This to those who are based in the bay area in california. What is the food situation like? I assume money is super tight and u wanna save any and all the money and time u can so does it all just consist of ordering food and thats it? I assume cooking food cooks too long so is everyone just forced to eat unhealthy doordash food everyday? Or perhaps its worse than than and u literally have to chain yourself to ramen noodles and hotdogs everyday. How healthy can you eat? I would like to work hard on my startup without fucking up my body the most.
TLDR, I wanna eat healthy so do people normally eat? Is maintaining health even possible?
In the mid-2000s I worked for a crappy little startup.
Everyday they would order in the same Chinese food cuz they didn’t want any of the engineers leaving to go out for lunch. While the executive staff would go out to expensive restaurants like Morton’s.
And then at some point they decided to buy like 5,000 fortune cookies for some show, and then they decided to try to encourage the engineers to eat them because they had so many leftover.
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Years later I turned down a job because they had an unlimited candy bar machine in the breakroom, and all I could think to myself is it would be the worst possible job for my health.
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Now to answer your question.
The last startup I worked for it was entirely work from home, and I would just frequently stir fry frozen vegetables and protein and try to limit lunch to 30 minutes.
Unfortunately I’m no longer working because other startup-related health things got me I f***** my hands up too bad during a release and I haven’t been do software development without being in extreme pain. I’m not actually sure I’ll ever recover.
As my coworker would remind me it’s a marathon not a sprint - too late now though.