Joel Kim Booster

I think like, especially early day startup culture was very, like Groupon in Chicago mostly only hired comedians and actors and creatives.

especially because I worked in customer service and customer ops.

And their motto was the more successful you are outside of this place, the more successful we are, which makes no sense.

The more successful I am outside of this place, the closer I am to leaving this place.

But I was happy that that was their attitude.

And that was pretty much all of my boss's attitudes in startup world was, we want you to take office.

I have never had a day job where there was a set number of vacation days.

Every tech startup I worked for had unlimited vacation days.

And I was able to take off weeks at a time to go and work on a project or something like that.

and then come back to a job and have benefits and all that.

So it never felt like it impeded anything for me until it got to the point where I was sort of watershed moment, keep the job or quit the job and really dive headfirst and take a chance on myself.

So up until that point, I always felt very like free.

I was constantly, I mean, every script I wrote in that period I wrote, you know, I would spend six hours a day writing and two hours a day doing actual work.

Cause that's the thing about,

corporate jobs, tech jobs is it's all any email based job is a joke.

It's just a straight up joke.

I never had to work very hard and would constantly get promoted.

Um, because by, and, and that's the thing is you learn is the more you get promoted in those sorts of environments, the less work you're asked to do.

Um, so all of these guys who get up to the C-suite, like I, I've seen firsthand how little work they do.

And I know firsthand how little work you have to do to get by at a job like that.