Jason Pfeiffer
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203 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Because once you know that, you can start to construct an actual answer. I appreciate it.
I was very proud of it. They're called 419 scams, those Nigerian 419 scams, where somebody emails you and they tell you that there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and all you need to do is help them get there. Their whole thing is to scam you into trusting them so that you will send them money. But this means that this...
asshole wherever they are in the world is also, if you know that they're scamming you, is really now your plaything because you can just create increasingly ridiculous and complicated demands of them. And they'll play along because they think that they're leading you to the scam. And so that's what I did with this guy for who knows how long. He promised me his sister.
But I'm not still in touch with the sister. Let's just be very clear. Yeah. And then I put it all on the Internet and it was a lot of fun. And you're probably the only person in the world who still remembers it. But I am touched that you do.
Yeah. But you know what? I didn't make a single dime off of that thing.
Oh, I didn't sign up for that. All right. Well, talk to you soon.
This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.
And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love. And it starts now.
Well, here's the thing. When you have kids, the first many years of your life as a parent is defined by poop management. And that's just that is the nature of it.
I was actually just thinking about this recently because I have a nine-year-old and I have a five-year-old. And the five-year-old just graduated pre-K and In pre-K, the teacher can't wipe a kid's butt. Kid's got to go wipe his own butt, which means that the kid's got to start doing some wiping. It's probably not very good, but it's a half-assed effort at it.
And so I know that Colin, I know that Colin, I know that you know that, Nicole, but for everyone else, Colin's- I have two kids, Fen and Colin. I know that Colin is developing some skills at wiping his own ass, but I am still wiping his ass at home, and Fen has long since taken care of his own ass. But I was wiping Colin's ass this morning, and I was thinking to myself, will I know...
the last time that I have to do this? And can I capture it? Can I film myself right afterwards running out into the street and being like, I have wiped the last ass, which would make me so happy. I don't know. But that's the thing about parenting is you never really know when you're in or out of something. It's all just a big mush.
Oh, that's happened so many times. Yeah. The one that I thought was funniest was when I was interviewing the CEO of Zoom on Zoom and my kid came in and interrupted us because that was such a classic Zoom moment. Everyone has been on Zoom and had their kids interrupt them. So to do that with the CEO of Zoom was perfect.
But yeah, I'm excited to have this conversation with you today, Nicole, because this has shown up in many of our conversations. And I'm sure I've even made reference to a bunch of this stuff on Help Wanted before, but we've never just looked at it directly. So... This will be fun is talking about what are the challenges of
doing all the things that an ambitious, work-focused person wants to do while also having kids, which is a really hard balance. And I have come to this belief, and I appreciate you recognizing it, that somebody needs to talk about it.
I think that most parents are afraid of talking about it because there is this expectation that parents just love being parents and are grateful for the family and are feeling hashtag blessed. And so much so that I even need to caveat at the beginning of this, like whatever else that I'm going to say during this conversation. I love my kids. They're great kids. But it's really hard.
It's really hard and often very frustrating. And I am constantly thinking about all the things that I could have accomplished differently.
either professionally or even just in the other things that I want for my life personally, the amount of travel that I would love to do that I haven't done, the amount of time that I wish that I could spend with my friends, the way in which just before we were recording this, we were talking about your wedding and how I'm going to fly out from the East Coast to LA and back in the span of less than 24 hours because I really want to be there with you to celebrate and I'm so excited to do it.
But And that's not leisurely. I would love to be there leisurely. I'd love to come out for multiple days. And I can't because I got kids at home. And I think that to bottle that up and to act like that's not attention in my life is to make it worse. And the thing that I have found that makes it better for me is to be open and talk about it.
And what I found is that when I do, some parents get really uncomfortable because I think they're I'm saying things that they had trained themselves not to directly engage with or speak. And then other parents thank me because it's a conversation that almost no one else will start. So I'm here to start it.
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