As a serial entrepreneur, and therefore employer of many people, I'm pretty horrified to read this. My immediate thought is that it's a toxic attitude, but totally understandable in what is probably the rule rather than the exception, i.e. a 'regular' company. And that's sad.
If you are really feeling as you do, I think it's time to reassess your employment and potentially your life.
For instance, I think many startups are different to this, and not only because they are small. More meaning: the genuine opportunity to enact change, I think is the biggest differentiator, alongside better incentives and stock options that in some cases lead to life-changing financial outcomes. There is always risk with this, and it's a higher risk than a larger company, but that's just the mechanics of life, economics, and society.
I work incredibly long hours, so i'm always 'busy', but for the most part I love what I do, like a passion project. This is because I'm transfixed by cause and effect. It's an amazing thing that I don't think our brains are wired to appreciate by default. It takes discovering this and then confirming it, illustrating that just one person can have disproportionate impact in the world. It seems the vast majority of us limit ourselves or feel a sense of imposter syndrome in our own skin.
The more one realises this and manages to instrument some change, the more positive reinforcement one gets, until one can look back at varying chunks of time in one's life to see the impact that was made. This gives you strong sense of meaning to your life, motivating you to fill your time with high impact activities that have the capacity to genuinely change people's lives, alongside your own. This could includes making time for your family and so on: because in many cases this is an important high impact activity.
After realising this and doing it, the feeling you get with a positive outcome, even if you're still in the middle of doing whatever it is, is better than any drug i've taken.
I don't even have to look at the credits to know who put the video together - https://sandwichvideo.com/
They are f*king awesome and produce the best ads/product videos i've ever seen in my life. Unfortunately extremely expensive (the cost of 2 Ferraris) - unaffordable unless you are a SV startup that has raised $millions :)
PRODUCT MANAGER (SENIOR) | Claimer | London, UK | Full-time | Remote friendly within EU | https://www.claimer.com
Claimer is hiring for its first Product Manager!
Claimer is genuinely disrupting a niche area of fintech - R&D tax credits - which is going to provide us with a springboard to a bigger vision. We are the only tech company in the space so far which means there is massive opportunity. We've grown double digit percentages every quarter since launching in April 2019 on just a pre-seed round, got to profit in Q4 just gone, and will be doing a bigger seed round this quarter to really take things to the next level.
We're looking for an exceptionally talented Product Manager (Senior) to take the product reigns from the CEO (me) on our forthcoming product launch and beyond. We want someone that has worked in a fast-growing early-stage startup before so can hit the ground running. The role will require you to wear all the PM hats initially, before making hires to build out a product team as needed.
Remote friendly with perks, competitive salary of £50-70k (dependant on experience), plus vested share options equivalent to 0.5% of the company (worth 6 figures at current valuation).
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If you know someone that would be a fit let me know - if we hire them we'll pay you £1,000 / $1,350.