The only reason to take on a boss again is due to a financial emergency that impacted my family (e.g. a 5 year old child in my care). So yes, I would be a responsible adult and take on a boss if needed, but working for a boss again would only be temporary until I rebounded.
Working for others kills my innovation and kills my motivation. As a physicist and engineer I thrive on plying my craft to X-Prize scale problems that better the human condition. That requires thinking out of the box with no bounds placed on the intellectual enterprise. I have worked for top national laboratories and aerospace companies in my early career. As I look back over the years I have concluded that having a boss is the death of the innovation process. Too many rules! Too much politics! Too many distractions! Not enough concern for bettering and advancing humanity. Too few bosses are willing to step on toes and rock the status-quo boat because what matters to them is a weekly salary and their title NOT achieving a grand dream and changing the world. Of course, statistically there must be some great “boss exceptions", but they are few and far between in my opinion. I hope I am one of them of course…TBD...
Elon Musk put is this way: "I think it's very difficult to start companies, it's quite painful. A friend of mine has a good phrase for doing a startup: it's like eating glass and staring into the abyss. If you are wired to do it, then only do it, not otherwise. So think of it this way - if you need inspiring words, DON'T DO IT!”…and get a job and a boss….
The only reason to take on a boss again is due to a financial emergency that impacted my family (e.g. a 5 year old child in my care). So yes, I would be a responsible adult and take on a boss if needed, but working for a boss again would only be temporary until I rebounded.
Working for others kills my innovation and kills my motivation. As a physicist and engineer I thrive on plying my craft to X-Prize scale problems that better the human condition. That requires thinking out of the box with no bounds placed on the intellectual enterprise. I have worked for top national laboratories and aerospace companies in my early career. As I look back over the years I have concluded that having a boss is the death of the innovation process. Too many rules! Too much politics! Too many distractions! Not enough concern for bettering and advancing humanity. Too few bosses are willing to step on toes and rock the status-quo boat because what matters to them is a weekly salary and their title NOT achieving a grand dream and changing the world. Of course, statistically there must be some great “boss exceptions", but they are few and far between in my opinion. I hope I am one of them of course…TBD...
Elon Musk put is this way: "I think it's very difficult to start companies, it's quite painful. A friend of mine has a good phrase for doing a startup: it's like eating glass and staring into the abyss. If you are wired to do it, then only do it, not otherwise. So think of it this way - if you need inspiring words, DON'T DO IT!”…and get a job and a boss….