For people who want to build something, try new things, and pave the way, they shouldn't hesitate to climb aboard. For people who want to do the same job day in, day out, clock in, clock out, maintain the status quo - probably better to go to a big corporation without any fire in the belly.So I take whatever new status quo is put in place. set by an employee, another "fire in the belly" type of person will change that status quo a few years down the line? It's a revolving door of status quos trying to out do one another.
I guess this is the nature of "fast growing" startups. I wonder if the "fast growing" startups ever fully mature. Probably not. It ain't google, or facebook or youtube. but those places dress like college students -- and most, I bet, are like people in the arts: totally unaware of the real world and just sticking to their startups and art. But hey, they dress in jeans and have laundry (google) at their work.
Or my favorite Con:
LONG HOURS. 8-6 at least, but you are expected to work after hours as well, especially if your territory sucks.
Yes, because people in the medical world and finance world (big corp.) don't work long hours as well. You poor thing. Just ask my friends who are medical interns and my mother. Ask my brother about the hours he worked during certain projects plus some of his co-workers working till midnight - starting at 8:30AM - in accounting. Accounting. But this was at a Big 4 firm, not a startup. Heck, I know an executive personal assistant who had to arrive at her job at 8:30AM and couldn't leave the boss said "You can go now." That was anywhere between 6PM and 8:30PM, easily clocking 50-60 hrs a week. Add in being "on call" on weekends.
Then there's a little light of sanity -
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