Adri talks about the importance of having friends who are just as tech-mad as you. I am glad I have mates who are into the Mac and other techno-geekery as I am. Or I will never be able to find friends who can share my excitement about stuff like my Macbillboard desktop, Konfabulator widgets and cool Mac gadgetry.
Excerpt:
If you’re into technology but without many technologically-inclined friends, it can be a terrible and lonely existence, where the moment you begin to swoon over a new product you are told to shut up, and you are physically banned from frothing at the mouth over the latest and the greatest since it induces a “oh yeah, cool I guess” response most of the time.
This is why being immersed in a pool of colleagues who do nothing but talk about the latest and the greatest all day is enough of non-pecuniary benefits to overshadow the fact that you are paid just-below-minumum-wage, just-above-McDonald’s, and is enough to make you choose lower pay/higher benefits over higher pay/3rd world working conditions (at the last restaurant you plied your trade in).
