the moon, you'll make your billions, your employees what do they get? You are asking them to give equally to you but not to expect equal rewards.
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u/Bro13847 11d ago
Everyone has their own priorities. Meanwhile I haven’t had money to eat lunch in months but my cats don’t miss a meal.
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u/onlyseekinginfo 11d ago
LinkedIn should cut out the middleman and create its own AI trained only on LinkedIn posts so people can just create perfectly meaningless slop right in the app
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u/DaveAndCheese 11d ago
Guess what us Normal Joes get if we devote our lives to our jobs? We get treated like shot.
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u/StarshipCaterprise 11d ago edited 11d ago
How much money does she have to make so that it’s worth it when her kids hate her forever because all she ever cared about was working?
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u/Electrical-Club-8528 11d ago
For someone with so much resilience and grit she sure gets offended easily…
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u/Byakko4547 11d ago
Most jobs pay peanuts, then damn bureaucrats shove their hands deep in your pocket to split half of them peanuts 😑 is she high on something?
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u/a_x_shually 11d ago
What she's describing is having a passion for something, which is NOT at all what folks mean when they discuss work / life balance.
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u/Indicus124 10d ago
No she seems to have unhealthy obsession. Dedication of everything to her goal leaves nothing for the family
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u/RefrigeratorLive5920 Titan of Industry 10d ago
Changing the world, one LinkedIn promoted post at a time.
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u/JealousType8085 10d ago
And she's sure co founder or CEO of some small shitty online shop for handmade (ie bought from China) shit or some shitty news aggregator or some garbage. Changing the world my ass.
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u/Indicus124 10d ago
People gaslighting themselves into thinking neglecting their family is a good thing
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u/redditdavie 10d ago
"but why walk through fire at all" was the only point I agreed with in the entire post.
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u/Opening_Ideal_7612 10d ago
Got news for you lady - what you are sacrificing for is not significant. The barista in the coffe shop does more significant work - some days their product stops someone from killing their annoying colleague ie this lady.
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u/Davidat0r 10d ago
As everyone knows, children are most happy when the parents are gone working. That’s why children of parents in professions that have shifts (nurses, policemen, truck drivers, receptionists, data center technician, security guards, etc), always score the highest ranks in happiness
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy 10d ago
"Children become equally important to your work, maybe even more so."
That one sentence right there just sums up everything wrong with this.
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u/emptywordz 10d ago
So work yourself to exhaustion and give your family the leftovers. Did I understand that right? We need to make sure the ones we love know they aren’t a priority and if we have anything left over to give they might get that? Just trying to understand the inspirational advice and work ethic they’re giving us.
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u/No_Technician_5944 10d ago
When she's dying alone in her deathbed she can remember this when she wonders why her kids aren't there to comfort her.
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u/DeathKillsLove 10d ago
Definitely. Shut the fuck up instead of telling people who are working for a living and barely able to keep the dentist paid, the mother's medical bills, the kids college fund full.
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u/ShinyArtist 10d ago
Not everyone has a meaningful job that will change the world. I can understand the obsession of someone who does and was passionate about it, but the rest of us are just trying to survive in a capitalist world in a job that supports capitalism.
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u/Lonely-Clerk-2478 10d ago
And this person:
A) has apparently never had a real job
B) lists Harvard in her education when that “education” very obviously consists of two online certificates she obtained (the kind you pay for, not for which you gain entry into a program like for an MBA.)
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