Good advice - Burn all the bridges you can, and then go off to work on a project that has a mediocre chance of success.
Sorry, but if you follow the advice in this article, you are an asshole.
Sorry, but if you follow the advice in this article, you are an asshole.
Let's say you are talented, make 80 to 100k, work a 60 hour week most weeks, and work as a low to mid level drone at 5,000+ person company. Chances are you can work 40 hours a week for 6 months without getting fired. You are not going to get a significant promotion or pay raise any time soon, but that's fine if you have other goals. And you might find you can do this for several years.
Not enough? Let's say you have 2 weeks of vacation and take one day a week off for 10 weeks, in 10 weeks you will have earned a few extra days, so you can probably do that for ~3 months. If they let you move some hours around you might be able to do that for longer. You might try 4 * 9 + 4 hours of vacation for something like 6 months.
PS: Performing as well as the average office drone takes a lot less effort than you might expect. I would avoid working on you startup while at work, or sleeping at work. But, plenty of people pay their bills or check personal email and do other things that give them more free time at home.
This is equivalent to getting worked up over an Onion story.
I can see tripe like this being on Digg, but why is this on hacker news?