Excellent post! This pretty much sums up my own experiences. As a cancer survivor, quality of life has become super important to me with my work now, so if I get offered work in environments like I used to work in in my past (loooong hours, bad working conditions), I just turn it down point blank now.

I love what I do, I’m just not prepared to make myself ill (again) doing it. Interestingly my most successful client is one who treats their staff extremely well. In the 4 years I’ve been working with them, they’ve grown from 6 to around 80, sustainably, without VC, and they have the lowest staff turnover of any company I’ve worked with. they go out of their way to make the company a nice place to work, and they really are 9 – 5, crazy late nights are the very rare exception there, which makes a really nice change!

Its good to see you guys doing so well!

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