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		virgilp on Nov 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like? You need to make decisions in a high-uncertainty environment. If you care about your work... it's much more stressful to have actual decision power than to have none and just vent with your colleagues about how bad the top-level decisions are.

Redoubts on Nov 27, 2019 [–]

Sorry, that just sounds like the opposite of boring to me.

virgilp on Nov 27, 2019 | [–]

I wasn't debating the "interesting" part, I was debating the "I wouldn't call that stressful" one.

Redoubts on Nov 27, 2019 | | [–]

That’s great, and I just don’t see a stress dimension here.

-e- especially the necessarily stressful part of this role.

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