lottery

I was offered the job, took it, and went into the H1B lottery.

>>Anyway, I look at this like the lottery, but in reverse.

Sometimes you lose the reverse lottery and a day of your life gets fucked up.

You've got to sacrifice your 20s and much of your 30s in a haze of work, and the odds are still very slim that you'll win the tenure lottery.

It's like suddenly deciding that lottery tickets are a good investment just because you know someone who won.

Entrepreneurs are PMs, often mediocre ones, and engineers are chumps paid in lottery tickets.

To be honest, being an early employee is a lottery ticket and, generally speaking, a shitty deal.

To talk about traits like intelligence and patience in terms of what they are: winnings in the genetic lottery, rather than as the result of moral virtue.

Even when law school was thought of as a golden ticket, it was a lottery, and to win, you had to sacrifice your personal life for a decade before you made partner.

I almost certainly enjoy life more than I would if I were forced to take an unpleasant job, but there are many other things a person can do to make life enjoyable besides trying to win the startup lottery.

Imagine how the developer community would fare in a lottery system where every API-related claim imaginable were tossed to a jury with prospects for a crap-shoot outcome.

The most unfortunate in India are amongst the most fatalistic - they give up trying - after all, they never won the birth lottery by being born in Europe or the US, or even in a rich home in India - so why hope for social justice?

In the end, unless you are one of the first employees and you happen to hit the lottery and end up at the next billion dollar company, your equity will be worth at or less than most normal bonus packages you'd receive anyway if it's worth anything at all.