On Tue Sep 23 2014 at 8:21:36 PM Mohit <mohitmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24-Sep-2014, at 00:38, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Anecdata: I came back to Corporate America because I was sick > > of dealing with idiots in the non-Corporate sector. > Tell more. >
There really isn't much to tell. Wandering the world for ~4 years, doing odd jobs that kept me afloat I came to understand that the company I kept was very important to me. I realized that I was happiest when I was with intelligent, educated, funny, engaged, passionate nerds. Though I had several such friends (many who are subscribers to silk list) in my peripatetic life, I found that I was lacking this sort of company in my work life. Without very much money in my pocket and thinking that US academia would be a refuge where I could find such intellectually stimulating company I returned to the US (where I had lived and worked before) thinking I would pursue a PhD. A few months of hard soul searching after the return made me realize that, though I loved the company of geeks, I didn't love it enough to live on near-poverty grad student wages for another 5-7 years. I looked around and ended up (after a false start) getting hired at a place where one of the first programmers of tetris, a speed solving champion of the Rubik's cube, several card carrying members of Alcor, a former NASA astronaut, multiple inventors of popular programming languages, singularitarians, small pox eradicators and the like are working (or have worked). > I think they're always there. But just working in non-corporate sector > doesn't equal retirement, does it? > Udhay has already said what I had to say to this question. Thaths
