Is your 9-5 job getting you down? Feeling miserable on Monday mornings? Dreaming a little too frequently about your large office building burning down in a red-hot blaze? Maybe you aren’t meant to be working a conventional job. Here are 9 unmistakable signs that you belong at a startup.
Signs you should work at a startup
1. You simply cannot stand office jargon
“Please utilize synergies while optimizing resources and maintaining a low upper bound on the headcount”
2. You don’t need a suit and tie to be productive
“Would you wear brown shoes with black pants?”
3. You get your best work done at night
..the daytime sun can be a bitch on my delicate skin.
4. You work well under pressure
..just figuring out how to raise $1 million in venture capital by tomorrow evening
5. Jugaad runs in your blood
“Of course we have a registered office!”
6. You hate being micromanaged
“Please have these files at my desk by 2 pm. And place them in the top left corner, in decreasing order of the colours of the visible spectrum”
7. In fact, you might be a bit of a rebel at heart
“No, I shall place them in increasing order of the colours of the visible spectrum”
8. You hate feeling like a part of a crowd
“Repeat after me: We are all different”
9. You want to change the world
..and the Ferrari isn’t going to buy itself
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