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Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends.
Jordan Kong
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Jordan Kong
@ImNotJK
building things @paradigm
- Replying to @startupstellaSure! My advice was specifically for those interested in building a career. Like it or not, it's rare to "have it all" in life: career, partner, hobbies, etc.
- Replying to @ImNotJK1/ I’ve worked countless weekends since I started my career 10+ years ago. Just like every other poor immigrant kid who has become successful in tech. Nobody handed us anything — we had to will success.
- 1/ I'm stoked to join @paradigm as Chief of Staff, working with @matthuang, @alanapalmedo, and team to advance crypto's frontier.
- Replying to @ImNotJK6/ And just because I work hard doesn’t mean I don’t live a fulfilling life. I’m happily married to my best friend for the past 7 years. We have an 8-month old daughter who is the light of our lives. ✨
- Replying to @ImNotJK8/ Let me be clear: I have never forced anyone to work weekends. But I’ve never worked with anyone ultra successful who didn’t find so much passion in their work, that they felt the desire to do so.
- This has got to be the most #siliconvalley event agenda. I am pumped for some optional social interaction.
- Replying to @ImNotJK4/ But I wouldn’t trade any of it because the work has brought me tremendous joy and happiness. I outworked my peers to earn opportunities that were typically reserved for white guys who went to Harvard & Stanford — not an introverted, short, nerdy Asian female.
- Replying to @ImNotJK2/ People talk about work feeling like play when done right. In the best of times, this is 💯 true. But even when it was a slog, I still worked my ass off day in, day out. Only quitters quit.
- Replying to @ImNotJK3/ It didn’t come without costs. I gave myself pre-diabetes when working 90+ hr / week in my early 20's. Suffered stress-induced IBS when my first startup went through ups and downs. I’m not saying it’s easy to live this way.
- Replying to @ImNotJK7/ I’ve traveled to 30+ countries. Ate at wonderful restaurants. Hiked Kilimanjaro. (And yes, I read s-1 docs during the ascent because one of our companies was going IPO at the time.)
- Replying to @ImNotJK5/ It’s also why I love working @JoinAtomic. All of our team, founders, and partners works hard, period. Not because we have to, but because we want to. We find tremendous joy in building meaningful businesses that can change the world.
- 1/ Today, we're announcing #FutureFounders Miami: a new program focused exclusively on recruiting top talent to build high-growth and high-impact companies right here in Miami. Why Miami? Read on: atomic.vc/blog/#future-f…
