Why would anyone with a mortgage and family leave a stable job at a big company to go work for a start-up that has a less than 1% chance of surviving for more than a few years?
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He now smokes a cigar instead of eating a bag of chips, or plans a big weekend getaway to celebrate a work success.
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After passing on an opportunity to work with a big festival in New York, he graduated with his Juris Doctor degree and went to work for a dot-com company in Miami.
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Those doing the work had to shift from being individuals reporting to bosses in accordance with a big plan to having the responsibility and accountability of delivering work as part of a self-organizing team and doing the work in short cycles without interruption from any manager.
"I was preparing to go to work when a big explosion shook my house and broke the glass in all the windows, " Woody Jasim, a resident of Diwaniyah, told Reuters news agency.
And since the Texas Governor doesn't have much power, he had no choice but to build a big coalition, work with the Democrats and generally conduct himself in a way that offered a perfect contrast to the eye gouging going on in Washington.
High-tech workers in America, who forgo big salaries to work at a start-up, gain precious experience as well as options.
So I bought the stupid cables and boasted about my big purchase to a colleague at work the next day.
This is not a conversion from 2D to 3D, but an original work, with a big tip of the cap to MPI, that illustrates just how good 3D can be.
Likewise, Mr. Cowan says that he tries to "build a big fence" around his first work hour in the morning at 7 a.m. to clear his thoughts, catch up on reading and manage email.
"I wanted to come on board and congratulate everyone who's been involved in those hundred tours and to say a big thank you to all those people so work so hard to keep us safe, " he said.
"It has been a privilege and an honour for me to work for such a big club with so many great people, " said Arnesen.
But before I do, I want to give the parents a big round of applause because they work hard to help you succeed, and I know this is their day.
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You may decide, well, the only thing I can do is to work on Wall Street or work in a big corporation that's not doing cutting-edge research.
This is a good option for the adult fan who wants to wear something to work on the casual Friday of a big game weekend.
It hurts because you know every time you go to work a big chunk of your paycheck is being eaten up.
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In addition, I have been able to find related work on the side that adds a big chunk to our yearly income.
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Penn will take a big pay cut to work for the government, but he has committed to at least one or two years in the job, he said.
The recent weaker yen, which will make Sony products cheaper abroad, was almost certain to work as a big plus, and Kato welcomed it.
However, at a time when several surveys show that engagement is at record lows, ignoring how workers feel about coming to work is a big mistake.
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"Little officers or those with too big a belly will be moved to work in offices so they do not come into contact with the public, " Hanoi traffic police chief Col Dao Vinh Tang said.
On starting his course three years ago, his ambition was to work on a big blockbuster title like Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto - but now he's more interested in becoming an indie games producer and join the the "bedroom developer" revolution.
Paris was spared the most uncomfortable experience a big modern city can have, for the water system has continued to work, a very important factor not only in sanitation but morale.
Most of us come to learn to love the work that is necessary in order to achieve a goal, big or small.
For Coates, the hope now is that the sales data from these arrangements will in time be enough to convince the big publishers that lending e-books is a way to grow and that they should work with libraries and not cut them off.
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"I think the Flash (from DC) has the potential to be a big hit, given his rogues' gallery and great years of history to work with, " he said.
Last but not least, by improving the quality of their relationship with citizens, they can make a big difference to the attractiveness of their country, region or city as a place to live and work.
They believe that a small, unrepresentative protest group is trying to make big companies lose their nerve and withdraw from a scheme which allows people up to eight weeks' work experience without losing their benefits (in the past only two weeks was allowed).
Chalk it up to his experience as a big-screen entertainer -- there is no doubt that Estrada knows how to work the crowd.
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