Maybe my reading was too coloured by my own emotions and experiences with the job, and I apologize if so, but continuing my rant I have a real problem with anyone who takes very optional and voluntary hardships on and complains they're hard. Especially when the problems he openly talks about are so in his control. Email, really? Tell me about the times your own board tried to oust you or the funerals you missed for a biz dev meeting that went nowhere and maybe I'll take you seriosly.
It makes me uneccessarily mad to read about sacrifice in privilege. CEOs sometimes want to quit the job? How about grunts on deployment? My paternal grandfather was a military man - wartime general. Never heard him complain but did hear a proud story of when he was a platoon commander in the jungle. If his platoon happened on a mine field he'd stand besides the poor sod tasked with defusing it until the job was done. That's leading. That's grit.
Let's have conversations about mental health and sacrifices, but let's not pretend san francisco tech entrepreneurs leading large successful companies are in a uniquely hard place in life.
It makes me uneccessarily mad to read about sacrifice in privilege. CEOs sometimes want to quit the job? How about grunts on deployment? My paternal grandfather was a military man - wartime general. Never heard him complain but did hear a proud story of when he was a platoon commander in the jungle. If his platoon happened on a mine field he'd stand besides the poor sod tasked with defusing it until the job was done. That's leading. That's grit.
Let's have conversations about mental health and sacrifices, but let's not pretend san francisco tech entrepreneurs leading large successful companies are in a uniquely hard place in life.