... Because Some People Can Never Work For Others.
I hope you read this story from the Sunday Business section of the NY Times because, if you did, you may feel grateful that you have better work / life balance than Some People featured on the first page above the fold. Observe:
If you give him $750,000, he says, you can have a stake in what he believes will be a $1-billion-a-year company.
Interested? Before you answer, consider that the man displays many of the symptoms of a person having what psychologists call a hypomanic episode. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — the occupation’s bible of mental disorders — these symptoms include grandiosity, an elevated and expansive mood, racing thoughts and little need for sleep.
“Elevated” hardly describes this guy. To keep the pace of his thoughts and conversation at manageable levels, he runs on a track every morning until he literally collapses. He can work 96 hours in a row. He plans to live in his office, crashing in a sleeping bag. He describes anything that distracts him and his future colleagues, even for minutes, as “evil.”
He is 21 years old. [the rest of the story]
I think I worked for someone like this, once. As I recall, it didn't end well, for him.
